RFID Business Aware Framework for Business Process in the EPC Network

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied to many business areas to simplify complex processes and gain important benefits. To derive real benefit from RFID, the system must rapidly implement functions to process the large quantity of event data generated by RFID operations and should be configured dynamically for changing businesses. Consequently, developers are forced to implement systems to derive meaningful high-level events from simple RFID events and bind them to various business processes. Although applications could directly consume and act on RFID events, extracting the business rules from the business logic leads to better decoupling of the system, which consequentially increases maintainability. In this paper, we describe an RFID business aware framework for business process in the electronic product code (EPC) network. The solutions and techniques presented in this paper are based on our experience of RFID middleware from the logistics information technology project.