Energy-Efficient Integration of WSNs with Active RFID Systems

Abstract

Pervasive network nodes will be the foundation of Future Internet Systems. The main aim of this paper is to present a method for integrating wireless sensor networks with active RFID technology, in order to create pervasive network nodes that are aware of their features and are capable of advertising these features in a standard manner. The authors propose an energy-efficient approach to this technological challenge. They provide a proof-of-concept implementation of the presented integration method, thus demonstrating its performance (in terms of energy consumption) and its flexibility.