The subject invention relates to systems and methods that distribute
electronic data, such as Electronic Product Code (EPC) data, obtained
from RFID tags by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and/or
servers to agents within an agent-based control system. The systems and
methods employ a component that collects, filters, processes, and stores
electronic product data. The component collects electronic product data
through corresponding reader and/or server interfaces. This data can be
filtered to accept particular electronic product data, processed to a
format suitable to the agents, and stored. Such storage can include
delineating the electronic product data across rows of a table by
electronic product code and across columns of the table by various types
of data. Upon receiving a subscription and/or request from an agent for
electronic product data, the component can obtain and convey the
information to the agent.