Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Software Engineering Group
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This master thesis is hosted at the University of Fribourg, but is proposed and supervised by both Dr. Patrik Fuhrer (University of Fribourg - Switzerland) and Dominique Guinard (ETH Zürich - Switzerland).
Thus, this project is collaboration and a joint effort between the two following research groups:
In the Internet of Things world, the EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Server) is the standard information server
for RFID events. The EPCIS standard was mainly targeted towards "big enterprise applications". Thus, building applications
on top of it as well as exploring the RFID events it contains is not trivial.
Following the trends of Web 2.0 Mashups, in this project we propose building a novel RESTful version of an EPCIS, that would
enable RFID-based mashups. Such a solution would for instance enable people to browse RFID observations as they would browse
web pages. Furthermore, it would enable client to query the EPCIS and subscribe to EPC events through simple Web requests on
URLs and get the notifications in RSS feeds.
In this project you will design and develop a RESTful interface for the Fosstrak EPC Information Server (Fosstrak),
an open-source implementation of the standard. Fosstrak was founded by ETH Zurich's Distributed Systems Group
and, with the help of numerous of our students, has grown into today's most comprehensive open-source RFID platform that is compliant with
the EPC Network specifications developed by the EPCglobal non-profit organization.
Additionally, the student will be asked to build a mobile prototype (iPhone,
Android or Nokia) to demonstrate the use
of this new interface.
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