26th january 2004, ist, libon, portugal the emergence of rfid/epc and beyond – architecture...
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26th January 2004, IST, Libon, Portugal26th January 2004, IST, Libon, Portugal
The Emergence of The Emergence of RFID/EPC and BeyondRFID/EPC and Beyond – –
Architecture Architecture ImplicationsImplications
by by António MurtaAntónio Murta
26th January 2004, IST, Libon, Portugal26th January 2004, IST, Libon, Portugal
Agenda• Physical objects and Data: two parallel worlds
• What if the two worlds collapse?
• Key technological trends coming…
• … translated into specific technologies
• “Animated” physical objects: a simple taxonomy
• Getting real: trace-ability implementations on the Supply Chain
• Communication between physical objects
• Concluding remarks: Architecture Implications
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Physical objects and Data: two parallel worlds
• Implications
– Check-in / Check-out
– Are the flows in sync? (necessary to check all the time)
Reference + Transaction Data
Physical ObjectsIn therecent past…
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What if the two worlds collapse?
• Implications
– Big potential for automation on check-in / check-out
– Guaranteed sync between the two worlds
– Ethical / Legal: limits of trace-ability / visibility
Physical Objects & Reference + Transaction data
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Key technological trends coming...
• Mobility leading to Pervasiveness
• Auto-identification
– Products
– People (?)
• Patterns of ambient intelligence
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... translated into specific technologies
WWi-i-FFiirolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts
EPCEPC
Savant Savant ServerServer
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... translated into specific technologies
• Implications for UMTS (Telco)
• Implications for customer expectations in some sectors (e.g. hotels, airports)
WWi-i-FFiirolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts
EPCEPC
Savant Savant ServerServer
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... translated into specific technologies
• Size
• Price
• Price Expectations
• Constraints (current and future)
WWi-i-FFii
rolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts
EPCEPC
Savant Savant ServerServer
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... translated into specific technologies
• Coding limits
• The code is just a pointer
• Think of a list of all the static and dynamic attributes of any physical object
• Call that “The Universal Directory off All Physical Objects”
WWi-i-FFii
rolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts
EPCEPC
Savant Savant ServerServer
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... translated into specific technologies
• Use case 1: Happy Hour!
• Use case 2: Total Inventory Counts!
• Is this sufficient to make you wonder what we are talking about?
WWi-i-FFii
rolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts
EPCEPC
SavantSavant ServerServer
Savant
Server
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... translated into specific technologies
Startbucks leading example
Weapons’ trace-ability
EAN/UCC standards in Q3/Q4 2003
MIT Labs
Mobile internet everywhere and
anytime
Full trace-ability made possible
A P2P universal directory of all
physical objects of the world
A server to communicate
with N physical objects without
wires
WWi-i-FFiirolloutrollout
RFID on RFID on ProductsProducts EPCEPC Savant Savant
ServerServer
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“Animated” physical objects: a simple taxonomy
No RFID tagsNo RFID tags Passive TagsPassive Tags Active TagsActive Tags Active and Active and sensing tagssensing tags
No digital interaction potencial
Pure scan / auto-id potential
Physical objecthistory + state
“Proxies” of human beings
Intelligent devices
That’s today Check-in / Check-out
More sophisticated
interaction
Savant server, our phones
Growing degree of ambient intelligence
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Getting real: trace-ability implications on the Supply Chain
• BIG OPPORTUNITY for
– Cost reduction (elimination of check-in / check-out)
– Increased supply chain visibility
Source: Auto ID Center - IBM Business Consulting Services, 2002
Labour Cost Reduction
Impact of RFID on
Distribution Centres
DC Processes Min Max
Receiving 60% 93%
Picking
Shipping
up to 36%
up to 90%
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Getting real: trace-ability implications on the Supply Chain
Reusable physical
asset tagging “From 2005 onwards
only electronically
tagged cases and
pallets will be
accepted”Time
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Shr
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exp
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Asset Tracking
Full Supply Chain
tracking
Pallet/Case Tracking
Single Item
tracing for internal
purposes
Item Tracking
New
models of
customer
interaction
with
physical
products
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Communication between physical objects
• What about the impact of all this on day-to-day life?
– Can my phone ask my tie where did I buy it and for how much?
– What about your phone?
– What about my shirt?
– What do shirts debate with ties?
“Someday, objects will be wide-ranging and have deep conversations with other objects, and their silent form of commerce will be the rule.”
Glover Fergueson, Harvard Business Review, June 2002
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Concluding Remarks: Architecture implications
Ambient Intelligence as “The Bridge”
Extreme“Centralization”
(P2P)
ExtremePervasiveness
The computer is... Everything!
“Universal Directory of Physical Products”for the rescue(yet another component of the Semantic Web)
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Concluding Remarks: Architecture Implications
• Emergent notions = “Object field”, Personal Area Networks (eg. ZigBee)
• Need to orchestrate the interaction between objects
• Some objects will be “proxies” of us (P-Comm concept)
• Towards a more “Matrix-like” Architecture: Atoms ... + Bits!