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Sensors 2011, 11, 7004-7021; doi:10.3390/s110707004 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Energy Efficient In-network RFID Data Filtering Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks Ali Kashif Bashir, Se-Jung Lim, Chauhdary Sajjad Hussain and Myong-Soon Park * Department of Computer and Radio Communication Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Korea; E-Mails: alik@korea.ac.kr (A.K.B.); limsejung@korea.ac.kr (S.-J.L.); Sajjad@korea.ac.kr (C.S.H.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: myongsp@korea.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-02-3290-3568; Fax: +82-02-953-0771. Received: 15 March 2011; in revised form: 23 June 2011 / Accepted: 25 June 2011 / Published: 6 July 2011 Abstract: RFID (Radio frequency identification) and wireless sensor networks are backbone technologies for pervasive environments. In integration of RFID and WSN, RFID data uses WSN protocols for multi-hop communications. Energy is a critical issue in WSNs; however, RFID data contains a lot of duplication. These duplications can be eliminated at the base station, but unnecessary transmissions of duplicate data within the network still occurs, which consumes nodes’ energy and affects network lifetime. In this paper, we propose an in-network RFID data filtering scheme that efficiently eliminates the duplicate data. For this we use a clustering mechanism where cluster heads eliminate duplicate data and forward filtered data towards the base station. Simulation results prove that our approach saves considerable amounts of energy in terms of communication and computational cost, compared to existing filtering schemes. Keywords: RFID data filtering; energy-efficiency in WSN; in-network data processing; integration of RFID with WSN; redundant readers 1. Introduction The next revolution in computing technology is the widespread use of small wireless computing and communication devices that will integrat