InSync Software Inc., provider of sensor-driven business network software, announced the availability of InSync Edgeware 3.1. Edgeware enables enterprises to drive real-time supply chain execution. Using sensor networks and RFID, Edgeware provides enterprise systems with the sense of physical reality that can be used to automate asset-based business activity. Currently deployed across several global business ecosystems, Edgeware 3.1 provides for RFID and sensory device management, business process definition, and process execution in real time.

One of the advantages of the new software is that Edgeware configures multiple sensor devices to provide a representation of the physical process. Beyond RFID, other sensors, such as GPS location, proximity, vision, environmental, and biological, provide item-level context that enriches decision-making capability of enterprise systems. Edgeware supports commercially available RFID and other sensor hardware, connecting these devices across extended supply chains. To manage sensor infrastructure, Edgeware 3.1 features a device manager, SensorNet, which allows customers to configure, monitor, and maintain devices via dashboard-style user interfaces.

According to Sensors Magazine, Edgeware's newly added mobile technology framework further enables distributed computing with the capability for data acquisition and business-logic functions using mobile devices. In addition to mobile device support, Edgeware 3.1 provides a library of applications and an end-to-end route management utility that defines expected material routes across a supply chain. With InSync's deployment services and pre-built applications, implementation time has been reduced by as much as 80%.