Transparent Identification Server for Cross-Domain RFID Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current RFID systems are limited by domain-specific solutions, leading to fragmented and difficult-to-integrate information across and outside of business boundaries, making it challenging to track physical items across different companies and supply chain systems.
Innovation Solution
A transparent identification (TransID) server that generates virtual object IDs for business items and correlates event information with these IDs, allowing for integrated and comprehensive tracking across domain-specific boundaries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If domain-specific RFID systems are used for tracking physical items, then tracking capability within a single company or environment is improved, but information integration across different businesses and supply chain systems deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal object identity system that works across multiple domain-specific systems. Virtual objects serve as universal representations that can be tracked across different businesses and supply chain systems, making the tracking system adaptable to various domains while maintaining reliable tracking capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces virtual objects as intermediary representations between physical items and multiple domain-specific systems. These virtual objects act as mediators that enable information integration across different businesses without requiring direct integration between all systems, resolving the contradiction between reliable tracking and adaptable integration.
2Ease of operation
If custom applications are built to associate external objects with electronic data records, then association capability is improved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables systems to automatically associate external objects with electronic data records through the virtual object mechanism. The system self-services by automatically creating and managing virtual object representations, eliminating the need for complex custom applications while maintaining easy association capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates virtual object copies that represent physical items in the digital system. These virtual copies enable easy association and tracking without requiring complex integration, as the virtual objects can be manipulated and associated independently while maintaining linkage to physical items.
3Area of stationary object
If multiple domain-specific RFID systems are implemented across the supply chain, then tracking coverage is improved, but information fragmentation and synthesis difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges information from multiple domain-specific RFID systems into unified virtual object representations. By combining data from different systems into a single virtual object model, the patent maintains wide tracking coverage while preventing information fragmentation, as all systems reference the same virtual object identity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the supply chain information system into independent domain-specific systems that each manage their own RFID tracking, while virtual objects provide the unifying layer. This segmentation allows each system to operate independently with wide coverage while the virtual object layer synthesizes information without fragmentation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables transparent and comprehensive event history management for business products/items, facilitating seamless tracking and information exchange across different systems and business domains.
Implementation Method 1
Passive RFID tags have no power source. Instead, they draw power from the reader, which sends out electromagnetic waves that induce a current in the tag's antenna.
Data Source
AI summary
A transparent identification server receives an ID tag associated with a transferable business item from a domain-specific entity and allocates a virtual object ID for the transferable business item. The transparent identification server also receives artifact metadata tracking the activity of the transferable business item. The transparent identification server correlates artifact metadata with the virtual object ID.