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Microsoft Platform for

RFID and Real World
Scenarios

Jeff Johnson ([email protected])

Technical Specialist
Microsoft
Agenda

Microsoft Vision for RFID Platform

Real World RFID Applications
Microsoft RFID Platform
Demonstration

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Vision & Scope for Integration

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BizT alk RFID
IGPS, CHEP,
in the Real World
RTI

Asset
Security

Supply Chain

In Store

Asset
Visibility

Doc Tracking

Supply Chain

Access

Mobile

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 Supply Chain

KMM Supply Chain Optimisation

We can watch Boeings back and it can watch
ours, because well have visibility into Boeings
consumption of our product. We can then match
our production line and inventory associated with
it.
Dan Hedger, President Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing

Needed to track Send variable data Overall production

inventories in real- from SQL to embed cycle time cut in half
time data into RFID tags 35% reduction in time
Needed warehouse BizTalk Server RFID required to fabricate
system validation for pick-up & ship an assembly
item, lot and serial integrated with 71% reduction in the
numbers and Dynamics GP to share production to
quantities real-time data with shipment cycle time
Lacked real-time Boeing Cut more than
visibility into it Produced and $120,000 in real
production processes managed standard estate costs
Needed to comply EDI documents
--Advanced Ship
Eliminated need for a
with Just-In-Time (JIT) third-party value-
initiatives from larger Notice (ASN) 850,
856, needed to trade added network
partners like Boeing
successfully with
large supply chain
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partners like Boeing
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KMM: How it Works (Order to Ship)
WIP
WIP
Status
Status
Orde
r
ASN
ASN Status updates
To SharePoint
Printable
Custome KM RFID
r M Label

Traveler

Shippin TAG
g Label
Readers
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 Asset
Security
Wells Fargo: Asset Security
Slips of paper and unwanted equipment that
people throw away should not hold the keys to
their savings and financial secrets
President George Bush as he signed a new law intended to
protect Americans from identity theft

Thousands of IT hard Developed special Established a

drive assets use passive RFID tags corporate risk
containing highly to place on all hard mitigation strategy
sensitive customer drives and laptops to protect corporate
and corporate Installed special use and consumer
information readers at various Greatly curtailed
Inefficient means of entry / exit choke asset loss and
tracking Laptop points ensured end of life
Assets with sensitive Deployed XAM assets were
data. Asset Management destroyed
Inability to ensure end solution to track the Improved employee
of life drives were lifecycle of the awareness and
properly destroyed corporate assets automated the
created Automated Hard tracking of laptops
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breeches in 2 years, Lowered corporate
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Turn Style Laptop Tracking
Application
Tracks Laptop assets as they leave
Guards to identify high risk assets
Compare owner picture with person
leaving the facility
Investigate exceptions

Delivering
Delivering the
the Power
Power of
of
Clarity
Clarity

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 Mobile
Our maintenance and quality control personnel find that
the solution built on BizTalk RFID Mobile has accelerated
inspections by 5 to 15 percent.
Andrew Stephen, Works Manager, Score Group plc

Engineering firm uses radio frequency

identification (RFID) to automate inspections

Streamline onshore
Engaged IDBLUE to
Sped valve
and offshore valve deploy an inspections up to
inspections automated valve- 15 percent
inspection solution

Facilitate data built with

Improved data
analysis and the Microsoft BizTalk accuracy
exchange of RFID Mobile and
information for

Increased office
the Microsoft .NET productivity 515
employees and Compact
customers percent
Framework

Minimize manual

Provided for future

Issued Windows innovation
data entry Mobile devices to Do your systems talk business? |
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 RTI

Customer Scenario: iGPS

Background
Problem Statement:
Reusable Transport Items (RTI) Inventory
Management
Need for 100% item level visibility
Fact based usage transactions
Requirements:
Production Solution vs. Pilot
Application/Solution must provide
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Do your systems talk
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iGPS Pallet Pooling -

video

IGPS Video
 Customer Scenario: iGPS
Process
Pallet Pool for Major Retailers
Pallet Manufacturer
Retail Regional DC
Retail Store
Retail Supplier

End-to-End Solution

XAM RFID Portal

Retailer RFID Portal

Retail Pallet Depot

Pallet Pool for Major Retailers

End-to-End Solution
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Customer Scenario: iGPS
Topology
XAM Enterprise
Managing
Managing
>1,000,00 Central Server
>1,000,00
00
Transaction
Transaction
AnalytiX
s/s/ Data Warehouse
month
month

