With the Reva device plug-in as part of the Microsoft BizTalk RFID Platform, enterprise customers enjoy the scalability and data accuracy provided by Reva's Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) seamlessly integrated with the power and flexibility of Microsoft's integration and application development environments

The Reva Systems' Tag Acquisition Processor™ (TAP) offers enhanced support for Microsoft's BizTalk Server via the Reva device plug-in which is part of the BizTalk RFID platform. This support is a culmination of Reva's joint efforts with Microsoft and is aimed at customers who need to scale RFID device implementations while leveraging Microsoft integration and application development tools for business process change and value.

In the Microsoft BizTalk RFID ecosystem, the Reva TAP acts as an edge device that aggregates all the readers in a facility creating a cohesive production-scale RFID network infrastructure layer. TAPs streamline RFID deployments and seamlessly integrate with the Microsoft architecture. TAPs produce highly accurate data by transforming collections of autonomous readers into a controlled system that delivers optimal tag capture, and pass high quality data directly to the Microsoft BizTalk environment for sophisticated workflow and business logic processing.

The TAP offers out-of-the-box support for today's industry leading readers as well as newer readers incorporating the recently ratified EPCglobal LLRP (Low Level Reader Protocol) standard interface ensuring that reader additions, upgrades and modifications are facilitated with ease in heterogeneous reader environments. In addition, Reva's patent-pending location processing provides the device abstraction and data cleansing necessary to deliver reliable data to enterprise installations of BizTalk. The business locations that users define with Reva's management console are reflected as high performing "sources" in Microsoft's BizTalk RFID system. Introducing Reva TAPs, at the facility level, to a Microsoft BizTalk RFID implementation significantly increases the ease of operations while reducing the total cost of ownership for scalable deployments.

• TAPs control and optimally operate fixed readers and portal systems while coordinating mobile RFID readers to generate the highest possible levels of accurate tag data capture.
• Reader communications via TCP/IP over wired or wireless LANs and optimized for Cisco and Motorola network equipment.
• Intelligently processes high volumes of acquired tag scan data at a site-wide level, correlating tag reads and utilizing user-defined locations to provide consolidated and meaningful tag observation sources to Microsoft BizTalk Server.
• Provides RFID data services to client applications written in .net that leverage the acquired tag data, isolating them from interactions and physical changes at the tag identification layer, and providing them with high quality, application-ready information
• Provides scalability and load sharing with redundancy against single node failure situations through automatic distribution of services in multi-TAP implementations.
• The Reva Management Console enables users to quickly and easily configure production-scale facilities using a graphical tool to indicate physical device placements and create business locations of interest for tag tracking.

Reva products are delivered by a global network of partners and deployed worldwide by enterprises leveraging innovative RFID applications to generate value in diverse industries. To discuss your RFID deployment requirements and locate a Reva business partner who can deliver a scalable solution for you using the Microsoft BizTalk integration and .net development tools, please visit www.revasystems.com