Overview

Welcome to the User Documentation area for Rifidi Edge Server.   This section is geared for new and beginning users of the product who want to get up and running with Rifidi.   Here you will find information on downloading, installing and using Rifidi Toolkit to help in your RFID development.   For further information on the internals of Rifidi and if you wish to get involved please browse over to our Community section.

'Developer Disclaimer' - Rifidi is very actively developed and the code often outpaces the documentation.  

The best way to keep up to date is to browse our wiki or ask questions in our forums in the community section .

Finding Information

Rifidi Edge is a complete RFID Middleware Platform with an edge server and development tools to enable the development and deployment of highly customized RFID applications.   The goal of the product is to provide an open source alternative to popular RFID platforms such as IBM Premises Server and Microsoft Biztalk RFID.   Built on a cutting edge Java OSGI platform and integrated with a powerful open source rules engine (Esper) Rifidi Edge can build complex applications that interact with the most popular RFID and sensor devices available today.

The following links are intended to help new users get started:

System Requirements and Installation

Getting up and Running with Rifidi