XAM
Edge Server

Branch

RFID Readers RFID Readers

XARM
Source
Tagging
Birthing
Birthing Server
>400,000
>400,000
tags/mon
tags/mon
th
th
Pallet Retail Supplier Retail Depot
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Deployments

TBH

- Central Server
- Edge Server (Mfg)
- Edge Server (Depot)

D Ray

>10,000,000 transactions/mo

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Do your systems talk
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Microsoft RFID
Platform

Capabilities &
Architecture
BizTalk RFID Vision

Enable widespread adoption

Make RFID Simple
Support beyond only RFID
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce time to build solutions
Reduce deployment time
Leverage existing investments in
systems/solutions

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BizTalk RFID's E2E Perspective
Enterprise Rich Integration Rich
Capability Development Mobility
Manageability
Platform
Plug & Play Out of Box .NET Based .NET Based
Manage and Event SDK SDK
Monitor Handlers SQL, Extendible Extendible
Devices BRE, Web Driver(DSPI) Driver (DSPI)
UHF, HF, LF, Services Model to Model to
Active, RTLS, Integrates with Support Varied Support Varied
NFC and BizTalk Server Devices Devices
Sensor Devices to Leverage Extend Extend
Real Time 40+ Platform Platform
Failover Adapters Capabilities Capabilities
Integrates BPM, EDI, Build Rich Build Rich
System Center EAI RFID Enabled RFID Enabled
Operations Capability Applications Applications
Manager SOA Store &
Platform Forward
IT Operations
IT Operations
Win Mobile &
Mobile
Mobile
Architects
Architects Developers
Developers
Managers
Managers CE Workers
Workers

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E2E Perspective: Microsoft Logical Overview
Business Business Intelligence
Applications BAM for Process BI
Connect to Multiple LOB SQL/SQL BI for
Apps Data Analytics
Orchestrate Business
Process
Apply Business Logic

RFID and Sensor Services

Manage Devices at the Edge
Add Context and Turn Raw Events Distributed Edge Sites Running BizTalk RFID

into
Business-ProcessRelevant
Information
Interpret Events at the Edge Through
Filters, Rules a Alerts

Device Layer
RFID Fixed and
Mobile Readers
Barcode Scanners
PLCs, etc. Mobile RFID Devices running BizTalk RFID
Mobile
Physical Layer
RFID tags, barcodes
Biometric systems
Environmental sensors, etc.

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Runtime Architecture: An Inside Look
Line of Business
BizTalk Server Applications
3
3

BizTalk RFID Server Web

Services
RFID Business Process
4
4 RFID Manager

Event Queue
Event
DSPI Providers Store
Mobile Manager
1
1

BizTalk RFID Mobile

RFID
Readers Applications

RFID Platform
Printers Mobile Providers
Items with 2
2
Attached
RFID Tags
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Mobility Scenarios: Examples
Vertical Task Description

Retail: Put Away RFID forklift reader used to move pallets

from receiving bay to storage shelves.
Warehous
e/Store
Picking Handheld used to process pick list
between back store and front store

Inventory Handheld used to take inventory of

items.

Banking/ Track Assets Handheld used to track loan documents,

high value drugs, or IT hardware assets.
Pharma

Airline Baggage Tags Handheld used to print the boarding pass

and the baggage tags for a customer in
the queue.

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What is BizTalk RFID Mobile?

A lightweight platform that runs on

the device
Supported on Windows CE 5.0 and
Windows Mobile 5.0 & above
Enables rapid mobile application
development
Provides additional services on the
device to communicate with Server

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New Device Form Factors

Handheld Handheld Tag

Barcode and Printer
RFID scanner

Handheld
Barcode and
RFID scanner

Forklift
reader
Portable handheld
Bluetooth computer
Enabled RFID
Reader Mobile RFID Encoder

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Case Study: Rite Care Pharmacy
Transforming warehouse operations wit
real-time data

1000s SKUs
RFID enabled
Order Fulfillment Time

Minimize expired goods warehouse operations Cut in Half

Minimize human errors

Cross docking
Warehouse Space
Unitech hand held RFID Requirements Reduced
Minimize turnaround

readers by 50 Percent
times
Barcodes for human
Scalability to open new
Alphabetic

operations stores increased

categorization is too
rigid
S3 RTVSTM VisiWare
Operations Visibility
solution built on Enhanced
Microsof BizTalk
Server RFID
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 Rite Care New Process Flow
Store orders shipped with Products from suppliers received,
50%less turnaround time and associated & put-away in totes with
lesser mis-ships RFID tags

