1. Craig Thompson and Joe Hoag {cwt, jhoag}@uark.edu, 479-575-6519 Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering University of Arkansas Industrial Advisory Board Meeting – 8/29/05

2. CSCE Research Directions CSCE Faculty –Craig Thompson – enterprise integration architectures, sensor nets –Dale Thompson – survivable networking, performance monitoring –Pat Parkerson – interference, hardware –Jia Di, Parag Lala - hardware TBD CSCE Students –RFID Center manager – Justin Patton –Testing procedure – Kevin Robinson –RFID Enterprise Integration Architecture project – Joe Hoag, Taneem Ibrahim, Maggie Vorabouth, Minh Vu, Roopa Bheemavaram, Sidhartha Samanta, Vijaya Kalyan, James McCartney, Linh Ng, Anil Balraj, Nabil Lehlou, Kyle Neumeier, Ravi Gunda, Chris Mueller –Smart Refrigerator Senior Design Project – Jeremy Gillean, Terry McDowell, Kevin Robinson

3. R R R R R R RRRR R R Conveyor belt Storage Loading dock Pallets R R R R = RFID Reader Camera Distribution Center Pallet/Container/Item

4. … … steps … … …

5. Reader 2 Conveyor BeltTag PrinterReader 1 Camera GUI Dashboard DBMS … XML/WSDL messages sent between “agents” agent wrappers Uses a Service Oriented Architecture Compatible with WSDL … XML Commands XML Data Device Wrappers

6. Define/document/debug a Test Procedure for RFID product testing Develop a service-oriented architecture for RFID / warehouse automation including testing automation –Use XML/WSDL messaging over IP –Add/remove devices on XML bus –At UA RFID Center - keep track of pallet/container, equipment, and facility configuration; record results of tests; provide analysis. –Scalable - could plug into warehouse. Open source.

7. System-Level Agent Architecture

8. RFID Application -- Reader

9. RFID Application -- Database