Enhancing and providing security via RFID and Location sensing

Abstract

The proposed work is based on a current technological advancement that enables many RFID tags with low-cost sensing capabilities. Various types of sensors have been incorporated with many RFID tag. Intel’s Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a representative example of a sensor-enabled tag, which extends RFID beyond simple identification to in-depth sensing. This new generation of RFID devices can facilitate numerous promising applications for ubiquitous sensing and computation. They also suggest new ways of providing security and privacy services by leveraging the unique properties of the physical environment or physical status of the tag (or its owner). In this system, we specifically focus on the design of context aware security primitives and protocols by utilizing sensing technologies so as to provide improved protection against unauthorized reading and relay attacks.