Strengthening SME competitive advantage through RFID implementation

RFID - From Farm to Fork

Mira Trebar

mira.trebar@fri.uni-lj.si

Andrej Grah

Alejandro Alvarez Melcon,

Alfredo Parreno

SoftCOM 2011 Conference

Objectives & benefits

• Provide authentication of origin.

• Promote safe and quality fish food.

• Assure and improve traceability.

• Implement cold chain control.

• More efficient control of the supply chain.

• Increased productivity through reduced wastage.

EU Project ‘RFID-F2F’

• RFID traceability system

• Fish pilots – Slovenia & Spain

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Farmed fish supply chain

• SMEs

• Consumer

• Business process

• Track the product

• Trace the data

• Technology: Barcode

RFID

Approach & Methodology

• Food traceability – Capture data (From Farm to Fork)

– Query data (From Fork to Farm)

• SCM Questions - Answers

WHAT - Product

WHEN – Time

WHERE – Location

WHY - Business step

• Selection of technology – Barcode

– RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) – EPC (UHF - 860 to 960 MHz)

• GS1 Traceability standards

• EPC Global Network – SCM partners

Fixed/Handheld RFID readers

Customer Fish farm

Processing Transport

RFID in Cold chain

Fish pilot - Slovenia

• Collecting customer orders

• Catch of fish

• Processing – storing - Delivering

Fish pilot - Spain

• Growing fish

• Catch the fish

• Processing - Storing

• Preparing orders - delivering

Traceability web page

http://wmrfid.org/farm2fork/trace.html?uri=tag/302d6d4306800a400000014A

Conclusion

• Fish Supply Chain Traceability systems

• Flexible, scalable and interoperable RFID systems

• Solutions easily transferred to any business process of farmed fish

• Use of a global EPC Information Service structure

• Collecting, storing and displaying data - ‘From Farm to Fork‘

Strengthening SME competitive advantage through RFID implementation

RFID - From Farm to Fork