RFID enabled traceability networks: a survey

Abstract

The emergence of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology brings significant social and economic benefits. As a non line of sight technology, RFID provides an effective way to record movements of objects within a networked RFID system formed by a set of distributed and collaborating parties. A trail of such recorded movements is the foundation for enabling traceability applications. While traceability is a critical aspect of majority of RFID applications, realizing traceability for these applications brings many fundamental research and development issues. In this paper, we assess the requirements for developing traceability applications that use networked RFID technology at their core. We propose a set of criteria for analyzing and comparing the current existing techniques including system architectures and data models. We also outline some research opportunities in the design and development of traceability applications.

A Framework for Developing Social Networks Enabling Systems to Enhance the Transparency and Visibility of Cross-border Food Supply Chains

“…Wynn et al have analyzed data and process requirements in recalling product, and proposed a workflow-based coordination framework to support food manufacturers, government agencies and the general public to trace the recalled foods [71]. Implementation challenges and limitations together with advantages of using RFID in animal identification and food chain traceability control are comprehensively studied in [18], [32], [37], [57], [61], [70]. More innovative applications of this kind of Internet-of-Things technology in the life-cycle traceability of food product are expected to emerge in future around the world.…”

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“…Many track & trace systems are designed and implemented in the past decade, including IBM Theseos, DIALOG, and the system developed in BRIDGE project [3]. However, the problem of sharing supply chain information among different partners is still a challenging problem.…”

“…With the rapid development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, RFID-enabled supply chain networks have drawn considerable attention from both research and industry communities [1][2][3]. As an industry standard of RFIDenabled supply chain networks, the EPCglobal network is designed with the intention of increasing visibility of objects within supply chains [4].…”

Expressive RFID data access policies for the Pharmaceuticals supply chain

“…Traceability information systems enable the retrieval of past (trace), present (track) and possible future information (predict) [2]. Tracing finds the historical states of a physical object.…”