A Conjunctive Middleware Adaptation of Active and Passive RFID Techonologies

RFID technology has been split into two branches. Active RFID and passive RFID behave in very different manners, yet the theory behind them is practically the same. If the two branches were able to be merged into use under a single software system, then a number of use cases can be made that mitigate each technology's weakness with the other. The only major obstacle to using them interchangeably is the lack of a standard messaging system. Since we can't create a standard for industry, we plan on using a middleware to translate to our own standard.Ramachandran, Umakishore - Faculty Mentor ; Kumar, Rajnish - Committee Member/Second Reade