TY - GEN
T1 - Data analysis and simulation of Auto-ID enabled food supply chains based on EPCIS standard
AU - Wang, Rui
AU - Prives, Sergey
AU - Fischer, Roland
AU - Salfer, Michael
AU - Gunthner, Willibald A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The development of Auto-ID technologies has brought new opportunities to improve tracking and tracing process and thus enhance safety and traceability in the food supply chain. EPCIS (EPC Information Service) is a crucial specification for enabling EPC-related data sharing within and across enterprises in standardized way. Due to the limitations of real case implementations, we exploit a simulation method to replicate key identification processes and to generate EPCIS-Events which are captured by such processes in Auto-ID enabled food supply chain. For illustrating this in details, key identification processes and their mapping to related EPCIS-events are illustrated by using a case study in frozen food chain. Suggestions for EPCIS-extensions are also discussed by considering the specific characteristics of frozen food chains. In our work, the generated EPCIS-Events are sent to EPCIS-based repository in real time which better reflects the real world applications. We believe our simulation method could provide a proof-of-concept way in EPCIS-enabled tracking and tracing in food supply chain. Furthermore, the real-time transmission of EPCIS-Events provides a good basis for developing or testing high-level applications.
AB - The development of Auto-ID technologies has brought new opportunities to improve tracking and tracing process and thus enhance safety and traceability in the food supply chain. EPCIS (EPC Information Service) is a crucial specification for enabling EPC-related data sharing within and across enterprises in standardized way. Due to the limitations of real case implementations, we exploit a simulation method to replicate key identification processes and to generate EPCIS-Events which are captured by such processes in Auto-ID enabled food supply chain. For illustrating this in details, key identification processes and their mapping to related EPCIS-events are illustrated by using a case study in frozen food chain. Suggestions for EPCIS-extensions are also discussed by considering the specific characteristics of frozen food chains. In our work, the generated EPCIS-Events are sent to EPCIS-based repository in real time which better reflects the real world applications. We believe our simulation method could provide a proof-of-concept way in EPCIS-enabled tracking and tracing in food supply chain. Furthermore, the real-time transmission of EPCIS-Events provides a good basis for developing or testing high-level applications.
KW - Auto-ID
KW - EPCIS
KW - Simulation
KW - Supply Chain
KW - Tracking and Tracing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053633360&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICAL.2011.6024684
DO - 10.1109/ICAL.2011.6024684
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053633360
SN - 9781457703010
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL
SP - 58
EP - 63
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2011
Y2 - 15 August 2011 through 16 August 2011
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