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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/labs/product-events-without-manual-scan",
 "title": "How Can Product Presence Become a Business Event Without a Manual Scan?",
 "description": "See how RFID reads and sensor measurements become governed business events through association, context, filtering and business rules, and where EPCIS fits.",
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 "direct_answer": "A fixed RFID reader, sensor, gateway or connected device can generate an observation automatically. That does **not** make every read or measurement a business event.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-06",
 "verified_label": "Last verified",
 "datePublished": "2026-09-06",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-06",
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 "primary_sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://ref.gs1.org/architecture/system-architecture/",
   "name": "GS1 System Architecture v12.0.0, October 2024. Used for the separation between capture infrastructure, processing/business context and downstream applications. It is architecture evidence, not proof of a particular deployment."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ref.gs1.org/standards/epcis/2.0.1/",
   "name": "GS1 EPCIS Standard 2.0.1, July 2025. Used for EPCIS event and sensor semantics and the boundary between business-oriented event data and raw sensing. A standard does not establish adoption or event truth."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ref.gs1.org/guidelines/epcis-cbv/",
   "name": "GS1 EPCIS and CBV Implementation Guideline. Used for practical sensor-information and aggregation guidance. It is guidance, not deployment evidence."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sustainability.decathlon.com/product-traceability-and-rfid-technology-at-decathlon",
   "name": "Decathlon, Product traceability and RFID technology. Used as first-party evidence of large-scale item-level RFID infrastructure. It does not establish EPCIS use or error-free capture."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-just-walk-out-rfid-technology",
   "name": "Amazon, Just Walk Out RFID technology. Used as a bounded retail example in which automatic item reads are coupled to a checkout flow."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://about.ups.com/gb/en/newsroom/press-releases/customer-first/ups-s-rfid-sensingtechnologytransformslogisticsindustry-givingcu.html",
   "name": "UPS, RFID sensing technology, 14 April 2026. Used as company-reported evidence of automatic RFID capture at logistics scale in the US network."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.maersk.com/digital-services/captain-peter/services",
   "name": "Maersk, Captain Peter services. Used as a production example of continuous condition/location sensing, alerts and downstream integration. The example is container-level rather than item-level."
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