Progress RFID

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will enable any organization to better understand their operations. Progress Software has created a scalable architecture, Progress for RFID, that facilitates the real-time query and analysis of RFID sensor data as it is captured. It provides the historical time-series analysis of RFID data and can be easily integrated into key business applications that can leverage RFID information to better understand and manage their assets.

Progress for RFID benefits include:

1. Scalable Data Infrastructure. Distributed Cache-Forward™ Architecture delivers better performance and scalability to RFID and other sensor event stream data applications.
2. Event Processing Foundation. Transforms generic "track and trace" functionality into sophisticated event processing applications.
3. Integration. Organizations can exploit the potential of RFID information by extending existing, or new, business applications.

Pipeline architecture delivers a highly scalable application for the capture and low latency processing of event stream information. Event query language provides query and reporting for both real-time and historical analysis of RFID sensor information. Persistence with in-memory performance offers a transactional data store with the high speed responsiveness. ALE adaptor interface for collecting RFID data from middleware that conforms with EPCglobal's ALE standards. Event cache for JMS integrates with key business applications via a JMS messaging (SonicMQ). Windows 2000, XP Sun Solaris 32bit Red Hat Linux

Progress deployments: Managing Timber Harvest Process German forestry company Cambium-Forstbetriebe needed to track the processing of trees as they moved from forests through its supply chain to saw mills that process the lumber. With the aid of RFID, a new system has improved inventory management and streamlined the financial reconciliation process. Software provider DABAC has developed a software application for sawmill operators and forestry companies which integrates Progress for RFID. Cambium-Forstbetriebe now can tag individual trees in the forest and store the RFID data collected from those logs as they are transported to its sawmills. >> DABAC and Cambium-Forstbetriebe >> Feature Video (RealMedia)

Enable developers to:

• Define event stream processing pipelines in C++, Java or XML that handle the collection, processing and output of RFID event streams.
• Create custom event processing functions.
• Capture industry-standard tag formats from industry standard ALE middleware sources.
• Develop query-based applications that analyze RFID in real-time and after RFID data has been written to disk.
• Create applications that pre-process RFID data prior to propagating the information to enterprise applications.

Contact us to gain more insight and learn how Progress RFID can help you transform raw event data into meaningful business decisions.

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Progress and RFID technology can help customers in many industries, such as retail, supply chain, manufacturing, government, travel, and life sciences. Progress is a sponsor of EPCglobal, the global standardization organization for RFID, and a joint initiative between UCC and EAN.

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