Patent ID: 8299898

Claim:
An apparatus for managing a plurality of RFID readers having different frequency bandwidths, the apparatus comprising: a service policy managing unit that defines demands which are desired by a user or an application service as service policies to be understood by the plurality of RFID readers, the service polices including conditions and actions corresponding to the conditions; a data processing rule managing unit that generates a data processing rule and a relation analyzing rule on the basis of the service policies; a collected data processing unit that receives a plurality of RFID tag data from the plurality of RFID readers, integrates a first portion of the plurality of RFID tag data in accordance with the data processing rule to generate a first integrated RFID event, and integrates a second portion of the plurality of RFID tag data in accordance with the data processing rule to generate a second integrated RFID event; a service information generator that analyzes a correlation between the first integrated RFID event and the second integrated RFID event in accordance with the relation analyzing rule to generate service information; and a service report processing unit that provides a service report based on the service information generated from the service information generator.