Transcript RFID Applications - Complex Event Processing

Event Processing for RFID &
Sensor Driven Environments
Thoughts on Roundtable Agenda
Wednesday March 15th
Agenda
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Presentations
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Dr In K. Mun, Director, Hospital Research HRI, MIT
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Mark Tsimelzon, President and CTO, Coral8
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Multiple Event Streams in Supply Chain Applications
Dieter Gawlick, Architect, Oracle
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RFID for Personal Security in Theme Parks
Tom Abraham, Director of Solutions, Xterprise
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RFID for Hospital Asset Tracking
ChemSecure Use Case
Tao Lin, Director AutoID Infrastructure, SAP Labs
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RFID, Event Processing and Business Applications
Goals
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Define use cases where event processing can be
applied to RFID
Identify weaknesses in event processing
concepts and technologies with respect to RFID
Identify opportunities for RFID with event
processing concepts
Are sensor applications the next Event
Processing sweet spot?
RFID Concepts (relevant to EP)
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Serialized identifier for assets
Identifier structure (tag content)
No line of sight requirement
Filtering & Collection
Event Granularity
Other types of Sensors and event input
Event Processing & RFID Events
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Event Collection
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Raw Read
Reader Controller/Management
Capture Applications
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Correlate
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React
Event Report/Analysis
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Retrieve and apply context
To other events (same tag)
To different asset class
To other event streams
Higher level business messages to application ecosystem
Higher level event correlation
Event Repository
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Archive/Consolidate
Support track and trace with required level of detail
Analytics
Planning
Transportation
Logistics
Asset
Maintenance
Manufacture
Execution
EPC Data Management
Device Middleware
RFID
Device
Scale Mobile Device
Data Store
- Tag Tag &
EPC
PLC
Optical
Profibus Digital I/O
Printer
DeviceNet
Counter
Lightstack
- EPC 21.203D2A9.16E8B8.719BAE03C
RFID/EPC Applications
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Applications
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Supply Chain
Inventory tracking
Surveillance
Asset Management
Security
Locating
Pedigree Tracking
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Industries
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CP
Retailer
Health
Aerospace and
defense
Utility
Pharma
Use Case 1: Cold Chain
Compliance in Supply Chain
Sample Business Cases
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Warehousing / Supply Chain /
Transportation
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Creates a chain of custody to determine where in the
cold chain a temperature breach has occurred if at all
With integration, this solution can tell operators in
real time, to accept, reject, or accelerate the product
through the supply chain (dynamic queuing—not
limited to FIFO or Expiration Date)
Disaster Planning and Recovery
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Allows companies to understand the temperature
changes in products when an anticipated power
outage takes place. Executed at retail stores with a
handheld and tags in the coolers / freezers.
Web Based Reporting (Secured)
Sample Business Case Benefits
Accountability / Profitability
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Financial obligation for refused product is placed on the
correct source in the chain of custody because there is a
correlation between the cold chain breach and the time
it took place
Quality
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The shelf life of temperature sensitive products is
impacted in a negative manner by variations in
temperature.
In understanding the impact temperature has on shelf
life, the amount of time that the product was in an
unacceptable temperature range must be known (degree
minutes).
Sample Business Case Benefits,
cont’d
In-stock Position
 Cold chain breaches are identified immediately
versus when the recipient opens the product and
determines that it is unacceptable. That product
must be immediately reordered and increases the
safety stock levels.
Food Safety Liability
 Microbial activity starts at an exponential rate at
temperatures over 40°F
 The consequences of infecting a customer with this
type of illness are detrimental, not only from a
financial sense but a company’s reputation is
tarnished.
Use Case 2: Asset
Management (Hospital)
RFID Applications At Hospitals
• Patient Wristband
• Blood Product Management
• ER, OR, ICU Management
• Point of Care
• Pharmaceutical Pedigree
• Combating Counterfeit Drugs
• Asset Management
Why Asset Management?
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National average utilization of mobile equipment is 45% -
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Hospitals can lose nearly $1 million a year in medical
equipment thefts alone - HCPro Healthcare Marketplace
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Universal Hospital Services
Five to fifteen percent of hospital inventory is written off
each year since it can no longer be located or more
importantly serviced - Frost & Sullivan
“Equipment moving from patient to patient without going
through decontamination in between has become a
significant issue to JCAHO in regard to infection control in
hospitals” - JCAHO Sentinel Alert
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To prevent infant mix-up
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To build an infrastructure
Equipment Management
 Location Identification
 Security
RFID
Positioning
System
 Inventory Management
 Utilization
 Requisition / Distribution
Business
Process
Management
 Rentals
 Safety / Risk Management
 Transport
 Equipment Cleaning
 Regulatory Compliance
 Clinical Engineering
 Financing / Accounting
RFID-Enabled
Equipment
Management
Application
Asset
Tracking
Use Case 3 – People
Tracking/Security
Losing a Child is a HUGE Problem
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Kids get lost everywhere: amusement
parks, shopping malls, stadiums, skiing
areas, etc.
Kids tend to wander away
Kids are sometimes kidnapped
If a child is missing, EVERY SECOND
COUNTS
Solution Overview
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Enrich RFID data by doing a DB subquery
 Reader locations
 Family information
Split the enriched stream into Parents
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Children streams
Join Parents and Children streams and
select the pairs that are far apart
Location-based RFID
Applications: Lessons Learned
Must analyze large volumes of data at
high data rates
 Must provide real-time response
 Must enrich real-time data with
reference data from databases
 Must provide functionality to make
distance-based correlation easy
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Summary
Common Themes for Sensors &
EP
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Interfacing with Real World
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Temporal Horizons
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Some short
Some longer term
Deriving Higher Level Events
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Volumes, incomplete data, out of order
At different levels in the information chain
Environments with Multiple Streams
Event Processing Driving Process Management in
Dynamic Environments
Goals
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Define use cases where event processing can be
applied to RFID
Identify weaknesses in event processing
concepts and technologies with respect to RFID
Identify opportunities for RFID with event
processing concepts
Are sensor applications the next Event
Processing sweet spot?
Challenges for EP in RFID
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Cost
Is there COTS opportunity?
It’s a hardware world …
Do enterprises realize that they have an
event based problem?
Implementing hierarchical filtering and
correlation
Event Processing for RFID &
Sensor Driven Environments
Thoughts on Roundtable Agenda
Wednesday March 15th