RFID Event Specification Using Templates in Scenic and Event Notification

Scenic is a program that allows the user to graphically specify an event to be detected by the RFID Ecosystem in the Paul G. Allen Center at the University of Washington. The user drags icons representing people, places, items and “event primitives” [5]. In this paper we discuss how Scenic has been extended to (1) save and recall an event definition, (2) edit previously created events, and (3) create event templates. Notifier is a new program we created that allows the user to subscribe to notification for an event that they have created using Scenic. The user enters contact information such as an email or a phone number and specifies which method to use to be notified when the event occurs. The system monitors the readings from the RFID Ecosystem and when it has detected that the event has occurred, it sends out a notification via the specified medium.