1. 4th International Workshop on
RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications,
Challenges
Miguel.Pardal@ist.utl.pt
Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University Lisbon, Portugal

2. EPC Virtual Lab:
Experiments using and RFID location simulator
Carlos Perdigão
Miguel Pardal
4th International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges
June 8th 2010

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RFID middleware is easy…
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Credits: Carlos Perdigão, IST

4. Subscribe, Configure, Notify, Publish
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5. Development methodology
Lab experiments
Simulation Trial deployment

6. Simulator goals
• Model the physical world with sufficient detail
– Aggregation
• Feed information systems with realistic data
– EPC Information Services
– ERP
• Evaluate
– Compare alternatives

7. Architecture

8. Implementation

9. Console

10. Deliverable

11. Conclusion
• Simulator proved useful for preliminary and
exploratory testing
• Future work
– Simulate errors accurately
– Assert EPCIS and ERP state
– Simulate multiple locations
• Complete supply chain
– Tool integration
– IDE
– CAD

12. 4th International Workshop on
RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications,
Challenges
Miguel.Pardal@ist.utl.pt
Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

13. Extras

14. Current work proposals
• RFID Toys
– Robot warehouse monitoring
• RFID Virtual Lab
– IDE integration