ADiWa - Alliance Digital Product Flow

The Internet of Things Becomes Marketable

The electronic integration of intelligent objects and the Internet has reached a high degree of maturity and is opening a broad range of commercialization opportunities in many areas. This has been fostered by RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and the OPC-standard for non-proprietary communication in the automation technology. The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is an internationally-accepted notation for the communication of intelligent, physical objects among themselves and other computer systems using the Internet.

ADiWa Closes Crucial Gaps

With respect to the Internet of Things, it is important to closely integrate each object/product into the logistic chains and to derive complex activities for inventory control and other business processes by the delivery and selling of RFID-tagged products. The full potential of the Internet of Things can only be made accessible if the processing of dynamic information and the realtime, automated detection and processing of business-related events become more into focus. Throughout its lifecycle, a product passes through many different stations, ranging from its creation to sales and maintenance to exploitation. In order to enable the connection to the different business processes involved by flexible control mechanisms, a complex software logistic needs to be developed. Within the ADiWa project, a powerful consortium from economy and science is aiming to investigate, realize and prove these mechanisms. As such, the goal is to select, compose, control and even create complex, dynamic business processes with refined information from the real world. This can only happen if the gaps between the systems that collect, aggregate and use information on different levels are bridged.

Additional information on this project can be found at the ADiWa Website.