Integration of RFID Technology
in Enterprise Platforms
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is named as a possible basis for future anti-counterfeiting by providing enhancements of existing business processes. Hereby, the use of unique Electronic Product Codes (EPCs) for identification improves processing times during goods receipt and enables automated product tracking and tracing. The EPC is used to refer to a concrete item instance in a software system. RFID technology shows advantages in contrast to barcodes, e.g. RFID tags can be read without establishing a direct line of sight, multiple tags can be read simultaneously, and they can cope with dirty environments.
The RFID technology is an important milestone in Supply Chain Management as well as in other industries and will initiate a lot of innovative services, processes and companies in the coming years. Each item of a company could become a part of an IT-based network. Reels of paper for example could use an RFID chip to communicate with other objects like stock grounds, trucks, manufacturing machines or logistic systems automatically without human intervention.
IT is able to provide a detailed real-time picture of the current processes taking place in a company or a supply chain. The provision of near to real-time information opens up lots of opportunities for new use cases.
Linking companies, processes, information systems, equipment, commodities and human beings with RFID improves and accelerates communication between these and therefore substantially enhances the profit, if it is implemented appropriately.
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RFID Lab Team
If you are interested in the work of the RFID-Lab, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us:
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller,
Dr.-Ing. Matthieu-P. Schapranow or
Martin Lorenz.
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| Martin Lorenz, M. Sc. |
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| Phone: +49 (331) 5509-1318 |
| E-mail: martin.lorenz (at) hpi.uni-potsdam.de |
| Room: V-2.18 |
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