An EPC based relief supply visibility system in disaster area

Shigeya Suzukishigeya@wide.ad.jp

Auto-ID Lab Japan at Keio University2013/3/19 at GS1 Conference

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Presentation Outline

• Agricultural product traceability

• Relief supply management for disastrous situation– We developed this as a “mode” of Agricultural traceability system

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Agricultural Traceability

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Background: EPC Testbed development

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Motivation

• Mobile and stationary sensors posts data to different platforms– Mobile sensor posts data to EPCIS repository through capture

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– Stationary sensor posts data to another data base and combined to products with SGLN

• By combining these separately collected data into a single system, we can achieve better visibility of products

• Combination of such a visibility system and E-commerce system will be very attractive

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Agricultural Traceability Trial

Powered ID (Temperature sensing)

Box ID Tag

Melon ID Tag (SGTIN)+QR code

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Relief supply management

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Relief supply management in devastated area

• Discrepancy between needed supplies and given supplies– Immediately after the disaster： Food, water, blankets

– Several months after: Appliances and products to sustain living

• Large amount of supplies had to be discarded

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Relief supply management in the devastated area

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Relief supply management

• Category based transactions– Blanket 100– Water bottle 500– SGTIN specified transactions are rare

• Dynamic aggregation topology– Prefecture level– City level– Town level– Community level

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Selection of Product category code

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• Long Term International Deployment– GPC (Global Product Classification) and GDSN.

• Short Term Domestic Deployment– JAN(GTIN) -> 6 digit category code + Product name + etc

– JICFS (JAN Item Code File Service)

– Number of registered product 5,809,454

• Usage– Retailer 4,762– Whole Sale Retailer 694

• Manufactures, system integrator 439

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System overview

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Prototype development

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Summary

• We have developed a testbed based on EPC, and applying it to agricultural products traceability

• We also have developed a relief supply management system as a “mode” of the above system

• We will provide our findings in these application areas

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Backup Slides

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Temperature profile in logistics

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Multiple-carrier logistics visualization

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