Afilias Discovery Services will be at booth 4319 at the Produce Marketing Association's 2009 Fresh Summit.  Stop by to learn how Discovery Services provide full end-to-end traceability in the supply chain.

EPCglobal ist führend in der Entwicklung und Standardisierung des für die RFID-Technologie notwendigen Elektronischen Produktcodes (EPC).

Brian Cute, Afilias VP of Discovery Services, talks about the 'Internet of Things' on the Australian Broadcasting Corp's weekly radio show: Future Tense.

EPCglobal leads the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code^TM (EPC) to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in implementing traceability technolog

Full traceability in the Food Safety industry has been obscured by problems like a lack of uniform identification standards, differing government regulations, limitations of proprietary software systems, and the overall complexity of the food supply. Afilias Discovery Services (ADS) finally provides an answer to these challenges.

Overview of implementing Afilias Discovery Services in a supply chain network

Within a supply chain network, partners use their respective internal business applications to capture life cycle data for products and services, which includes detailed information about the events and transactions that occur in a business process. This stored data enables partners to make business decisions within their own organizations. However, to communicate effectively with one another, supply chain members need a mechanism that enables them to share relevant data in a secure and selective manner.

Afilias Discovery Services (ADS) leverages an open, web services protocol called the Extensible Supply-chain Discovery Service (ESDS) and provides a complementary Object Naming Service (ONS) that is compliant with EPCglobal standards (www.epcglobalinc.org ).

Afilias is offering an ADS Pilot Program to companies interested in testing this new technology. Afilias will provide a toolkit and an open testing environment based on the ESDS open protocol, which is currently in the submission process to the Internet Engineering Task Force www.IETF.org .

ADS Pilot Participant Requirements

Organizations wishing to test the deployment of Afilias Discovery Services need to meet qualifications such as:

ADS enables traceability by providing links to sources of product information along one or more supply chains. This gives tracking and product lifecycle information systems the ability to gather complete information about an product or object's movement through the supply chain.