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Part 3: RFID in Healthcare
Physical Markup Language: Projected Evolution
Physical Markup Language (PML), for example, is a standard that helps in defining properties of the object. For the consumption of products and services and the creation of internal solutions, using open standards can decrease your costs, speed time-to-market, expand available options for communicating with various systems and utilize resources by using existing and available applications based on open standards. Using open standards in the products services and internal applications you produce, will increase adoption, market acceptance of solutions and lower market barriers through decreased customer risk. An open standard also allows you to participate in faster growing markets. Combining every aspect covered in this paper, one can achieve more efficient and cost effective results by deploying RFID at a micro-modular level and then uses the "meeting in the middle" approach through open standards.
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The adoption of Physical mark up language may take a while before it is accepted world wide as a commonly agreed upon standard language. Figure 6 in this section explains the authors’ views on the PML Standards and its evolution for vertical industry standards and divisions within that vertical industry i.e. P1 (P, Procedure) associated within that division for the healthcare industry. Vertical Industries will have to get together to agree upon a common format of language or structure or both. However, given the implementation of suggested vertical industry standard approach within the EPC standards through the extended PML constructs, seamless computing with interactions between industries could become easier. In fact, RFID merges the IT Industry with all the other functions within industries and across all industries.
Productivity will increase industry interactions and expand business to other vertical industries with these governed standards in place. Open standards will yield a better return on investment, as vendors will not have to comply with proprietary standards for communication.
As explained in Figure 6, these OVSs (open vertical standards) will attach to the main PML standard to define the vertical industry. The Industry OVS can have an attachment to its standard for a division or an open vertical standard division (PML.OVS.DIVISION1). The division OVSD than can have an attachment to it’s standard for the end product or service or an open vertical standard division product (PML.OVS.DIVISION1.PRODUCT1). All these attachments will tie back to the EPCglobal PML standards.
This means that there will be relatively low investments because multiple providers are brought into the picture. There would not be a need to invest more resources in terms of time and money to comply with proprietary standards. The systems would work with any vendor, without any changes, as long as they are complying with the open standards.
A Hardware Resolution
“We believe another part of the solution to open vertical standards is found in the hardware construction of the EPC tag. In a discussion with one of our reviewers, revealed that using a tag having 256 bits, of which 128bits are dedicated to the EPC Code, there would be an additional 128bits remaining to define industry, division and product specifications within that industry.” —Liz Churchill, Director of Life Sciences Solutions for RFID systems provider Matrics
In a Perfect World
A perfect world would have an open source code so that there would be no proprietary capturing of knowledge. Great progress would be made by having the same common language and standards so all companies could develop their best product knowing that it would work with any other product. Crossbow Technology, a provider of sensor network technology, is one company trying to make this world a reality. One of Crossbow’s main supporters is Intel.
Crossbow has its programs in Tiny OS, an open source extendable and scalable platform. It is in the process of developing an out-of-the-box solution that is a customizable interface (GUI) middleware application on its tiny RFID readers, which the company calls motes. A single board Linux computer, known as the “Stargate,” powers the whole system. Sam Godwin, Crossbow’s VP of sales and marketing, believes that the mote (reader) will be the future middleware of the RFID system, interfacing to the backbone of the ERP application software.
Sam Godwin predicts that within two years these intelligent motes (readers) will sell for about $10 each.
Physical Markup Language (PML), for example, is a standard that helps in defining properties of the object. For the consumption of products and services and the creation of internal solutions, using open standards can decrease your costs, speed time-to-market, expand available options for communicating with various systems and utilize resources by using existing and available applications based on open standards. Using open standards in the products services and internal applications you produce, will increase adoption, market acceptance of solutions and lower market barriers through decreased customer risk. An open standard also allows you to participate in faster growing markets. Combining every aspect covered in this paper, one can achieve more efficient and cost effective results by deploying RFID at a micro-modular level and then uses the "meeting in the middle" approach through open standards.
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Click here to enlarge image.
The adoption of Physical mark up language may take a while before it is accepted world wide as a commonly agreed upon standard language. Figure 6 in this section explains the authors’ views on the PML Standards and its evolution for vertical industry standards and divisions within that vertical industry i.e. P1 (P, Procedure) associated within that division for the healthcare industry. Vertical Industries will have to get together to agree upon a common format of language or structure or both. However, given the implementation of suggested vertical industry standard approach within the EPC standards through the extended PML constructs, seamless computing with interactions between industries could become easier. In fact, RFID merges the IT Industry with all the other functions within industries and across all industries.
Productivity will increase industry interactions and expand business to other vertical industries with these governed standards in place. Open standards will yield a better return on investment, as vendors will not have to comply with proprietary standards for communication.
As explained in Figure 6, these OVSs (open vertical standards) will attach to the main PML standard to define the vertical industry. The Industry OVS can have an attachment to its standard for a division or an open vertical standard division (PML.OVS.DIVISION1). The division OVSD than can have an attachment to it’s standard for the end product or service or an open vertical standard division product (PML.OVS.DIVISION1.PRODUCT1). All these attachments will tie back to the EPCglobal PML standards.
This means that there will be relatively low investments because multiple providers are brought into the picture. There would not be a need to invest more resources in terms of time and money to comply with proprietary standards. The systems would work with any vendor, without any changes, as long as they are complying with the open standards.
A Hardware Resolution
“We believe another part of the solution to open vertical standards is found in the hardware construction of the EPC tag. In a discussion with one of our reviewers, revealed that using a tag having 256 bits, of which 128bits are dedicated to the EPC Code, there would be an additional 128bits remaining to define industry, division and product specifications within that industry.” —Liz Churchill, Director of Life Sciences Solutions for RFID systems provider Matrics
In a Perfect World
A perfect world would have an open source code so that there would be no proprietary capturing of knowledge. Great progress would be made by having the same common language and standards so all companies could develop their best product knowing that it would work with any other product. Crossbow Technology, a provider of sensor network technology, is one company trying to make this world a reality. One of Crossbow’s main supporters is Intel.
Crossbow has its programs in Tiny OS, an open source extendable and scalable platform. It is in the process of developing an out-of-the-box solution that is a customizable interface (GUI) middleware application on its tiny RFID readers, which the company calls motes. A single board Linux computer, known as the “Stargate,” powers the whole system. Sam Godwin, Crossbow’s VP of sales and marketing, believes that the mote (reader) will be the future middleware of the RFID system, interfacing to the backbone of the ERP application software.
Sam Godwin predicts that within two years these intelligent motes (readers) will sell for about $10 each.
