• Soon they will deploy them across their entire global supply chains.
• This truly represents a sea change in the way materials will be tracked globally!

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Electronic Product Code (EPC) - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID):  Large companies and governmental agencies are deploying EPC-RFID based solutions in many trails to satisfy the compliance requirements of Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense.  Soon they will deploy them across their entire global supply chains. This truly represents a sea change in the way materials will be tracked globally! EPC-RFID Middleware: RFID middleware now plays a critical role in the minds of IT executives making the decisions as to what system to implement. The core functions of RFID middleware are data and device monitoring and management. RFID middleware serves as the "traffic cop" for RFID data, and has built-in business rules that monitor the data stream and direct data to the appropriate enterprise system. This new breed of middleware sits between the RFID reader and conventional middleware. It facilitates communication between enterprise systems and RFID readers and bar code scanners. Benefits of a  EPC-RFID System: RFID is the most advanced asset tracking and identification tag technology available today. RFID tags have read/write capabilities, so tag data can be updated in the field with mobile computing devices. It provides positive identification and automatic data transfer between a tagged object and a reader, which speeds data collection and improves the quality of data by validating asset and location information. RFID tags are read by radio waves, thus no line of sight or direct contact is required between the reader and the RFID tag. RFID tags and readers have no moving parts and the system rarely needs maintenance and can operate for extended periods of time without any down time. Most RFID tags have an extremely long life of 10 years plus. RFID is the best automatic identification technology alternative when evaluated on a total cost of ownership basis. Role of  Savants: Savants are distributed software systems developed by the Auto-ID Center to act as the central nervous system of the EPC Network. A Savant takes data from an RFID reader, does some filtering, handles product lookups and sends the information on to enterprise applications or databases. Today’s Savants provide interfaces to register a user EPC event receiver. A Savant concentrator is a software component that would run on a server and apply intelligence to control the volume of data. EPC-RFID Architecture: An operational data management software system the captures events at the "edge" of the enterprise, where operational activity occurs, rather than in the center, where business-oriented transaction processing occurs. These architectures act as a cache for transactional enterprise systems, and then communicate via middleware once actionable information is identified. Employ Savant "concentrators" that help control the flow of data and provide filtering and aggregation of EPC event streams. This architecture has multiple layers of middleware, including Savants, message-oriented middleware, and enterprise application integration, as well a multiple data stores. Create pipelines for distribution. Once you have the Savant concentrator architecture in place, set up pipelines to handle the huge streams of data. Pipelines separate streams of EPC data to handle load and coordinate or process the data streams after they have been captured. To achieve additional scalability, you may need more than one concentrator to handle multiple data streams.   Delivering Results For Clients!