RFID & Sensor Networks

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are being used to track products, shipments and equipment in a large number of environments including retail, transportation, healthcare and government. Real-time analysis of RFID data using Coral8 can monitor for stock outs, optimize or re-route shipments in the supply chain, enable rapid resource re-allocation, or identify security issues or theft – driving increased revenue and lowering costs.

The critical issues faced by RFID application developers are:

• Timely analysis of the large volume of high-speed RFID data to find the meaningful events,
• Deploying applications close to monitoring points to enable fast discovery of, and reaction to, problems at a local level,
• Continually changing the RFID analysis as new products, routes or resources are added to the business.

Coral8 addresses each of these critical issues, providing the perfect engine for building and deploying complex event processing in RFID applications:

• The high performance Coral8 engine can process high volumes of data produced on large, diverse RFID networks,
• The easy to configure and manage Coral8 Server allows IT teams to push applications out to the edge of RFID networks for fast, local analysis and alerts,
• New or updated CCL application modules can be quickly tested and deployed on a distributed network of Coral8 servers, reducing the cost to maintain and change RFID analyses as business needs shift.