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Mojix ConfidentialMojix Confide 3ntial
• Manufacturer– WIP tracking– Asset tracking– Inventory
• Distribution Center– Shipping / Receiving– Staging Goods– Inventory
• Retail Store– Inventory– Replenishment– Anti-Theft– Promotion display
Business Processes Need VisibilityRFID has the potential but has not deliveredBusiness Processes Need VisibilityRFID has the potential but has not delivered
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Catalyst for ‘Next Generation RFID’
The Opportunity: Track Location, Condition and Inventory Using Passive RFID
• Bring passive tag cost benefits to active technology applications• EPC-Gen2 as global standard suited for open loop supply chains • New economics for RTLS systems utilizing passive technology
Mojix Technology: A Breakthrough for Passive RFID
• Economical, large scale read coverage areas, high capacity deployments• Long range, NLOS capability (200 meter)• Location and tracking of fully passive EPC Gen2 tags • Near 100% accuracy and reliability
Mojix STAR System: Use Cases & Applications
ManufacturingReal-time tracking of assets and inventory- optimize workflow- reduce inventory- resource utilization
Perishable GoodsVisibility fast moving goods- Traceability- Aging- Warehouse management
Retail ApparelReal-time Tracking-automatic inventory -reduced shrinkage-promotion tracking- reversed logisitics
Yard ManagementVisibility & Accountability- location accuracy- historical tracking- video & YMS integration
Shipping/Dock DoorsReal-time visibility-staged items-receiving-shipping
Hazardous EnvironmentsLocating assets- Locating for safety- Process optimization- Security & compliance
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Mojix STAR System Centralized Long Range Receiver, Distributed Transmitters
InterrogationSpace
InterrogationSpace
Active
InterrogationSpace
Active
Star Receiver
Centralized Receiver: STAR- High sensitive reader
reading tags up to 200 m- Cover spaces up to
20’000 m2 with 1 reader- Non Line of Sight- Single point for command
and control
Distributed eNodes- 4 external standard UHF
antennas at each eNode- Scales very well
eNodeTransmitter
Tag populations associated to
eNodes
7 Mojix – System components
STAR: Space Time Array ReadereNode: excitation Node
4-Port eNodeSTAR
Master Controller
eMux
Dock Door Discrimination (DDD)
Why is this important?Conventional reader systems must share the ETSI band and may not coordinate frequencies.
This leads to:‐ Degraded performance with scale‐ Extremely RF noisy environments
Feature: ZERO Self Interference
• One system eliminates self interference• No stray read/ cross reads issues• System eliminates False positive reads
Mojix Staging Discrimination
Feature: Staging Discrimination• Ubiquitous coverage of entire dock
• Accurately determine what is • BEING SHIPPED• BEING RECEIVED• STAGED
• Report only desired information
Why is this important?Conventional reader systems report stray tags leaving middleware or backend systems to determine what happened.
This leads to:‐Wasteful network traffic‐ Increased chances of misreads
REWE: No. 2 German Food Retailer Distribution Center Operations
Business Objectives
RFID Performance Requirements
• Management of returnable transport items (RTIs) between 28 Distribution Centers and REWE retail stores
• Reduction of shipping operation errors
• Highly accurate tag reads at shipping dock doors and staging areas
• 100% Dock Door Discrimination (DDD) and 100% Staging Discrimination
• Coverage of 40,000 square meter DC with different pallets with dry food and perishables
RFID Performance Requirements
REWEDockdoor Operations
Shipping Dock Doors
Mojix Solution: 99.9% Read Accuracy of pallets and ReturnableTransport Items (RTIs), across 100 dock doors
Mojix EPC Based RTLSA New Paradigm in “Tracking & Tracing”
– Mojix STAR system enabling new economics with RTLS systems utilizing passive technology
– Emergence of EPC RTLS solutions in:• Asset tracking• Factory/warehouse (WIP)• Retail Store (inventory, anti-theft)• Yard management
– Emergence of lower cost battery assisted EPC Gen 2 tags– Performance improvements in newer passive Gen 2 tags
Real Time view to inventory and assetsTrue supply chain visibility
Reduced time to locate and stageImproved utilization
Warehouse Operations
Shipyard (Netherlands)Re-engineering Shipbuilding & Logistics
Business Objectives
RFID Performance Requirements
• Automated real-time visibility to outbound parts shipments
