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Friday
July 8, 2005
Reva Systems, a venture-backed company
specialising network-intelligent enterprise architecture
for RFID installations, has launched an open source
implementation of the Simple Lightweight RFID Reader
Protocol (SLRRP) within the SourceForge.net open
development community.
Working with industry standards bodies, consortiums,
reader vendors, and reader silicon merchants, Reva has
been facilitating the definition of SLRRP as an open
standard for RFID reader control and data transport in
Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Links to the SLRRP
draft specification and mailing-list may be accessed
directly at its SourceForge web address (http://slrrp.sourceforge.net/). This
article is copyright 2005 UsingRFID.com.
This effort works hand in hand with the definition of
standard RFID air protocols, which govern reader and tag
interactions. According to Reva, SLRRP will support
existing air protocols (such as Auto-ID Class 0/1 and
ISO 18000-6b) as well as recently developed standards
including EPCglobal UHF Gen2 and ISO 18000-6c. The
company also says that SLRRP is future-proofed, having
been designed to allow the introduction of new air
protocols via its plug-in internal architecture.
Call for open development
According to
Reva, the main benefit of this effort to the RFID
end-user community is arguably a reduction in the
inefficiency and confusion inherent in more than a dozen
proprietary reader protocols.
The introduction of open source projects such as this
is aimed at encouraging incumbent RFID reader vendors,
new market entrants and technology suppliers to actively
participate in the ongoing development, refinement and
testing of the SLRRP protocol in a public forum.
According to David Husak, CTO of Reva Systems, "The
implementation of a standard such as SLRRP will
ultimately allow enterprises to select best-of-breed
readers that operate seamlessly with their RFID
applications and enterprise network infrastructure."
Source: Reva Systems
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