Integrating WSN into EPCglobal:the environment-aware supply chain supervision
Zeng Jia-zhi · Journal of Computer Applications · 2008
The Supply Chain Management(SCM) would not be a private work to one specific enterprise since the open and multi-partners joint mode is born with the development of EPCglobal,the booming architecture of global SCM.Through the Electric Product Code(EPC) tag on objects and the distributed information system,EPCglobal provides the circulating goods with a corresponding information chain,through which users can trace the supply chain back to the origin.Considering the essentials and development trends of SCM,the more directly SCM communicates with the circumstances,the more effective the supervision on SCM is.Therefore,a framework that integrated WSN into EPCglobal was proposed,and the information of EPC tag and environment-aware data was bound seamlessly.The integration scheme could power the EPCglobal's ability to acquire and process the data in producing and storing.Also a unified interface was provided to help users access the combined data simply.To integrate WSN and EPCglobal not only is another try to combine two heterogeneous networks skillfully,but also broaden and deepen the information management of supply chain.