• Eliminate inefficient, error prone and costly manual processes
• Ensure timely and accurate shipments
• RTLS coverage in outbound staging areas • Identify and locate goods staged for loading on
sea-containers for worldwide shipping• Accuracy of locating goods of less than 2 meters
Antennas /
e-Nodes
Certified Mojix Partnersince March 2009
A project by:
Shipyard (Netherlands)Re-engineering Shipbuilding & Logistics
• Metal parts, liquids (oil drums) and mixed pallets tagged with flag tags
Mojix Solution : passive RTLS with low-cost passive EPC Gen 2 Tags providing visibility of staged pallets before shipping
• Goods stacked on top of each other can be identified and located
Antennas/ e-Nodes
Antennas/ e-Nodes
Perishable Foods Track & TraceFresh Produce Production Operation
Business Objectives
RFID Performance Requirements
• Real-time product condition information• Verification of freshness• Ability to trace contaminated, packed product
back to its origin• Reduce operational inefficiencies, scrap
levels and overall risk• Reduce redundant purchases and theft
• High water content products• High read rates required• Dock door and inventory staging accuracy• Track and trace throughout the production
process
Mojix e-Node
Perishable Foods Track & TraceLeading US Produce Supplier
• Mojix eNodes excite RFID tags on raw-product bins
– entry into the facility at dock doors– through the inventory staging area to
the bin dumpers
Mojix Solution: Real-time tracking of tagged goods and plastic bins using passive RFID, as items move from receiving through the facility
• 99.9% tag reads on bins moving through processing
• Location of the tagged bins in the inventory staging to facilitate proper FIFO processing
Tracking RTI‘s in Staging-Area Leading European Retailer
• Locate Pallets in staging-lanes
• Optimize shipping process
• Reduce wrong-shipments
• Check before Shipping
Mojix e-Nodes
Mojix e-Nodes
Warehouse: 1 STAR does it all !
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3 Usecases:
- Dockdoor- Staging- Inventory
Mojix STAR
Warehouse Inventory Shelf/Rack
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Mojix eNodes
eNodes mounted at the ceiling above aisles allows locating items on which shelf
Manufacturing Tracking Finished Goods into 3PL
Results & Benefits: Increased productivity, reduced error rates, improved accuracy• RFID tracking solution for both products sets, driven and crated
• All use cases were incorporated into the solution for both product sets– RFID - Auto Receiving– RFID - Auto Storage – RFID - Auto Shipping
• Overall solution met the ROI requirements
Port OperationsAsset and Goods Visibility
Business Objectives RFID Initiative
RFID performance requirements
• Lower costs and mitigate risks associated with challenges in port staging operations
• Inventory, shipping accuracy, lost or misplaced items
• Tracking tagged assets to pre-determined zones reliably
• Enhance visibility of material flow• Identify and track all tagged assets entering a
slip, staged in the slip, being loaded onto a ship, and leaving the ship
Port OperationsAsset and Goods Visibility
Mojix Solution: Complete asset visibility in slip operations
• Tagged assets read as they enter or exit a slip
• Tagged assets read as they are staged and loaded onto ships
• STAR receiver read range performed at 200 meters
– The STAR system installed quickly and scales easily
– A Mojix enabled RTLS can be utilized with low cost passive tags
Backroom Sales Floor
Check-out
FittingRoom
Front Door
SALE
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Receiving /Shipping
Real-time Inventory
Check-OutEAS
RFID enabled Retail Store
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Mojix Next Generation RFID
• Ubiquitous VISIBILITY– Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, fence to fence!– Range of reading tags of 200 meters (even in NLOS)
• Passive RTLS– Location and tracking of passive EPC Gen 2 tags– Low-cost EPC tags based on global standards vs. high tag costs for
proprietary infrastructure only suitable for closed loop solutions
• Near 100% Accuracy and Reliability– Mission critical business process to recognize true ROI– Seamless integration of STAR solution with business process
• STAR: Fully Centralized Data Collection Network Appliance– Central read point on a single network element– “All-in-one” without aggregation middleware– Save costs (CAPEX and OPEX)
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