In an increasingly global market, RFID applications present unprecedented opportunities for product suppliers to overcome supply-chain challenges that have accompanied the growth of inter-regional and global trade. Manufacturers, suppliers, End Users, shipping companies and solution providers have spent decades inventing ways to understand where products are as they move through the supply chain. The goals have been to maximize availability -- and create a greater selling opportunity -- while maintaining the lowest amount of product in stock.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) can help businesses improve their bottom line and gain control over business processes through improved visibility, increased efficiency, and enhanced productivity. As companies move past initial pilots and single-site deployments, they need an infrastructure that can easily be deployed and administered, support high-volume data management, and integrate into enterprise business systems.
Extenprise RFID middleware platform is a critical RFID infrastructure component that integrates the edge of the network with enterprise application systems. It helps enable safe, secure, and highly efficient supply chains by supporting applications that address asset tracking, counterfeiting, tampering, and compliance, among others. In addition to managing the large number of RFID devices and other sensors in an enterprise deployment, RFID Software can also aggregate and process volumes of RFID data into business events at the edge - thereby enabling faster decision.
- Data Filtering and Aggregation : Ability to define required information via simple instructions from the continuous stream of low-level raw data generated by RFID readers every second. The processing engine controls, filters, aggregates, and cleans up incoming RFID information
- Monitoring and Management : Administration Console allows monitoring and managing large number of readers.
- Integrating Data with the Enterprise : Application Programming Interface (API) ensures integration with existing enterprise tools and applications, including warehouse management, supply chain management systems, and ERP applications.
- Receive and process RFID tag data with a powerful Application Level Events (ALE) processing engine. Edge Servers then provide interpreted RFID tag data to the enterprise applications that require it.
- Provide real-time reader activity (telemetry data) to a centralized Administration Console, which gives the ability to monitor and manage the RFID infrastructure quickly and centrally.
RFID Middleware is a new component in Extenprise XML IDE Version 5.0 middleware platform. It offers significant extensions for RFID support. The two key components of Extenprise RFID Middleware offering are:
RFID MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE
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