so one of the coolest things about the Pavillion is this iForce Solutions Center.
i spent some time there today....
There's a really cool RFID demo...
There I met Zhou Bo of Vision.
This company, in partnership with the iForce Solutions Center in China have built an infrastructure for tracking the supply chain and were giving a demo of it on the floor within the context of a super market example. It was cool.
I also got to talking to the newest member of the tightly-knit circle of techno-celebs who are my personal friends...
Jim Clarke, Sun's Chief RFID Architect.
(like the camera angle? that was my idea.)
And because Jim is indeed one of my close personal friends he introduced me to
Sun and Capgemini are partners... you know the whole demo with the shopping cart... that's generating real time data and if supply chain automation is going to actually happen, real time logic needs to be applied to that data so that business decisions can be made on-the-fly, without benefit of a human brain. that's where Capgemini comes in -- they apply real time logic to the real time data generated in RFID solutions to help customers make good business decisions in a value chain.
(Did you know, Sun just opened a new RFID testing center in Texas? check it out.)
anyway.... some really neat stuff here...
mary
Posted by Noah Campbell on June 04, 2004 at 07:33 AM PDT #