IBM Launches Global Movement Management, Intermec Partnership
published: cw 47, 2005 in Supply Chain Technology & RFIDIBM has launched Global Movement Management, a new strategic initiative designed to bring greater security and reliability to the movement of people, goods, money, information and transportation equipment around the world.
According to IBM, the program addresses technical and political challenges that historically have hampered efforts to improve security within the global supply chain. The company said it will align many of its core business activities and business-unit expertise to create a platform for new security-related projects throughout the organization. They include IBM capabilities in customs, ports and border management, data analytics and risk management, secure communications and information-sharing technologies, and security systems for identification and credentialing.
IBM has detailed many of the related problems in a white paper titled “Global Movement Management: Security in the Global Economy.” It lays out a vision for a worldwide distributed governance system with open-source system architecture. In a related development, Intermec Technologies has embedded IBM’s WebSphere Device Infrastructure (WRDI) into the Intermec IF5 radio frequency identification (RFID) reader.
The move creates an “intelligent” RFID reader which automates the process of routing and managing incoming data from RFID tags, even from remote locations. The new WRDI capabilities give IF5 readers edge-server capabilities, including the ability to perform on-board decision-making, the partners said. In the process, they added, users can reduce network traffic by filtering incoming data from external RFID tags and sending only the most pertinent information upstream to a company’s application server.
Source: SupplyChainBrain.com
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