Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v9i1.154
An information-centric and REST-based approach for EPC Information Services
Federica Paganelli
; National Interuniversity the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy
Stefano Turchi
; Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139, Italy
Lorenzo Bianchi
; Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139, Italy
Lucia Ciofi
; Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139, Italy
Maria Chiara Pettenati
; ICON Foundation, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Franco Pirri
; Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139, Italy
Dino Giuli
; Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50139, Italy
Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) techniques are considered relevant building blocks for the Internet of Things. The interoperability across different RFID software and hardware infrastructures is a key requirement for achieving effective and wide-scale Internet of Thing deployments. In this context, the EPC Information Service (EPCIS) is a set of standard specifications for sharing RFID-related data (i.e., EPC events) both within and across enterprises. Although the EPCIS specifies a set of HTTP and Web Service interfaces for querying and adding EPC events, interoperability and easiness of use is hindered by the fact that client applications should be aware of the repositories that are authoritative for one or more given queries and links among related events are not explicitly represented in response messages. In this paper we argue that, by leveraging emerging REST and Linked Data paradigms, EPC events can be handled as a graph of globally-addressable information resources that can be navigated, queried, and aggregated through a uniform interface and seamlessly across organization domains. To validate this approach, we have developed a prototype that exposes the EPCIS interfaces as a set of REST APIs. The prototype implementation exploits the information modeling and management capabilities provided by a framework, called InterDataNet (IDN), that we conceived and developed to ease the realization of the Web of Data and Linked Data applications.
Keywords
Web Services; Representational State Transfer; RFID; EPC; Linked Data; HTTP; Web of Data
Hrčak ID:
180082
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Publication date:
22.3.2013.
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