OAT's Unique Technology: C⁴ Architecture

RFID holds tremendous promise for enhanced business performance, but only if RFID information is actionable for decision-makers at the corporate level. As a pioneer in the RFID industry, OAT's chief technology officer realized this over half a decade ago; consequently, all OAT solutions are built on a C⁴ architecture specifically designed to leverage the unique capabilities of RFID data. Only OAT provides the 4Cs (Capture, Context, Control and Consistency) necessary to make RFID data actionable.

The four Cs are necessary to bring RFID out of the box and into a production environment that is quickly becoming mission critical, multi-site, multi-mandate, and demanding of an ROI from RFID. Only with a C⁴ architecture can you answer the following questions with confidence:

Capture

• How much valuable RFID information is not part of your data model, and lost forever?
• Does your architecture support the easy aggregation of data from multiple sites and enterprise-level feeds from trading partners?

Context

• How confident are you that you are deploying RFID best practices?
• How flexible is your system to handle new business processes?

Control

• How do you know if personnel at the Edge have changed the business rules that define what the data mean?
• How do you know if a reader is malfunctioning in a warehouse when you are at Corporate?

Consistency

• How do you develop a single clean record of goods movement and inventory across the supply chain?
• How do you re-create the physical movement of goods and inventory from RFID data that is error-laden and incomplete?

To learn more about OAT’s rfXML please read our technical whitepaper, "OATSystems: C⁴ Architecture."