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ZTE Communications ›› 2020, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 18-23.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202001004

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Advanced EPC Network ArchitectureBased on Hardware InformationService

HAN Tianyu, ZHU Siyu, XIE Bin, TIAN Juan()   

  1. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing 100191, China
  • Received:2019-12-01 Online:2020-03-25 Published:2020-06-15
  • About author:HAN Tianyu received the B.E. degree in automation from Beijing Jiaotong University, China in 2016, and the M.S. degree from the School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2019. He works at the industrial Internet and Internet of Things Institute, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. His research interests include the areas of industrial Internet and Internet of Things, especially the data model and data sharing mechanism.|ZHU Siyu received her Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She now works at the industrial Internet and Internet of Things Institute, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Research areas include industrial Internet Identifier Resolution, Blockchain and Internet of Things.|XIE Bin received the B.E. degree in automation from Beijing Forestry University, China in 2012, and M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from Beihang University, China in 2019. She is currently a research engineer of the Institute of industrial Internet of Things, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Her research interests include industrial Internet data models and data sharing mechanism for the industrial Internet of Things.|TIAN Juan (tianjuan@caict.ac.cn) received the B.E. degree in electronic information engineering from Chengdu University of Information Technology, China in 2005, and M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Chengdu University of Information Technology in 2008. She is currently a research director of technical research development of the Institute of industrial Internet of Things, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Her research interest includes the area of the industrial Internet with focuses on data acquisition and automatic identi?cation technology, and network communication technology.
  • Supported by:
    the 2018 Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project —— Industrial Internet Identification Resolution System: National Top-Level Node Construction Project (Phase I)

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Abstract:

Object traceability based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an important capability of the Internet of Things (IoT). GS1 EPCglobal, a de-facto standard in RFID technology, develops Electronic Product Code (EPC) network architecture, which mainly includes EPC Information Service (EPCIS), Object Name Service (ONS), and Discovery Service (DS). This architecture is used to capture and share standardized events representing various aspects on EPC object. However, the EPC network architecture also faces challenges; for example, the separate management of unrelated event data and master data may increase time consumption when an application extracts valuable information by combing them. A Hardware-Based Information Service (HIS) device is raised in this paper, which is installed on the specific EPC tagged object directly and this could alleviate the problem above. The HIS could store the event data and master data related to the EPC identifier centrally and the application could gain the basic information based on the data stored in the HIS without utilizing ONS, DS and EPCIS.

Key words: EPCIS, lifecycle information, hardware information service