Entries by Brian Pause

Is RFID Finally Hitting the Masses?

By Juan Carlos Ramírez (IDLink Solutions) As an RFID entrepreneur I’ve followed closely probably all of the RFID and sensor technologies in the last 3 years of my life. Being part of this exciting emerging technology makes you think about how “smart” things and objects will change the world and the way we live our […]

Dataflow and the Rifidi Edge Server

This is the first in a series of blog posts that give a technical overview of the architecture of the Rifidi Edge Server. The most basic (and important) function of the Rifidi Edge Server is to collect data from sensors, filter them, and deliver them to systems that use the data for business processes.  This […]

What’s in a Name?

Going into the RFID Journal Live trade show, I assumed that I had spent the past eight to ten months of my life developing an edge server — a piece of middleware that connects to RFID readers, collects data from them, filters the data, and pushes the data up to a higher level business application. […]