Divide and Conquer: Detecting and Tracking Passive RFID Tags in Retail Spaces

Naor Zohar

doi:10.1109/wcnc51071.2022.9771839

Divide and Conquer: Detecting and Tracking Passive RFID Tags in Retail Spaces

Naor Zohar

Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science (Oranim Campus)

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Abstract

Detecting and tracking items marked with passive RFID tags are essential in modern retail stores, in which the RFID tags are used for inventory control and checkout-free shopping. In many retail stores, passive RFID tags replace traditional bar codes for payment processing and inventory control. Since the typical operational distance of RFID readers for most practical cases is very short (about several feet), to cover the entire store, there is a need for several RFID readers for large retail stores. The issue addressed in this paper is the optimal placement of RFID readers, which provides full coverage of a given entire space, subject to cost, delay, and load balance constraints, using a minimal number of RFID readers. Using the "divide and conquer"strategy, several coverage schemes are introduced and analyzed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1443-1448
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665442664
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc51071.2022.9771839
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022 - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Apr 2022 → 13 Apr 2022

Publication series

Name	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume	2022-April
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511

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Conference	2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/04/22 → 13/04/22

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.

Keywords

Checkout-free shopping
IoT
Passive RFID tags

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering

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Zohar, N. (2022). Divide and Conquer: Detecting and Tracking Passive RFID Tags in Retail Spaces. In 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022 (pp. 1443-1448). (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2022-April). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc51071.2022.9771839

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Zohar, N 2022, Divide and Conquer: Detecting and Tracking Passive RFID Tags in Retail Spaces. in 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, vol. 2022-April, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1443-1448, 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022, Austin, United States, 10/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc51071.2022.9771839

Divide and Conquer: Detecting and Tracking Passive RFID Tags in Retail Spaces. / Zohar, Naor.
2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 1443-1448 (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2022-April).

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