Intelligent RFID device

IANYWHERE, a subsidiary of Sybase, has released the RFID Anywhere Appliance Edition.

The new product provides RFID hardware manufacturers with embeddable software components to build ‘smart’ readers that include essential security features, support for a variety of communication protocols, the ability to execute logic on-device, remote management and upgrade capabilities and RFID reader multi-protocol support.

With the RFID Anywhere Appliance Edition, engineers can build RFID readers that are both intelligent and easily managed, thereby significantly reducing the cost of ownership.

Through remote management, reader configurations can be quickly and automatically restored, drastically reducing downtime and administrative overhead.

On-device logic can filter and smooth data generated by the reader, ensuring that only essential information is transmitted and thus greatly reducing network data volumes.

RFID Anywhere Appliance Edition provides hardware manufacturers with components to easily engineer intelligence into their readers by taking advantage of the following key features:

* Secure access to the management functions of the device in accordance with existing network authentication policies (ie LDAP, Active Directory)

* Support for multiple standard communication protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP(S), GPIO and EPC Reader protocol 1.1, to facilitate easy application integration and support existing customers

* Ability to set the reader to work autonomously for time and frequency read coordinatio, and control by GPIO events

* API for developing business logic to be executed in the reader, including GPIO and multi-protocol reporting

* Remote configuration and maintenance of RFID readers, including:

- Web-based configuration via HTTP

- Auto-restore of reader configuration (eg post power loss)

- Reader firmware upgrade via the network interface

- SNMP MIB for network appliance and for EPC 1.1 Management 1.0

- Auto-discovery capability for registration of new readers on the network

- Seamless integration with iAnywhere’s RFID Anywhere 2.0 for management of an entire RFID network, even across multiple sites.

RFID Anywhere 2.0 provides administrators the ability to manage multiple RFID devices, including data filtering and aggregation, as well as the execution of business logic.

Additionally, RFID Anywhere Appliance Edition easily integrates with other RFID middleware applications.

iAnywhere and Applied Wireless Identification (AWID) have announced that RFID Anywhere Appliance Edition will be embedded into AWID's MPR 3014 CE intelligent readers.

17-Feb-2006