1. AGENT-BASED GATEWAY OPERATING SYSTEM FOR RFID- ENABLED UBIQUITOUS MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE - JI FANG, TING QU, ZHI LI, GANGYAN XU, GEORGE Q. HUANG HKUZIRI LAB FOR PHYSICAL INTERNET, DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, CHINA. 100062214 王怡儒 100062372 簡均容 100034048 王品淳 1/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

2. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 2/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

3. Introduction  RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)  RFID middleware  Problems to solve 3/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

4. RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)  Consists of reader and tag  wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of identifying and tracking tags attached to objects  Used in many industries, such as transportation, health care, education 4/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

5. RFID middleware  It coordinates RFID readers, process the vast amount of captured data.  It handles the communication between readers and application software. 5/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

6. Problems  Most of the current existing RFID middleware are sophisticated and expensive > Simplify in structure and reduce in scale to suit manufacturing scenarios  It needs to be more agile and responsive to the modern changing market > Design it to be flexible, modularized, rather than full-featured and sophisticated 6/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

7. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 7/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

8. GOS  An Affordable middleware solution  Address basic RFID functions  Overcome challenges in manufacturing scenario  Easy to deploy  Simple to use 8/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

9. Concept of GOS 9/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

10. Architecture of GOS 10/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

11. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 11/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

12. GDL(Gateway device library)  To provide "Plug and Play"  Use uniform software model Reader object model 12/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

13. Smart agent  Make the reader object smart  Be able to act interact based on business requirement Smart agent model 13/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

14. GSAM(Gateway smart agent manager )  Make RFID devices smart  Be able to perform based on business logics 14/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

15. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 15/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

16. Gateway Operation manager manage gateway operation system  provide user interface for the configurations of gateway and connected devices  contains several built-in applications  allows user to add other new application 16/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

17. Device management tool provides a set of interfaces to configure the connected RFID/Auto-ID devices 17/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

18. Device management tool  devices are able to be detected automatically and managed  allows user to check all information about each connected device  provide device diagnosis functions 18/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

19. Workflow management implement manufacturing processes and its corresponding data  basic component : activities, business logic, smart agents  setup by load existing workflow descriptions in XML 19/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

20. Reader service control access RFID readers directly at some situations  web service mode : implemented and published for back-end applications, which include tag reading and writing  messaging mode : domain applications interact with smart agents through AIS to exchange information between applications and software agents 20/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

21. Reader service control 21/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

22. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 22/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

23. Application information service  a communication protocol for applications and agents at gateway operating system  provide a way for applications to utilize the Auto-ID device infrastructure 23/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

24. Application information service  Design principles: A. simple, lightweight and efficient B. in an open and universal format C. be extensible and easy to maintain 24/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

25. Application information service  meta model of AIS message 25/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

26. Application information service  operation message : sent to smart agents for requesting actions of Auto-ID devices  subscribe message : to reserve data capturing services of specific devices  maintenance message : a set of trial messages for the purpose of testing the functions and statuses of specific devices 26/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

27. Application information service 27/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

28. Outline  Introduction  Gateway Operating System  Gateway device library and smart agent manager  Gateway application manager  Application information service  Discussion and conclusion 28/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

29. Conclusions  GOS retains the basic characteristics and functions of existing RFID middleware system with a much more simpler structure.  It satisfies the particular requirements from manufacturing environment. 29/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

30. Conclusions  It facilitates an easy-to-deploy and simple-to- use RFID solution without entailing specialist knowledge.  The extensible application manager at GOS provides local applications to enable key features. 30/31 100062214 王怡儒 /100062372 簡均容 /100034048 王品淳

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