19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC)

1. RFID - From Farm to Fork
SoftCOM 2011 Conference
Strengthening SME competitive
advantage through RFID implementation
Mira Trebar
mira.trebar@fri.uni-lj.si
Andrej Grah
Alejandro Alvarez Melcon,
Alfredo Parreno

2. Objectives & benefits
• Provide authentication of origin.
• Promote safe and quality fish food.
• Assure and improve traceability.
• Implement cold chain control.
• More efficient control of the supply chain.
• Increased productivity through reduced wastage.

3. EU Project ‘RFID-F2F’
• RFID traceability system
• Fish pilots – Slovenia & Spain
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4. Farmed fish supply chain
• SMEs
• Consumer
• Business process
• Track the product
• Trace the data
• Technology:
 Barcode
 RFID

5. Approach & Methodology
• Food traceability
– Capture data (From Farm to Fork)
– Query data (From Fork to Farm)
• SCM Questions - Answers
WHAT - Product
WHEN – Time
WHERE – Location
WHY - Business step
• Selection of technology
– Barcode
– RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) – EPC (UHF - 860 to 960 MHz)
• GS1 Traceability standards
• EPC Global Network – SCM partners

6. Fixed/Handheld RFID
readers
Fish farm
Customer
Processing Transport

7. RFID in Cold chain

8. Fish pilot - Slovenia
• Collecting customer orders
• Catch of fish
• Processing – storing - Delivering

9. Fish pilot - Spain
• Growing fish
• Catch the fish
• Processing - Storing
• Preparing orders - delivering

10. Traceability web page
http://wmrfid.org/farm2fork/trace.html?uri=tag/302d6d4306800a400000014A

11. Conclusion
• Fish Supply Chain Traceability systems
• Flexible, scalable and interoperable RFID systems
• Solutions easily transferred to any business process of farmed fish
• Use of a global EPC Information Service structure
• Collecting, storing and displaying data - ‘From Farm to Fork‘

12. RFID - From Farm to Fork
Strengthening SME competitive
advantage through RFID implementation