What is Rifidi?
Rifidi is a complete middleware platform for building all facets of an RFID application.   With the industry leading prototyping tools and a cutting edge RFID middleware server, Rifidi can take you from an RFID Idea to a production application. 

Rifidi makes it possible to do rapid RFID prototyping and production deployments on a high performance, open source platform.

Product Information
The Rifidi Platform is composed of two distinct product sets one with a focus on prototyping and the other focused on production application development and deployment.

Rifidi Toolkit is a Eclipse based IDE aimed at prototyping and simulating the RFID hardware and RFID Events in an RFID ecosystem.   With Toolkit it is possible to build a 'Virtual' RFID infrastructure with Software Defined RFID Readers, RFID Tags, and RFID Events that behave just like their real-life counterparts.

Rifidi Edge is a robust middleware platform for developing and deploying RFID applications. Rifidi Edge takes care of the complexities in interacting with RFID and other sensor devices and provides a high perfomance rules engine called Esper that has been customized for RFID data processing.   Built on top of a lightweight, modular deployment, server platform called Equinox OSGI, Rifidi Edge gives you a powerful environment to create business applications that interact with RFID Hardware and process RFID Data.


How to Use Rifidi
The ideal usage scenario for Rifidi would start from when you or your customers have come up with a business idea for using RFID and wish to implement it either as a prototype or in production.   The following scenario illustrates how you can move forward using Rifidi products.

Using Rifidi from Prototype to Production

  1. Come up with an RFID Business/Use Case
  2. Protype the Use Case with Rifidi Toolkit to mimic readers & tag events
  3. Create Business Rules using our templates & development environment as an accelerator
  4. Deploy rules on Rifidi Edge Server & test applications against Rifidi Toolkit
  5. Set up Real RFID Hardware & Environment
  6. Connect Rifidi Edge Server & your application to real hardware
  7. Win praise from management & customers for building a well thought out system so quickly

Rifidi Platform
Toolkit - RFID Prototyping Edge Server - RFID Middleware Workbench - Edge Server Client
 






              

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