Reference Architecture for Event-Driven RFID Applications

RFID technology is usually not well integrated with business processes and backend enterprise information systems. Current enterprise information systems cannot deal with high volume of events and their complex dependencies. In this paper we propose a reference architecture for event-driven RFID applications. The key concept of the approach is complex event processing as the model for processing and managing of event-driven information systems. In order to prove the practical usefulness of the reference architecture we present a case study for tracking samples in large research laboratories using RFID.