Authors:
Paris Pennesi
1
;
Mark Harrison
1
;
Chaithanya Rao
2
;
Chien Yaw Wong
3
and
Srilakshmi Sivala
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Cambridge, Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory and the Auto-ID Lab, United Kingdom
;
2
Indian Institute of Technology, India
;
3
RedBite Solutions Ltd., United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Context aware systems, rfid middleware, business process, business context addition.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Resource Planning
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Middleware Integration
;
Middleware Platforms
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Engineering
;
Technology Platforms
Abstract:
RFID technology can be used to its fullest potential only with software to supplement the hardware with powerful capabilities for data capture, filtering, counting and storage. The EPCglobal Network architecture encourages minimizing the amount of business logic embedded in the tags, readers and middleware. This creates the need for a Business Logic Layer above the event filtering layer that enhances basic observation events with business context - i.e. in addition to the (what, when, where) information about an observation, it adds context information about why the object was there. The purpose of this project is to develop an implementation of the Business Logic Layer. This application accepts observation event data (e.g. from the Application Level Events (ALE) standard interface), enriches them with business context and provides these enriched events to a repository of business-level events (e.g. via the EPC Information Services (EPCIS) capture interface). The strength of the appl
ication lies in the automatic addition of business context. It is quick and easy to adapt any business process to the framework suggested and equally easy to reconfigure it if the business process is changed. A sample application has been developed for a business scenario in the retail sector.
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