RFID
RFID-Enabled Supply Chains
Traditional software applications track assets through a structured lifecycle. But that lifecycle often lacks real-time visibility into the true state of things, because too much is dependent upon human tracking and data entry. With the advances of RFID, traditional applications can expand the breadth and granularity of their visibility.
To do so they must incorporate the more continuous stream of information that characterizes RFID data.RFID-sourced events must be quickly collected, organized, and managed by the data management infrastructure. Even if the event volumes may not be extraordinarily large, the event rates are often quite fast, potentially overwhelming traditional applications. Furthermore, the relatively raw, granular composition of RFID data, often requires some intermediate layer of transformation services to turn otherwise meaningless data into something of value to an enterprise application or a user of that application.
Organizations are looking to the power of CEP to help address these challenges. CEP offers the tools that can turn RFID signals into meaningful transactional data. The power of CEP to deliver value for RFID is exemplified by book retailer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), which has deployed Apama together with other Progress technologies to create a SmartStore environment that leverages item-level RFID tagging of the store book inventory.
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