The document discusses the OW2 Aspire RFID project. It aims to develop open-source, privacy-friendly middleware for Internet of Things applications using RFID and sensor technologies. The project seeks to lower barriers to entry and costs for small businesses to utilize RFID. It will deliver a lightweight, standards-compliant middleware platform and validate it through RFID trials. The platform integrates RFID, sensors and other technologies to enable new applications while protecting privacy.

1. OW2 Aspire RFID
@ fOSSA 2010
Toward FOSS & Privacy-friendly
IoT Middleware
Didier Donsez
Université Joseph Fourier
PolyTech’ Grenoble - LIG / Adèle
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RFID Everywhere
The first wave of the Internet of Things
Identify everything!
Readers everywhere!
OW2 Aspire RFID
NFC phones Nabztag/tag
Store portals RFID tunnel Over 47.000.000 Over 200.000
Reader for pickin
in Japan
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Trends #1
From warehouse to EC mass market
NFC phones
RFID tunnel
10^6 10^9
OW2 Aspire RFID
RFID handset
Nabztag/tag
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Trends #2
Exploit sensors measurements in applications
Environmental sensors (scattered in warehouses, containers, you …)
Sensors embedded in the tagged object (ie data loggers in BAT)
Location Measurement Audio-Video
[temperature], [humidity], [pressure],
[timestamp],[position], [image stream],
[weight], [distance], [accel.], [shock],
[symbolicPos], [cellID] … [snapshot] …
[ECG], [O2], [CO2], …
OW2 Aspire RFID
Examples
Cold chain, Fragil shipping, Smart trash, …
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The Privacy (invasion) syndrome
May be a brake to large scale acceptation (then deployment)
OW2 Aspire RFID
Big brother is scanning you ! From [Ari Juels 05] 5
Image http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com/wiki/Image:BigBrother.jpg

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The privacy-friendly society:
Fundamentals
Privacy-friendly software
Object data
Privacy-friendly tags
Personal data
Privacy-friendly
Certification Consumer
OW2 Aspire RFID
programmes FOSS is awareness
auditable/certifiable
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Toward IoT middlewares
Real World IT World
©DidierCodes
Bar Donsez
~ 1 TeraHit
Sensor ONS per day
authentication,
RFID Event
Identification,
Object Nanimg Service
tracking
[ObjectId],
Smart Card [timestamp],
contact,contactless
Activation
measurements WMS, MES, ERP …
Buttons, Keys…
Sensor Sensor
Event Reporting
Data
GPS Mediation Warehouse
[timestamp],[position]
Export
Time
IoT Middleware Publish
Measure
Measurement is running on
OW2 Aspire RFID
[position],
[temperature],
[humidity],[pressure],
[weight] … 10^4 – 10^6 grid or cloud
low edge « edges » of high-end servers
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Initiatives in IoT Middleware
Hundreds of *ML formats/API
More or less FOSS
EPC Globaltarget the supply chain)
Supply chain (open loop)
GUID-oriented
NFC Forum
Cell phones market
Content-oriented
KML (Google Maps)
(GPS)GeoPosition-oriented
EEML (JPachube)
OW2 Aspire RFID
Sensors data streams
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The ASPIRE FP7 Project
Research project funded by EU
FP7 ICT-215417
Leaders: Neeli Prasad (Adm.) & John Soldatos (Tech.)
Timeframe: 01/01/2008 – 31/12/2010
10 partners (companies and academics)
Aalborg University – CtiF, Denmark
INRIA (ObjectWeb, POPS), France
Université Joseph Fourier – Grenoble University – LIG Laboratory, France
Research and Education Laboratory in Information Technologies – Athens
Information Technology, Greece
Melexis technologies SA MELE, Switzerland
Open Source Innovation Ltd OSI UK
UEAPME, Belgium
OW2 Aspire RFID
Sensap S.A, Greece
Pole Traceability Valence, France
Instituto Telecomunicações IT, Portugal
http://www.fp7-aspire.eu/
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The ASPIRE FP7 Project
Overview and Goals
Significantly lower the SME entry cost barrier
and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for RFID Enable RFID scenarios (based on
technology solutions: ASPIRE middleware and added
• Free Middleware running on Low-cost
hardware
value sensors) that improve
• Lower effort for managing the business results
infrastructure and developing applications
ASPIRE
Develops and will deliver a lightweight, royalty-free, programmable, privacy -
friendly, standards-compliant, scalable, integrated and intelligent
middleware platform
OW2 Aspire RFID
Validate the above
developments in RFID trials
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ASPIRE RFID @ OW2
http://wiki.aspire.objectweb.org
OW2 project
Leaders: Nikos Kefalakis, John Soldatos & Didier Donsez
Targets non-trivial RFID-based applications
FOSS SW
RFID/Sensor Middleware
RFID/Sensor Apps Tools
RFID/Sensor Applications samples
Compliances
with standards (EPCGlobal, NFCForum, …)
with legacies (1D/2D barecods, …) and proprietary (iButtons, …)
Extensions
Sensors (temp., shock occur., geoloc, video streams, …)
and BAT (Zigbee, 6LoWPAN, 433Mhz, …)
Surveys and BEG
OW2 Aspire RFID
Namespace: org.ow2.aspirerfid
Licence: LGPL v2.1 and CC by-sa
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Architecture
30000 ft view
Customer
Customer
ONS Warehouse
(DNS) HTTP SOAP
ALE light
F&C
Web
2.0 HTTP SOAP
HTTP HTML
RMI
BlueTooth
ALE
F&C
sensors
Other
BEG
EPC ISs
(Aspire,
EPC IS Serial,
(JavaEE) Bluetooth,
ALE
OW2 Aspire RFID
Fostrack, …) RFID
…
Corporate F&C Readers
Headquarter
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Detailled Architecture
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Demos
@ 2010 Village
Customer info @ POS, @Fair,
In-vitro Supply chain demo @Museum, @Park …
i.e. EPC Global’ vision of RFID Patient @ Home, Elder @ Home
Professionals : Inventory,
Maintenance, Picking …
i.e. NFC Forum’ vision of RFID
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Q&R
OW2 Aspire RFID
http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org http://www.fp7-aspire.eu/
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