Neutrino - RadioActive's EPCglobal Network B2B data exchange project

The Neutrino project's goal is to create a set of tools for exchanging data between supply chain partners and interfacing with EPCglobal Network infrastructure such as ONS, Discovery Service(s), and possible EPCglobal managed authentication services. While the Neutrino and Fusion projects both implement various EPCglobal standards such as EPC-IS, Tag Data Standards v2, and Tag Data Translation, the use cases that drive their internal architectures are completely different. For example, security requirements for a middleware event sink oriented EPc-IS instance are completely different from a publicly facing EPC-IS that will receive queries from the public Internet.

Architecture

The project's five main components are:

• Web Services Interface - This component provides the main method for data access by and between trading partners. Depending on the need it can implement both query and pub/sub style interactions. At a minimum it will support the EPC-IS 1.0 standard when that is published. Until then it will support various interfaces as needed for RadioActive defined use cases.
• Local Discovery Service - This component provides global DS publication interfaces as well as a local DS for intranet and private trading partner networks.
• Local ONS - This is a simple interface between Neutrino and the local DNS server (typicall a flavor of BIND).
• Dashboard - This is the main configuration, policy and management interface for Neutrino. This is a web interface for managing a set of XML config files and database entries that determine security settings, access control lists, and event routing policies
• Repository - A database with a simplified EPC-IS interface that provides the main data repository for a Neutrino installation.

Project Resources

• Sourceforge Project
• Mailing List
• Documents
• IRC