1. Created by the Community for the Community Building a RFID solution in BTS 09

2. Created by the Community for the Community Scott Scovell Microsoft Virtual TS Breeze http://www.breeze.net http://www.breeze.net BizTalk Light and Easy Webcast Series

3. Created by the Community for the Community Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Microsoft BizTalk RFID Architecture Developing RFID Solutions Demo – RFID In Action Summary

4. Created by the Community for the Community 1.Tag enters RF field of antenna 2.RF signal powers tag 3.Tag transmits ID & data 4.Reader captures data 5.Reader sends data to computer 6.Computer send data to reader 7.Reader transmits data to tag (tags can be read in bulk) Reader Antenna Tag on item, box or pallet Computer

5. Created by the Community for the Community Operational Efficiencies Shipping and Receiving Warehouse management Distribution Asset management Security, Regulations Total asset tracking Defense supplies Container tampering Animal Tracking Total Supply Chain Visibility Inventory visibility in warehouses In-transit visibility, asset tracking Pallet, case level Item, instance level Shrinkage, counterfeit Reduce internal theft Reduce process errors Avoid defensive merchandizing Product verification Origin, transit verification

6. Created by the Community for the Community Platform, tools, and components to design, deploy, manage RFID solutions Device abstraction & management Event processing Robust, scalable, performant, secure architecture Part of Windows Server System Supported on Windows XP, 2003, and beyond

7. Created by the Community for the Community Next Gen Devices RFID Engine & Runtime Custom Providers Device Service Provider Interface (DSPI) RFID Infrastructure OM / API’s EPC Provider Designers, Tools & Adapters Store EPC Reader Current Devices …. Engine & Runtime Partner Solutions Partner Solutions Microsoft RFID Infrastructure LOB Apps LOB Apps HardwareHardware Rules Engine Device Management Sensors EPC-ISinterfaceEPC-ISinterface

8. Created by the Community for the Community BizTalk RFID Infrastructure

9. Created by the Community for the Community Enable applications to work with a rich set of hardware devices Provide a unified way to discover, configure, manage, and communicate with RFID devices Device Service Provider Interface (DSPI) framework Used to develop device providers for the BizTalk RFID platform

10. Created by the Community for the Community Allows physical RFID devices to communicate with the BizTalk RFID platform Allows business applications to communicate with RFID devices Types of operations providers support Management Device Notifications

11. Created by the Community for the Community WCF AdapterWCF Adapter DeviceDevice ………….. ProviderProviderDeviceDeviceProviderProvider Event queueEvent queue SQL Sink RFID business processRFID business process WCF ChannelWCF Channel BizTalk Server WCF Service.NET App Surfacing device services Command Response SQL AdapterSQL Adapter

12. Created by the Community for the Community RFID Device Providers

13. Created by the Community for the Community BizTalk RFID Processes respond to tag events raised by devices Executed by the Event Processing Engine Scale from simple to complex business tasks Capable of filtering, alerting, enriching, and transforming tag events Brings together logical sources, logical devices, and event handlers into a logical unit of execution

14. Created by the Community for the Community WCF AdapterWCF Adapter ………….. Event queueEvent queue SQLSi nk RFID business processRFID business process WCF ChannelWCF Channel BizTalk Server WCF Service Surfacing device services SQL AdapterSQL Adapter DeviceDeviceProviderProviderDeviceDeviceProviderProvider

15. Created by the Community for the Community Process tag events passed through the event processing pipeline Filter tag events (terminate processing) Duplicate events Multiple sources raise same event Business rules evaluation Enrich tag event data Add custom data to tag event Cleanse device tag event data Integrate with other business systems Insert tag events into a database Call services to pass on tag events

16. Created by the Community for the Community

17. SQL Server Sink Stores tag event details in SQL Server Terminating event handler Ideal for auditing and debugging tag read events Rule Engine Policy Executor Executes Business Rules Engine (BRE) policies from an event handler BRE allows you to dynamically create, publish, deploy, and execute policies without having to stop and restart running business processes Ideal for Filtering and/or Enriching tag read events

18. Created by the Community for the Community RFID Processes

19. Created by the Community for the Community Device Provider ISV or 3 rd Party Provided Custom development using DSPI layer Event Handlers OOTB Components (SQL Sink and Rule Policy Executor) Custom event handlers RFID Processes Device binding Component binding Test and Debug Logging tools VS debugging support Package and Deploy XML binding files Support for scriptable deployment

20. Created by the Community for the Community RFID in action

21. Created by the Community for the Community Abstraction of device handling Discovery, configuration, communication, and management Rich RFID event processing model Design, store, deploy and manage RFID processes Reduce data ‘noise’ and increase data relevancy Rules Engine for Filters, Alerts and Transformations English like vocabularies for rule creation / modification by business user Inference based generation of events – Ex: ‘Internal Movements’ Robust framework to support agile processes Rules provide dynamic policy morphing ‘Hot-swap’ of Readers & Processes Support for transactional execution and failover semantics Base set of tools for lifecycle management Device, Process and Server Management

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