2019-10-03 Meeting notes

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Last updated: Oct 18, 2019
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Date

Agenda

  • Presentation by Allan Gulley
    • Senior Manager at the Auburn University RFID Lab (since May 2017)
    • Led several industry projects in the Retail and Apparel space.
    • Lead on the CHIP Project - proof-of-concept using Blockchain for serialized data exchange between retail supply chain stakeholders.
    • Present a retail PoC project called CHIP (Chain Integration Pilot) that he has been working on.

Meeting notes

RFID Location

  • 2 hours west of Atlanta
  • They do not develop technology
  • Focused on the business case - discovering solutions

Retail / Apparel Data Flow Today

  • Typically the data is generated by individual participants, not efficient to share
  • EDI not designed to handle the volume and data to handle the granularity

PoC

  • Compile and analyze the data between participants
  • Every single stakeholder had a different way to communicate data
  • Have the brands chose to identify
  • Retailers decided to remain anonymous
  • Pilot will begin early 2020 - solution providers will be needed

Challenges

  • Prevent cloning of tags
    • Difficult to prevent for QR Code but easier to manage with RFID