Integrated approach to traceability data management

Globalization of trade and higher volume flows lead to the necessity of new approaches in design of traceability systems. Since containerization becomes a dominant technique in the general cargo trade and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology have already proven to be effective in traceability systems to get data about physical objects, this paper proposes an integrated approach to RFID data management within traceability system for containers. At first, it is proposed to apply peer-to-peer distributed network for data accumulation as the most natural approach to manage a plenty of widely spaced objects that are able to communicate with each other. Then the general idea of ontological approach to store and organize traceability data is expressed in order to enable integration among systems and data through semantic interoperability. Finally, it is proposed to analyze traceability data according to business processes of related organization for detection of any deviations in a process chain.