Craig Thompson and Joe Hoag cwt jhoaguark edu

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

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 Mc. Cartney, Linh Ng, Anil Balraj, Nabil Lehlou, Kyle Neumeier, Ravi Gunda, Chris Mueller – Smart Refrigerator Senior Design Project – Jeremy Gillean, Terry Mc. Dowell, Kevin Robinson

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

<RFID-Test> <Configuration> <Pallets> … </Pallets> <Facility> … </Facility> <Test-Procedure> … steps … </Test-Procedure> </Configuration> <Results> <Tag-Reads> …<Tag-Reads> </Results> <Analysis> … </Analysis> </RFID-Test>

Reader 1 Device Wrappers XML Commands Reader 2 … Conveyor Belt Tag Printer Camera agent wrappers XML Data XML/WSDL messages sent between “agents” DBMS GUI Dashboard … • Uses a Service Oriented Architecture • Compatible with WSDL

• 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.

System-Level Agent Architecture

RFID Application -- Reader

RFID Application -- Database