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of Collaborative Business Items

The technical approach of the project is based on Collaborative Business Items: these are physical entities in enterprise environments, with embedded sensing, computing and wireless short-range communication. Items have unique digital identities, embody sensors to monitor their state and environmental conditions, communicate peer-to-peer, collaborate in order to fulfil collective services (such as observation of conditions that no single Item could obtain independently), and interface back-end systems to make their service integral with overarching business processes.

There is a rapidly growing technology base available for the development of Items, including advanced identification technologies, embedded wireless sensor devices, network technologies for very small devices, and distributed sensing and context processing technologies. However, there is still a lack of architectures and frameworks for their integration with large-scale and business-critical applications.

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