An alert notification facility for RFID event repositories

Author

Crisan, Valer-Alin ; Rantzau, Ralf

Author_Institution

Silicon Valley Lab., IBM, San Jose, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

7-12 April 2008

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

93

Abstract

RFID event data repositories such as EPCglobal\´s EPC information services (EPCIS) contain valuable information that is not only useful for ad-hoc data analysis but also for on- demand information needs according to the publish-subscribe paradigm. The EPCIS standard defines a query control interface that allows running queries against events and master data stored in the EPCIS repository according to a time schedule when the query is (repeatedly) executed. However, this asynchronous query mode is not ideal for some types of information needs. For example, the request "Let me know immediately whenever a certain type of item has not returned to a secure location within a specified time interval" can be expressed more effectively by a dedicated alert and notification system. We discuss a framework for defining alerts of arbitrary complexity and its integration into an EPCIS implementation.

Keywords

query processing; radiofrequency identification; EPC information services; EPCglobal; RFID event repositories; ad-hoc data analysis; alert notification facility; publish-subscribe paradigm; query control interface; Computer languages; Data analysis; Information retrieval; Java; Laboratories; Publish-subscribe; Radiofrequency identification; Silicon; Subscriptions; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering Workshop, 2008. ICDEW 2008. IEEE 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2161-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2162-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDEW.2008.4498292

Filename

4498292