Quantifying the Value of RFID and the EPCglobal Architecture Framework in Logistics

Dieter Uckelmann is managing director of the LogDynamics Lab at the University of Bremen. His main research area include the synchronization of material, information, and financial flows under the influence of Auto-ID and billing technologies. Dieter Uckelmann is co-founder and president of the Global RF Lab Alliance – an international network of RFID-focused research organizations with representatives in Europe, USA and Asia and associate editor of the International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications.

• Limiting obstacles to success of RFID and the EPCglobal Network in  logistics.- Electronic information sharing in supply networks.- Performance measurement and cost benefit analysis for RFID and Internet of Things implementations in logistics.- Preconditions for creating economic value through market-driven information pricing and billing in B2B scenarios.- Modelling and prototyping an integration of billing mechanisms into the EPCglobal Network Architecture.- Evaluation of the technical billing-enabled Internet of Things framework.

From the reviews: "In this book version of his dissertation, Uckelmann painstakingly details the limitations and obstacles to success for two key emerging technologies: radio frequency identification (RFID) and the EPCglobal architecture framework. ... Uckelmann demonstrates that the traditional types of cost benefit analyses for these kinds of technology adoption projects are flawed, in that they do not convince managers to adopt them. ... Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how to properly define and evaluate information flows in a supply network." (Ernest Hughes, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2012)