Transcript Army Total Asset Visibility Enhanced RFID Tracking

Army Total Asset Visibility with
Enhanced RFID Tracking
November 15, 2010
Recorded Demonstration
Data
Storage
System Overview
• Server
Online,
remote
tracking
– Stores data, allows remote
retrieval
• Ruggedized iPhone
– In-the field tracking
• Asset
– Barcode for manual logging of
information
– Zigbee for automated location
logging and monitoring of
asset (humidity, tilt,
unauthorized movement)
• Network
Bar code for manual location logging
In-the-field
tracking
– Connect reader to server
– Connect remote stations to
server
• Status: Currently under
development
IP-Cloud
Asset
Zigbee RFID for logging location
automatically, ensuring proper storage…
Value-added of MIS/2000 iPhone
Tracking Solution
• ATAV Objective:
– Maintain asset visibility as it moves around the world
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Track who handled asset
Where it will be next
Manage asset status
– Find asset on site
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Integrated communications for anywhere
connectivity
– In-the field visibility of asset location
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COTS
– Cheap, easily replaced
– Leverage existing map & GPS capabilities
– Familiar intuitive interface for untrained users
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Desired
Asset
Extensible solution to incorporate later applications
Support multiple servers / data formats with a
common reader
Improvements with Zigbee add-on
– Auto-monitor health of asset with extensible sensors
– Auto-locate even between manual check-ins
Plug in HW to extend connectivity
to: SRW, ZigBee…
User
location
CR + iPhone (MIS/2000)
• COTS for coordinating disaster response with
non first-responders (SAHANA)
• Communicate over civilian infrastructure
when available, set up TVWS network when
not available
• In same vein as Mitola / Fette “Radar
O’Reilly on your phone”
• Other apps:
– Logistics management w/ interface to Zigbee
– Maintenance and Intel apps
• More info:
– Bob Wiebe: [email protected]
Plug in HW supports ad-hoc TVWS network
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Envisioned System Components
RFID Server
Config
Discovery
WWAN / WLAN
Asset Reader
(iPhone)
Our App
MapKit
Tier 1
IP
Gateway
Zigbee
HF
IP
Backbone
Voice / Video /
Picture
GameKit APIs
Secondary
Network Layer
Asset RFID
Asset App
Our Layer (HW)
HF
Zigbee
Zigbee
Conceptual Prototype
• Featured capabilities
– Report location
– Detect, report movement
– Store asset information both locally and at
server
– Capture, store, retrieve pictures of assets?
IP
Backbone
• Want to be able to pull up a picture of what the
asset looked like when originally scanned
– Remotely monitor
Config
Discovery
WWAN / WLAN
Asset Reader
(iPhone)
Our App
Our App
GameKit APIs
Built-in
Bluetooth
GameKit APIs
Built-in
Bluetooth
MapKit
Voice / Video /
Picture
Asset RFID
Mockup
Functional Prototype
• Adds
IP
Backbone
Config
Discovery
WWAN / WLAN
Asset Reader
(iPhone)
Our App
MapKit
Voice / Video /
Picture
GameKit APIs
Custom Zigbee
Sublayer
• Zigbee devices as RFID
• Breadboarded HW module
• Scalable real-time sensor
monitoring
User Login
• Controls access to reader
• Different levels of access
given to different user
classes
• User data stored on
server
Main View
Wireless
Network
Availability
• Five primary menus
– User Information
– Asset location,
movement history
– General asset
management
– Management of local
assets
Manage user
wireless
– Warnings of critical login,
connections
events
View location of assets
Movement history
(Default view)
Manage assets not
immediately accessible Local asset
management
(search…)
Asset warnings
that need
immediate
user attention
Alerts
• Events that need
immediate user attention
– Generally from sensor
information
• Examples
– Pallet is tilting beyond
bounds
– Excess temperature
– Unauthorized movement
Alerts from RFIDs in area
Server
• Role:
– Master data repository for asset
information
– Support searches / queries for assets from
reader
– Merge routine written for later integration
with ATAV
– Authenticate users / roles
• Design notes:
– MySQL for DBMS
• same as internal database in iPhone
• Native support for OpenGIS (geographic info)
– Supports web access of information
• Allows easy access for apps developed by 3rd
parties
– JSON used for data transfer
• Like XML, but more compact
– Local and remote access to server
Database Design
Individual Asset View /
Management
• Fetches information from
server and RFID to ensure
harmonized
• Extensible fields
• User editable
• Select from Set of assets
either from list returned from
search or from RFIDs in area
Online Maintenance
Help
• Each asset has a field that
provides a URL for
maintenance / help
information on that asset
– Possibly a NULL field
• Double-clicking URL spawns
iPhone Browser to start
help located at URL
– Envisioned as webpage
with step-by-step
descriptions of how to
repair / maintain asset
– Possible tie-in to
maintenance history
Map Views
• Allows viewing of own
location and desired
asset
• View lists of assets
from:
– Search results
– RFIDs in the area
• View movement
history of single device
User
location
Related
Asset
Edit Interface
• Allows the field user to
update information
about the asset
– Update descriptions
• Dunnage info
– Update photo
• Note damage…
Asset Manager View
• Provides mechanism
for manually creating
/ deleting /
combining assets in
the field
• Accessibility limited
by user permissions
Device Configuration View
• Provides a means to
configure user options
and allowable wireless
links
Project Status
• Conceptual Prototype
– Operational server, reader,
conceptual RFID (iPhone)
– To be demonstrated in
Hawthorne in December to
refine operation
• Functional Prototype
– Development to begin in
December
– Interface with ZigBee
developer’s kit
– Scalable sensors
• More information:
– Bob Wiebe
[email protected]
NEXT: Functional Prototype
Project Status
• Conceptual Prototype
– Operational server, reader,
conceptual RFID (iPhone)
– To be demonstrated in
Hawthorne in December to
refine operation
• Functional Prototype
– Development to begin in
December
– Interface with ZigBee
developer’s kit
– Scalable sensors
• More information:
– Bob Wiebe
[email protected]
NEXT: Functional Prototype