While of increasing importance for the real-time enterprise,
deployments of Internet of Things infrastructures such as
RFID remain complex and expensive. In this paper, we il-
lustrate these challenges by studying the applications of the
EPC Network which is an RFID standards framework that
aims to facilitate interoperability and application develop-
ment. We show how the use of blueprints that were suc-
cessful on the Web can help to make the adoption of these
standards less complex. We discuss in particular how Cloud
Computing, RESTful interfaces, Real-time Web (Websock-
ets and Comet) and Web 2.0 Mashups can simplify ap-
plication development, deployments and maintenance in a
common RFID application. Our analysis also illustrates
that RFID/EPC Network applications are an excellent play-
ground for Web of Things technologies and that further re-
search in this field can significantly contribute to making
real-world applications less complex and cost-intensive.