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An enhanced track-and-trace system will allow organizations to make sense of supply-chain and life-cycle information.
By Mark Harrison
When networked RFID systems such as the EPCglobal network are fully deployed, organizations will be able to gather detailed information about the location and status of their products tagged with unique IDs. They will also be able to share some information about these products with partners through information services such as Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS). And they could make some of the information available to others through Discovery Services, restricted search engines that can be accessed by authorized users.
The next challenge is to provide a way to enable organizations to make good use of supply-chain and life-cycle information to help them manage daily operations. At the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab, we are developing an enhanced track-and-trace system as part of the EU BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency Identification Solutions for the Global Environment) project, a joint venture with 30 partners from 12 countries.
First, we gathered event data from across the supply chain or product life cycle, making queries to multiple EPCIS and Discovery Services. This could involve iterative queries when changes occur—for example, when a case is loaded into a container or bulk products are broken down into smaller units.
When networked RFID systems such as the EPCglobal network are fully deployed, organizations will be able to gather detailed information about the location and status of their products tagged with unique IDs. They will also be able to share some information about these products with partners through information services such as Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS). And they could make some of the information available to others through Discovery Services, restricted search engines that can be accessed by authorized users.
The next challenge is to provide a way to enable organizations to make good use of supply-chain and life-cycle information to help them manage daily operations. At the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab, we are developing an enhanced track-and-trace system as part of the EU BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency Identification Solutions for the Global Environment) project, a joint venture with 30 partners from 12 countries.
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