Re: [accada-tdt-user] ASPIRE's BugFixes and Enhancements over Fosstrak Modules

[floerkem <floerkem@MIT.EDU>]

Hi Nikos,

I am not able to comment on all of the suggested improvements to the  
TDT, but I'll start with the ones I can comment on which are the OSGI  
related ones. Mark can comment on the enhancement #3. The latest  
version of Fosstrak TDT already creates an OSGI compliant Manifest  
file that makes it an OSGI bundle. We are using a maven plugin to  
generate the manifest. Can you provide some more details about your  
OSGI enhancements and how they potentially go beyond what we currently  
have?

Christian

ASPIRE enhancements to TDT:

1. Made implementation also OSGI compliant and deployable
2. Provide TDT engine as OSGI service
3. Expanded the Tag types support from Current EPC Global Tags to  
support also:
·       Bar Code Tags (GS1 System)

·       EAN/UPC

·       ITF-14

·       GS1 DataMatrix

·       GS1 DataBar

·       GS1-128

·       ISO norms (15961, 15962, 15963, 15693, 14443, 18092)

·       MAC addresses for bluetooth and zigbee sensors

·       Phone numbers


With the Extended version of TDT the F&C module will be able to  
support more devices (e.g. barcode readers …). The information will be  
able to be filtered from the Fosstrak F&C server, generate the  
required events from the AspireRFID BEG, store them to the Fosstrak  
EPCIS repository and finally translate them again back to their  
original state at the AspireRFID Connector level to deliver them to an  
ERP or WMS.













On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Nikos Kefalakis wrote:

> Dear Fosstrak Developers and Users,
>
> This e-mail proposes a set of enhancements and bugfixes to the  
> Fosstrak code, which have been carried out by the ASPIRE (http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/ 
>  , http://www.fp7-aspire.eu/) project developers. The ASPIRE project  
> would like to contribute these enhancements and bugfixes to the  
> Fosstrak community. This will commence the collaboration between the  
> two projects in order to:
> ·         Ensure compatibility between the two projects, notably  
> between the ASPIRE IDE tools and the Fosstrak EPC compliant  
> middleware. Following this compatibility, Fosstrak users will be  
> able to take advantage of a rich set of tools provided by the ASPIRE  
> development community.
> ·         Enable ASPIRE developers to contribute their future  
> developments to the Fosstrak community.
> As already discussed with the Fosstrak founders, we expect this  
> collaboration to be highly beneficial for both projects, and overall  
> for the RFID Open Source community.
>
> The objective of the attached report is to get feedback from the  
> Fosstrak community on these changes from the both developers and  
> users of the Fosstrak middleware, mainly in terms of how and to what  
> extent they could be adopted.
>
> Your prompt and constructive feedback is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John Soldatos
> Nikos Kefalakis
>
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> John Soldatos, PhD
> AspireRFID Technical Coordinator
> Tel: +30 2106682759
> e-mail: js...@ai...
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> Nikos Kefalakis
> AspireRFID Solution architect and lead developer
> Tel.: +30 210 668 2755
> e-mail: nk...@ai...
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> PS: Sorry for the mail flooding.
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