Features and benefits
WebSphere Sensor Events delivers new and enhanced capabilities to create a robust, flexible, and scalable platform for capturing new business value from sensor data. WebSphere Sensor Events is the platform for integrating new sensor data, identifying the relevant business events from that data using situational event processing, and then integrating and acting upon those events with SOA business processes.
Key Features
Delivers sensor event services which support common use cases and reduce deployment time, cost, and risk
Integrates WebSphere Business Events for advanced event processing and serves as an entry point for BPM and SOA.
Delivers a robust, scalable platform for building sensor solutions, underpinned by proven IBM middleware including WebSphere Application Server and DB2®.
Includes a flexible architecture to support both distributed and centralized deployment models.
Supports Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) interfaces to integrate events with InfoSphere™ Traceability Server and share data with trading partners.
Includes reference use cases and configurable templates for item traceability in pharmaceutical, food, and consumer products applications; reference use cases for returnable container management.
Includes development tools for rapid creation and customization of solutions.
Allows centralized device management including templates for managing and replicating the configuration of common devices.
Supports a variety of passive and active RFID technologies and hardware providers.
Benefits
End-to-end platform supporting a variety of sensor technologies and a wide range of business solutions
Reduced risk through the pre-integrated and tested combination of products, out of the box reference applications, and existing services assets and reports
Ability to implement event-based business rules logic through the embedded event processing engine
Ability to expose rule configuration to technical and business level users through differentiated tools for each group
Proven scalability up to several hundred events per second and 100s of millions of events per year
Flexible architecture that allows remote and local deployment of server components while providing reliable messaging between locations
Adherence to standards ensures compatibility, extensibility and flexibility as the solution implementation grows with customer need
Ability to easily connect to and share information with other systems and applications in the enterprise
