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Integrating the EPCIS and Building Automation
System into Nam
Ky Giang1+, Janggwan Im2, Daeyoung
Kim2, Markus Jung3, and Wolfgang Kastner3 1University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea {limg00n, kimd}@kaist.ac.kr 3Vienna
University of Technology, Vienna, Austria {mjung, k}@auto.tuwien.ac.at Abstract The Electronic
Product Code Information System (EPCIS) is a state of the art information
system for tracking and monitoring the lifecycle of physical objects based on
RFID technology. Low-cost passive RFID tags are replacing traditional
barcodes for physical object identification and are heavily used within
logistics and trade. They are an essential aspect of identifying physical
objects, therefore an integration into the IoT is required. This paper
presents a concept, which defines how the EPCIS can be integrated into the
IoT extending it to a so called Smart Thing Information System (STIS). The
integration follows a two-fold approach. On the one side, the information of
the EPCIS is made available for IoT devices and services, by providing a
lightweight query interface. On the other side, the information of non-RFID
related devices, such as sensors and actuators of home and building
automation systems (BAS) are made available to EPCIS. Thus, a seamless
integration with building automation systems is possible. The extended system
embraces interoperability by resting upon standards such as OBIX and CoAP. We
present a case study using a globally testbed that demonstrates the
feasibility of the proposed system extension. In addition, a performance
analysis is carried out that investigates the scalability impacts and limits
of the STIS new interfaces as well as the gateway for BAS. Keywords: EPCIS, STIS, Building Automation System, IoT architecture +: Corresponding author: Nam Ky Giang Room x509 ICICS
Building, 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4, Tel:
+1-778-322-2539, Journal of
Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications
(JoWUA), Vol. 6, No. 1,
pp. 56-73, March 2015 [pdf] |