Predictive analysis of RFID supply chain path using long short term memory (LSTM): recurrent neural networks

Prediction of location has gained lot of attention in different applications areas like predicting the path or any deviation like taxi-route, bus route, human trajectory, robot navigation. Prediction of the next location or any path deviation in RFID enabled supply chain path followed in the process is quite a novel area for the related techniques. The paper defines the architecture for the outlier detection in RFID enabled Supply Chain Path based on historical datasets .Given the training datasets, different classification models are compared for the accurate prediction of the outlierness of the path followed by the tagged objects read by RFID readers during the supply chain process. Comparison of Hidden Markov Model(HMM), XGBoost(decision tree based boosting),Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) and state of art technique in RNN known as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) is done .To our knowledge LSTM has never been used for this application area for outlier prediction. For the longer path sequences, LSTM has outperformed over other techniques. The training datasets used here are in the form of the record of the outlier positions in particular path and at particular time and location.