Implementation and testing of an EPCglobal-aware Discovery Service for item-level traceability

Barchetti, Ugo; Bucciero, Alberto; Blasi, M. De; Mainetti, Luca; Patrono, Luigi

doi:10.1109/icumt.2009.5345580

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“…They inherit the basic features of RFID technology (i.e., working in reader/writer mode with passive tags) but they are also characterized by the possibility to share data across active (powered) devices [8]. The diffusion of these RF technologies has been significantly increased by the asserting of international standards such as EPCglobal [9][10][11][12] and Global Standard 1 (GS1). In particular, the EPCglobal standard provides a promising open architecture for tracking and tracing objects over the Internet.…”

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An RFID-Based Tracing and Tracking System for the Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain

Mainetti

Mele

Patrono

et al. 2013

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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The paper presents an innovative gapless traceability system able to improve the main business processes of the fresh vegetables supply chain. The performed analysis highlighted some critical aspects in the management of the whole supply chain, from the land to the table of the end consumer, and allowed us to reengineer the most important processes. In particular, the first steps of the supply chain, which include cultivation in greenhouses and manufacturing of packaged vegetables, were analyzed. The reengineered model was designed by exploiting the potentialities derived from the combined use of innovative Radio Frequency technologies, such as RFID and NFC, and important international standards, such as EPCglobal. The proposed tracing and tracking system allows the end consumer to know the complete history of the purchased product. Furthermore, in order to evaluate the potential benefits of the reengineered processes in a real supply chain, a pilot project was implemented in an Italian food company, which produces ready-to-eat vegetables, known as IV gamma products. Finally, some important metrics have been chosen to carry out the analysis of the potential benefits derived from the use of the re-engineered model.

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An RFID-Based Tracing and Tracking System for the Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain

Mainetti

Mele

Patrono

et al. 2013

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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“…Barchetti et al [3] have developed and experimented a scalable Discovery Service as an extension of the framework FossTrak [1], an open architecture that implements most of the EPCglobal services and the entire EPCglobal protocol stack. In [20], a distributed Discovery Service has been proposed.…”

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An enhanced security scheme for query state inference in EPCglobal discovery services

Dahbi

Khair

Mouftah

2014

Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applica

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The EPCglobal Network is a global network that provides trade partners with real-time and accurate data sharing capabilities. Discovery Services refer to a suite of network services performing the critical lookup function, which consists of querying a common repository in order to localize all information sources with relevant data. Given the high sensitivity of the exchanged data in the EPCglobal Network, it becomes crucial to secure Discovery Services. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic security scheme capable of detecting suspicious Discovery Services queries during transaction. The query is first converted into a vector of observed real values. These observed values are assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution both for safe and suspicious queries. Then, a classification algorithm computes a score for each state; i.e. safe and suspicious, and infers the state of the query. We conducted extensive experiments. The results show that, compared to a simple Gaussian model, our proposed scheme improves both the detection rate and the false alarm rate.

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“…Recently, the counterfeiting attempts are growing more and more so to force the government of many countries to define effective strategies to face this serious problem [2]. Indeed, the RFID technology will play a very important [4,5], high scalability of the tracing services [6], evaluation of potential effects of the RFIO systems on drugs [7], etc. Taking into account some recent works [8,9] that have excluded destructive effects of RFID systems on synthetic or semi-synthetic drugs, in this paper, we focused on the evaluation of potential impacts of the RFIO systems on biological drugs.…”

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Potential effects of RFID systems on biotechnology insulin preparation: A study using HPLC and NMR spectroscopy

Acierno

Carata

Pascali

et al. 2010

IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering

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The item-level traceability is a very important requirement for many practical application scenarios, where it needs to guarantee perfect transparency for products flow along the whole supply chain. Among these, the pharmaceutical distribution is a very interesting scenario, characterized by many challenges, where, the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology will play a very important role. Unfortunately, there are still some technical barriers that are retarding the deployment of these innovative technologies in large-scale. For the pharmaceutical supply chain, there have been concerns raised regarding the potential effects on the quality of drugs due to electromagnetic fields exposure. This work aimed to evaluate potential effects of tracing RFID systems on the molecular structure of biological drugs. In particular, some samples of a commercial human insulin preparation have been exposed for different periods to electromagnetic fields generated by RFID devices. In order to evaluate possible alterations on the molecular structure, the following diagnostic techniques were used: High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). HPLC analysis demonstrated that there isare no differences between the RFID exposed samples and the control. On the contrary, a first and partial NMR analysis detected some changes on the insulin molecule spectra after one hour of exposition to the electromagnetic field.Unfortunately, this approach did not allow us to verify possible damages on the protein because of presence of expicients and low drug concentration. Further investigations, e.g. in vitro functional analysis, are required.

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Implementation and testing of an EPCglobal-aware Discovery Service for item-level traceability

Cited by 31 publications

References 3 publications

An RFID-Based Tracing and Tracking System for the Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain

An RFID-Based Tracing and Tracking System for the Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain

An enhanced security scheme for query state inference in EPCglobal discovery services

Potential effects of RFID systems on biotechnology insulin preparation: A study using HPLC and NMR spectroscopy

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