Pramari releases new Rifidi Version - RFID’s Next Generation Op
Pramari Announces Open Source RFID Simulation Product
Open Source RFID innovators continue to develop IDE for RFID Solutions
10/4/2007 — Pramari, a world leader in Open Source RFID software, today announced
the public release of Rifidi
Designer. Built in collaboration with the University of Arkansas and other leading RFID organizations, Rifidi Designer marks the first product
providing an end to end solution for building and simulating RFID business processes.
Rifidi Designer is
a design and modeling product which enables the creation of a simulated RFID
infrastructure. Using Rifidi Designer users can design a real-world view of
their business process and ‘virtualize’ the critical RFID components. This
provides users the ability to perform ‘what-if’ analysis on a given process well
in advance of making the full RFID investment.
Pramari, the University of Arkansas's and others have also partnered to provide a standard means for defining RFID
business processes. These business processes will be bundled with Rifidi
Designer providing baseline templates in the areas of supply chain management,
DoD, healthcare and point of sale enabling end users to rapidly customize
scenarios specific to their organization’s needs.
“We believe developing a common approach to describing RFID business
processes is a necessary step for accelerating RFID adoption,” said Justin
Patton, Lab Director at the University of
Arkansas's Research Center.
Hardware vendors and system integrators have also seen the power that such a
tool can bring to their sales and adoption efforts. Rifidi Designer will
speed up development by virtualizing all the RFID components and reduce costs
in prototyping scenarios.
“The ability to simulate an RFID process in software allows customers to
analyze and visualize the benefits of RFID systems,” said George Lu, VP of
Business Development at AWID. “Customers
and end user’s are better educated and this leads to faster adoption of RFID
technologies.”
More information on Rifidi Designer is
available on http://www.rifidi.org or on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rifidi/).
About Pramari
Pramari, the global leader in Open Source RFID, is changing the way RFID
Applications are built and deployed. In building Rifidi, Pramari works with
corporations and universities to deliver the promise of Software Defined RFID.
Rifidi is the only open source and standards based IDE for RFID and enables the
design, development, and testing of an RFID system. Rifidi is a top-ranked
RFID project on SourceForge with over 4,000 downloads in less than a year.
Pramari is headquartered in Manchester, CT with offices in Regensburg, Germany. For additional information, please visit www.pramari.com.
About AWID
Founded in 1997, Applied Wireless Identification Group (AWID) is a leading
manufacturer of RFID equipment. Providing world-class components and subsystem
support to the RFID industry, AWID products are used for asset logistics and
access security. AWID provides a complete line of multi-protocol readers and
reader modules in Low Frequency, High Frequency, and Ultra-High Frequency. For
more information, visit http://www.awid.com.
About University of Arkansas Research Center
For more information about the University of Arkansas Research
Center, see http://itri.uark.edu/rfid/. For more information about the University of Arkansas, see http://www.uark.edu.
AWID will use the Intel® R1000 Transceiver To Deliver Breakthrough Price And Performance In The RFID Reader Module Marketplace
Lake Buena Vista, Florida (RFID Journal Live!) - May 1, 2007 - Applied Wireless Identifications, Inc. (AWID) today announced the launch of a new line of low-cost RFID reader modules. Utilizing the just-launch Intel® R1000 Transceiver and AWID’s innovative and proprietary technology, the new modules will bring to the marketplace a new level of price-performance in a compact form factor with dual-frequency option, thus enable new classes of RFID applications.
AWID already has families of UHF RFID reader modules covering 1-port, 2-port, and 8-port applications. RFID Readers based on these modules were among the first to receive EPCglobal's C1G2 certification, as early as September 2005. While the buzz of RFID has been in supply chain management, the rapid diffusion of RFID technology into new applications calls for compact modules that can be easily embedded and enable a wide array of fixed and mobile RFID systems. The Intel R1000 Transceiver brings a new level of system integration by offering RFID reader radio on a chip. With the Intel R1000 platform, AWID is able to deliver a credit card-sized multi-frequency multi-protocol reader module.
The key features of the new MPR-1710 reader module features include:
• Compact credit card-sized form factor
• Serial and USB interface
• Dual-frequency operation: UHF and optional HF
• Multi-protocol in UHF: ISO-18000-6B and ISO-180006C / EPC Class 1 Generation 2
• Optional HF support: ISO-14443A/B and ISO-15693
• Worldwide radio
• Dense Reader Mode
• Same communication protocol used in AWID’s UHF products.
The optional HF support is particularly aimed at industries where UHF and HF tags co-exist in the supply chain. MPR-1710's unique dual-frequency operations offer customers’ best protection on the equipment investment without compromising performance in either frequency.
“We are excited to be working with the highly integrated Intel R1000 Transceiver -(,” said Dr. Yung-Fu Chang, CEO, AWID. “Utilizing the new Intel R1000 and our creative RFID design expertise and technology allows us to focus on system level innovations where we excel."
“AWID has been a pioneer in offering multi-protocol RFID readers,” said Michael J. Reed, Intel RFID Operation General Manager. “The new MPR-1710 is a very creative utilization of the Intel R1000’s breakthrough integration enabling UHF RFID performance in a small, low power form factor.”
The new MPR-1710 is scheduled to sample in Q2 2007 and enters volume production in Q3 2007.
For more information about Intel® R1000 Transceiver, please visit: www.intel.com/go/R1000. For more information about the new AWID reader module, please visit: http://www.awid.com.
About AWID
Founded in 1997, Applied Wireless Identification Group (AWID) is a leading manufacturer of RFID equipment. Providing world-class components and subsystem support to the RFID industry, AWID products are used for asset logistics and access security. AWID provides a complete line of multi-protocol readers and reader modules in Low Frequency, High Frequency, and Ultra-High Frequency. For more information, visit http://www.awid.com.
George Lu
Applied Wireless Identifications
(408) 465-7003
g.lu@awid.com