Location
information used
Incoming store orders
to pick remaining
cross-referenced with
orders with hand-
products received
held application

Additional totes slotted at warehouse,

location dynamically associated based Totes satisfying incoming orders
on RFID tag at bin directly sent to cross-dock

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Example - Apparel Tracking

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 demo
BizTalk RFID Demo

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Demo Aspects Contoso Parking
Scenario
Customer needs to be registered to access the car park
Show reading, identification, enrichment and rules
Aspects
Reading tag data through Provider (DSPI)
View Data in RFID Manager
Storing tag data in database SQL Sink
Register the Cars in the Car Park database, used later for
enrich of tag data
Enrichment of tag data from customer db
Business rules to filter events
SQL Reporting Services, BizTalk RFID Manager To
visualise

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Car Park Demo - Architecture

RFID
Manager

SQL Enrich Business

Sink Tags Rules

DSPI Motorola Provider

XR4800 Reader
Entry Exit

Car Park

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Register the Cars

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BizTalk RFID Manager

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View Tags, Store in SQL Server

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Surface into SQL Reporting
Services

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Tags Read

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Car Park Customer App DB

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Enrichment Event Handler

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Enriched Data report

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Business Rule
Filter out non-registered vehicles
Record the time registered ones enter
Checks if enrichment has occurred so
we allow in

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Customer event status updated

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 BizTalk Server RFID Roadmap

2007 2008 2009 Future

BizTalk RFID BizTalk RFID BizTalk RFID BizTalk RFID

R2 R2 - Mobile 2009
Plug and Play Support for CE Support SQL 2008, Full EPCIS
Support for XP, and Win Mobile VS2008 Support
Vista and W2K3 Rich SDK for CEC 08 support Distributed Dev
Manage devices, Mobile Apps Firmware upgrade RFID in
Event Pipeline, Rich Services like Windows
EPCIS Client
Rules engine and store/forward and WS.* support
filtering at Edge device mgmt Manageability
SDK to build apps LLRP and TDT SCCM
SCOM Pack support

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BizTalk RFID Summary
Make RFID Simple
Deployed in a breadth of scenarios
Leverage BizTalk platform - support
beyond only RFID
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce time to build solutions
Reduce deployment time
Leverage existing investments in
systems/solutions

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Links
Microsoft BizTalk RFID
http://www.microsoft.com/rfid

Microsoft BizTalk Server

http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/default.mspx

Community Forums
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?
ForumGroupID=398&SiteID=1

Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir, http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkrfid

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Do your systems talk
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Thank You!
Case Study: Continental
AG
Inbound Bulk Production Receiving at Continental
AG
We selected the solutions from Xterprise to improve
receiving and tracking processes as part of a corporate lean
initiative towards establishing a Kanban system for bulk
production material. Theyre supply chain expertise and
Microsoft-based platform were the difference. Gokhan Sarpkaya,
Siemens VDO Automotive Corp

Customer service issues TraX-AGR for high

Increased customer
due to inventory definition supply chain service & shelf availability
accuracy problems execution with
Closed-loop management
Misplaced high value automated goods of capital assets
capital equipment receipts into SAP ERP Reusable containers,
Error-prone labor XAM-RTI to manage the totes, etc.
intensive receiving end-to-end processes of
50% Increase in Turns
processes returnable logistics
Coordinated execution
SAP ERP, but WMS not an assets across multiple
option AnalytiX to track 3PL stakeholders
>80,000 reusable performance and
Elimination of non-value
containers assets measure improvement added activities
shrinkage and loss BizTalk RFID and other


Unattended and
No item level Microsoft .NET Platform automated receiving
tracking Software
Will achieve 100%
Multiple stakeholders Solution Rollout in Latin Sarbanes-Oxley
across most processes America compliance
Xterprise Hub and Spoke Architecture
Managing
Managing
Enterprise
>80,000
>80,000 XAM
XAM //TraX
TraX
Assets
Assets Central
Central Server
Server
And
And 100s
100s of
of
Transactions
Transactions AnalytiX
AnalytiX
per
per day
day Data
Data
Warehouse
Warehouse

Facilities and Partners

XAM
XAM
Edge Server
Edge Server

TraX
TraX
Edge
Edge Server
Server

Bar Code RFID Readers RFID Readers

Readers

XARM
XARM
Source
Source
Tagging
Tagging
Server
Server

Direct Span Huntsville

Shipment 3PL VMI
Locations Triana Plant
Suppliers