A universal tracking assembly that is capable of supporting more than one protocol used in electronic article surveillance labels. A uniform resource locator is received and parsed to identify a URL domain, a parameter, and a first parameter value. A plurality of solid state light sources are connected with the printed circuit. , a base station, transmits signals in a form of packets to a receiving terminal, e. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform. The system includes a feeder information detector, and a feeder information leverager to provide integrity verification, system control andor reporting.