A Novel Approach to Provide Mobile RFID-Based Services Combined with Data Mining Technique

摘要

In advance of RFID technology, various types of services based on mobile RFID technology have been developed. However, there still exists limitation on RFID-based services such as transferring the simple information of exhibits at exhibition halls or managing the exhibits stored in warehouses. In order to improve the service qualities at exhibition centers, showrooms, or museums, we have developed a system, which can provide the disruptive services using mobile RFID technology. Our system accumulates the information such as how many people visit a specific exhibit, what the demographic information the visitors have, and what kinds of items the visitors see, and so on whenever visitors read a tag on an exhibit with an RFID reader connected to a mobile device. The accumulated information is stored in a database to provide an efficient search service and to bring a better service to the visitors. We have developed an application program for analyzing the visitors' data retrieval pattern from the database. Using this program, our system can get the information about the movement paths of the visitors. Also, by adopting data mining technology, we also propose a novel approach to enhance RFID-based services so that visitors can have a customized real-time question-answering service from assistants in a certain exhibition hall or museum whenever they are intrigued to know about exhibits.