4th International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications,

Challenges

Miguel.Pardal@ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University Lisbon, Portugal

EPC Virtual Lab: Experiments using and RFID location simulator

Carlos Perdigão

Miguel Pardal

4th International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges

June 8th 2010

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Development methodology

Simulation Lab experiments

Trial deployment

Simulator goals

• Model the physical world with sufficient detail

– Aggregation

• Feed information systems with realistic data

– EPC Information Services

– ERP

• Evaluate

– Compare alternatives

Architecture

Implementation

Console

Deliverable

Conclusion

• Simulator proved useful for preliminary and exploratory testing

• Future work

– Simulate errors accurately

– Assert EPCIS and ERP state

– Simulate multiple locations

• Complete supply chain

– Tool integration – IDE

– CAD

4th International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications,

Challenges

Miguel.Pardal@ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Extras

Current work proposals

• RFID Toys

– Robot warehouse monitoring

• RFID Virtual Lab

– IDE integration