Introducing a novel “virtual communication channel” into RFID ecosystems for IoT

Purpose of this paper is to illustrate an innovative method to exploit an "RFID virtual channel" in future RFID ecosystems. Specifically, it describes a technique that allows groups of RFID readers to use the residual User Memory Bank (UM Bank) of nearby RFID tags to establish a piconet and to exchange data. The implications of such a use are extremely interesting in a perspective of future IoT applications designed for environments with a massive presence of conventional RFID tags and/or (EPCglobal compliant) sensorized RFID tags.