This topic explains third-party event providers that are mainly for location events.
Location Awareness Services for WebSphere® Sensor Events relies on third-party event providers to provide tag position data. The third-party hardware and software must be installed and configured to work before configuring Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events. In general, sufficient hardware must be available to calculate three-dimensional position data for each tag, and it must be installed and configured to provide the necessary positional data.
Event providers monitor areas and feed Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events with tag location data. In turn, devices read the tag signals and send those to the event provider. Device receivers are always associated to an event provider (hub). Event providers are not part of Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events, so they must be defined within Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events. They must be configured for an existing area so that Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events can track tags within that area. They are defined in the Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Sensor Events Administrative Console.
Such transformation rules must be configured for each event provider.