One Reason to believe that you need RFID Middleware

Imagine you have tagged items in an inventory store and you have just an application without a powerful middleware.....

The number of tagged items at the store = 1 Billion an year

Assume your data size in the tag is = 10 bytes approximately

Total Tag data size = 1 billion X 10 bytes = 10 billion bytes = 10 GB

In a day if such data is stored in the database for 4 times(in the worst case) = 10 GB X 4 = 40 GB

For an year the data to be processed. 40 GB X 365 = 14600 GB neary 14.6 TB

In a mid-sized inventory store if the amount of data that needs to be processed is nearly equating to 15 TB (if not stored fully). More over the additional processing requried if we take other data relating to item other than unique ID should be taken into consideration before any solution actually trying to provide the business data visibility.  The challenge is just not only the volume of data to be processed, but the volume of RFID readers from where this data is coming in, robustness required to simultaneously deal with these readers. Also the life cycle status management of all these readers can only happen through a powerful RFID middleware.