Monitoring wildlife conservation using networked RFID for secure positioning

Abstract

As RFID systems are becoming more common in many application areas, managing the associated privacy and security concerns has become an important part of our lives. Although there are many RFID-based monitoring schemes, current solutions for target tracking and reminding either lack needed functionality or are much too costly to be used. A new model for secure positioning in networked RFID systems is introduced, and a novel identification protocol based on distance-bounding protocols for target tracking is proposed. By integration the above model and protocol with Wireless Sensor Networks, the classical approach in which all RFID distance-bounding protocols make reader infer an upper bound of distance to the tag is avoided. On the same time, the tag deduces the distance to the reader with WSNs. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.