Vision and Challenges for Realising the Internet of Things

iSURF Project develops knowledgeoriented
inter-enterprise collaboration
tools for European SMEs to
enable them to be more agile, selfsustainable
and responsive to the
changes in the supply chain. An open
smart product infrastructure is developed
to collect supply chain visibility
information and an interoperability
service utility is provided for seamless
exchange of planning documents.
The Need for Open Collaboration
Framework for SMEs
Trading partners in supply chain have different
competencies based on their business
strategies and varying sources of information.
Competitiveness of European Companies is
reduced when decision making is inconsistent
due to incomplete understanding of the impact
of decision on the supply chain as a
whole. The distributed intelligence of multiple
trading partners needs to be collaboratively
exploited in the planning and fulfilment
of customer demand in the supply chain in
order to achieve “network is the business”
vision.
As a response to this need, iSURF project is
providing a knowledge-oriented interenterprise
collaboration environment for
SMEs.
Project Results
iSURF project provides a Service Oriented
Collaborative Supply Chain Planning Process
Definition and Execution Platform based on
CPFR® guidelines. This tool enables the Collaborative
Supply Chain Planning Processes
to be graphically customized to the needs of
supply chain partners, and provides wizards
to deploy the planning process to the premises
of the supply chain partners as executable
business processes.
iSURF project provides a Semantic Interoperability
Service Utility for achieving the semantic
reconciliation of the planning and
forecasting business documents exchanged
between the companies conforming to different
standards based on UN/CEFACT Core
Component Technical Specification
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees
/tc_home. php?wg_abbrev=set).
In addition to this we have developed a tool,
called eDoCreator which helps to design electronic
business documents by using the core
components in the UN/CEFACT Core Component
Library (CCL) by constraining them to
the defined context.
iSURF project provides an open source smart
product infrastructure based on RFID technology
using EPCglobal standards. Through
this infrastructure, necessary tools and processes
are provided to collect real-time product
visibility events from massively distributed
RFID devices; filter, correlate and aggregate
them in order to put them into business
context. On top of this, iSURF provides
easy to use interfaces to use GDSN Data
Pools.
The iSURF architecture will be deployed in
the premises Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A., a manufacturer
of noble fibres fabrics and pure
cashmere clothing and accessories.
iSURF Results are available from:
http://isurf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/isurf
/trunk/ and http://www.isurfProject.eu
Further information:
iSURF
An Interoperability Framework
for Collaborative Planning
Partners: METU, SRDC Ltd. , INTEL, Fraunhofer
-IPA, TXT E-Solutions, UNINOVA, Fratelli
PIACENZA
Contact: Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac;
Computer Engineering Department,
Middle East Technical University
Campus; TR-06531 Ankara
Turkey
Tel.: +90-312-2101 393
E-mail: Asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr
Internet: www.isurfProject.eu
Duration: 01.02.08 – 31.07.10 - 30 Months
CERP-IoT – Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things
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