Similarity Search for Trajectories of RFID Tags in Supply Chain Traffic

Abstract

In this fast developing period the use of RFID have become more significant in many application domaindue to drastic cut down in the price of the RFID tags. This technology is evolving as a means of tracking objects and inventory items. One such diversified application domain is in Supply Chain Management where RFID is being applied as the manufacturers and distributers need to analyse product and logistic information in order to get the right quantity of products arriving at the right time to the right locations. Usually the RFID tag information collected from RFID readers is stored in remote database and the RFID data is being analyzed by querying data from this database based on path encoding method by the property of prime numbers. In this paper we propose an improved encoding scheme that encodes the flows of objects in RFID tag movement. A Trajectory of moving RFID tags consists of a sequence of tagsthat changes over time. With the integration of wireless communications and positioning technologies, the concept of Trajectory Database has become increasingly important, and has posed great challenges to the data mining community.The support of efficient trajectory similarity techniques is indisputably very important for the quality of data analysis tasks in Supply Chain Traffic which will enable similar product movements.