Appliance controls RFID traffic

Appliance controls RFID traffic

By Ann Bednarz
Network World, 07/05/04
As companies begin to scale their radio frequency identification implementations from pilot to production mode, gear brought online for reading wireless tags needs to be on par with corporate network standards.
In a production environment, RFID readers need to behave less like simple radio transceivers that pass along unfiltered data and more like network routers capable of routing data intelligently between systems. "An RFID reader can't be some weird thing that you can't authenticate or manage remotely," says Kevin Ashton, vice president of marketing at ThingMagic, a start-up that makes RFID readers.