The active diagram below shows some of the components that can be configured when Tractec's Spool & Reel Tracking System, active Infrared Tags and the Event Processing System are used together.  The IR tags send their unique Tag ID, motion sensor status and battery status.  This unique Tag ID is picked-up by IR Sensors (each with their own unique Sensor ID) and sent to a PC running the EPS SubNetIO application.  Any number of SubNetIO applications can be running on a network to facilitate data collection covering very large areas.  The Event processor can have any number of other applications connected to it.  Any number of Event Processing Systems can be interconnected either locally or through telecommunications networks.

The Spool & Reel Tracking System assigns two Infrared Tags per spool of paper (one on each end of the spool).  The Spool & Reel Tracking System maintains current location information for each Spool and the data pertaining to which product is on each spool.  The product data is sent from the host system.  The Reel Server application acts as a communications conduit from the host system to and from the Reel Track application.  Reel (product) data sent from the host system is then sent to the Event Processor so that all applications connected to the Event Processor have access to this product data.  This allows the Map application to display an appropriate icon (based on product type) for each Spool that is displayed by Map.  Additional Spool/Reel data can be displayed by clicking in the Map icons.

This system includes many other components, but for simplicity, only the core components are shown.

Reel Track Dataflow

Last modified: February 11, 2003