“Design middleware architecture for mobile discovery of passive tags”

Abstract

Rwanda is among the developing countries in Africa facing the challenges of not having the enough resources of technology leading to met some difficulties in their service delivery for instance Rwanda revenue authority is a government institution with the responsibilities of providing income to the government like other institutions through taxing the products produced by different various internal organizations or companies and others that are imported from external organization, the works of checking and look for tax or charging penalties when necessary has proved to be difficult because the system that is used is not satisfying the needs of both customers who are responsible for paying taxes and Rwanda revenue authority employees themselves, some of the employees you find them with no tools for checking whether the products are illegally or legally produced and sold based on the tag attached on it, this is very difficult to understand because of using the local systems of looking on the product by their eyes others use the glasses and another system is by use of radio frequency identification reader, computer and scanner or printer, this system proves out the reality but with the limitation of being fixed not being anywhere. This research aimed to design a new architecture that would facilitate the Rwanda revenue authority employees in decision making capacity through providing the reality of the electronic product code or information of the tag by passing the smart phone over the tagged product and eventually the middleware software installed and configured in the mobile phone senses the tag by sending the electromagnetic waves to trigger or charge the tag, establish the connection and therefore read the information from the tagged product in addition to the above giving the users the chance to take the decision based on the information obtained. The system would use the smart phone and middleware software to capture data, store data, and manage data just by the use of the mobile phone therefore providing the portability and flexibility factors meaning that it would be simple to understand and use since it is installed in the mobile phones and most people are familiar with them and it would suit anywhere since it is embedded in the mobile tool.