Using RFID technology to enhance quality information to products in agribusiness supply chain
Roberto Candido, Javier Martinez, José Reinaldo Silva · 2015
In this work we present a case where an Informed Process Model to Supply Chain is applied to agribusiness, particularly to a process that benefits seeds. This process uses RFID to provide proper information which is attached to the product in different phases and also to the final package, which stores all important information concerning the production and the quality of the final artifact. The intent of this proposal is to associate quality information with the automation of precision agriculture processes. The characteristic of this RFID application allow a wide distribution of final packets without a lack of quality information and independent of the access to centralized information systems. However, such achievements also depend on a good plan for the design of such systems. Thus, we also include a design process based on Goal Oriented Requirement Engineering to provide focus on project goals since the very beginning of Requirements Elicitation and Analysis phase. Partial results already show the advantage that emerge from the combination of formal - based on Petri Nets - and semi-formal - based on KAOS diagrams - approach to efficiently model tagged processes.