Product tracking and authentication is a process supported by SmartX solutions for RFID, enabled with the introduction of the SmartX object repository. It provides functionality to track serialized information through the supply chain. It also provides services to authenticate that the serialized product originated from a trusted source and arrived at the intended destination.

It includes the following:
• CAPTURE
– EPCs, hierarchies, locations, and events from local SmartX auto-ID infrastructure instances and third-party systems
– Business object data from back-end ERP and other business applications
– Association of EPC information with business objects such as batches and lots, orders and deliveries, and other characteristics
– Data exchange from trading partners
• PRODUCT TRACKING (via query interface or user interface)
– By EPC – status, location, movements events
– By order or other business characteristics (Lot)
– By issuing alerts via event management (for example, a shipment did not arrive at the intended destination)
• AUTHENTICATION
– EPC authentication
– Extended authentication against secondary characteristic such as tag-ID, or other unique identifier, and location
– Logging of authentication attempts, responses