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Radio frequency identification has been used since the 70's to automatically identify objects using radio waves. Today, it promises great benefits from increasing operational efficiency and supply chain visibility to new possibilities of predictive and perceptive automation. With hardware prices reducing drastically and the front-runners adopting it at breath-taking speeds, this may soon be a major strategic advantage over the competitors. Cognizant offers a framework-Rfeady-to visualize, strategize, pilot and implement the innovations using RFID.
 
Cognizant's RfEADY provides an EASY approach to obtain continuous value from RFID readiness.
 
Cognizant's RFID Services
Consulting Services
Our services include requirements profiling, applicability analysis, scenario modeling, technology and vendor evaluation, ROI validation, RFID roadmap and RFID auditing.
 
Implementation Services
Our services focus on application development, middleware development and deployment, performance and scalability tuning and system integration.
 
Cognizant's Tiered Approach for RFID Adoption
Technology Adoption
Involves identification of suitable RFID technology to be implemented, as well as the selection and deployment of RFID hardware and system integration.
 
Strategic Adoption
Focuses on the business application of RFID. The organization can use its upfront investment in RFID by proliferating to other business areas through strategic planning and foresight. Cognizant will partner with its clients to select the most appropriate business areas for RFID adoption, carry out pilot projects and determine the ROI for the next stage of Strategic Adoption with R f oadmap and R f OI.
 
Solution Accelerators

RfID Profiler
A structured questionnaire based tool for understanding the customer/prospect profile, business environment and accessing the scope and drivers for RFID implementation.

R f Analyser - RFID Applicability Analysis
Involves detection, analysis, objective evaluation and selection of RFID application areas in organizational business processes. The business processes are analyzed from the perspective of benefits, change management, infrastructure costs, and system integration and implementation challenges.

RfModeler Scenario Modeling
Models business specific ontology, process orchestration and choreography to visually represent RFID application scenarios. RfModeler can be extended to include organization specific adaptations and is a key enabler to architecting RFID based processes and impact / feasibility studies. Creates a base middleware template for an RFID application.

RfWARE Cognizant's Middleware
Vendor and platform independent middleware, available in both .NET and JAVA platforms. It's layered to separate device level requirements from business process requirements and support easy integration with any third party product. Provides RFID Unit Controller to configure, synchronize and monitor arrays of readers and other middleware components locally as well as remotely across the network and is highly scalable and suitable for broad base implementation.

RfSIM - RFID Simulator
Generates RFID data in EPC and US DoD formats to simulate real time events captured by RFID readers from tags. This data can be fed to RFID middleware for functional, scalability and performance testing with minimal hardware, reducing total time and cost of development. It supports multi-vendor and diverse hardware characteristics, simulates diverse business scenarios, aids ergonomic planning, predictive modeling and piloting for implementation planning.

RfAudit
Technology-auditing solution to measure, validate and improve performance and scalability at the staging phase.

 
Solution Accelerators
"Cognizant proves their value, project after project... by taking time to understand our business needs, they identify and recommend new ways to further improve our systems."
Jay Heubner,
Former Director IT Application Development, Ace Hardware Corporation