OATSystems, IBM and Arcom Collaborate on Enterprise-Class RFID Appliance; OATxpress 5.0 Applications Deploy Directly on Devices.WALTHAM, Mass. & OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan. -- OATSystems(R), Inc., the recognized RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. framework leader, and Arcom, a provider of RFID edge controllers, today announced the first enterprise-class RFID appliance. Specifically, OATxpress 5.0 best practice RFID applications may be flexibly deployed on any combination of enterprise and premises servers and as of today, intelligent readers and Arcom's RFID controller. This flexibility enables the deployment of business processes in a distributed fashion, based on process requirements, mitigating the risk of locking into a single architectural approach that may not scale past a pilot or may fail to address the requirements of various RFID-centric business processes. Arcom is the first edge controller to be validated for OATxpress 5.0 deployments, leveraging IBM's WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure (WRDI WRDI WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure WRDI Write Disable ). WRDI provides a standards-based, embedded environment for deploying distributed applications directly on intelligent readers and edge controllers. "IBM's WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure enables OATSystems and Arcom to help companies implement truly distributed RFID applications for their enterprises," said Scott Burroughs, Solutions Executive, Sensor & Actuator A mechanism that causes a device to be turned on or off, adjusted or moved. The motor and mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive or an arm of a robot is called an actuator. See access arm. Solutions at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . "Implementing business processes that exploit new insights from RFID data and integrating with both legacy and new applications are the key to maximizing the power of RFID to deliver real ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . Implementing those processes on a distributed architecture allows flexible and scalable RFID solutions on top of a robust middleware platform." "OAT's Flexible Architecture enables companies to deploy RFID applications on any combination of devices or servers based on use case requirements," said Marc Osofsky, VP Marketing & Product Management, OATSystems. "With our latest release, OATlogic provides a single, graphical design environment to manage all RFID applications regardless of where they are deployed and OATxpress provides best practice RFID applications which are pre-configured to deploy directly on IBM WRDI-enabled devices such as the Arcom RFID appliance." Enterprise-class RFID appliances are a next generation approach that provide the benefits of the appliances approach such as local operational event processing on a stateless Refers to software that does not keep track of configuration settings, transaction information or any other data for the next session. When a program "does not maintain state" (is stateless) or when the infrastructure of a system prevents a program from maintaining state, it cannot take , hardened box and reduced network dependency, while also adding the major benefit of running the appliance software on a common, flexible enterprise IT class architecture. Enterprise-class RFID appliances provide the following benefits over and above proprietary or closed RFID appliances such as: --Enable numerous RFID use cases with a single common architecture. OATxpress 5.0 RFID applications can run on any deployment option including readers, edge controllers, premises and enterprise servers. --Eliminate lock-in to a single appliance vendor. Using WRDI as a common interface between hardware and software provides for a plug-and-play capability for all WRDI-enabled devices. --Change appliance software functionality remotely. Dozens of best practice OATxpress 5.0 applications may be remotely provisioned to an enterprise-class appliance --Single design environment for all RFID applications no matter where they are running. OATlogic 5.0 provides a single, graphical design environment with point and click capability to assign deployment locations for any primitive. "WRDI provides a cross-platform, standard interface that enables Arcom and OATSystems to deliver an enterprise-class RFID appliance that enables our customers to continue to innovate their RFID enabled processes both now and in the future," said Arlen Nipper nipper a tool for clipping, e.g. for claws and beaks of small cagebirds. hoof nipper a pincer-like tool with the blades curved in to face each other at the ends which are composed of two chisel edges opposing one another. , President, Arcom Control Systems, Inc. "Before WRDI, hardware vendors have had to develop the whole solution themselves, which has led to proprietary technology, rigid architectures and limited application functionality." The OAT-Arcom enterprise-class appliance is available immediately through OATSystems and Arcom Solutions account representatives. About OAT OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. (RFID). As a pioneer in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standards in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include; the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT's multinational client base consists of over 70 customers in retail, CPG CPG central pattern generators. , consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Austin, Chicago Austin, located on the Far West Side of Chicago, Illinois, is the largest (by population) of the city's 77 officially defined community areas (neighborhoods), followed by Lakeview. Its eastern boundary is Cicero Avenue. Its northernmost border is the Milwaukee District/West Line. , London, and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 90 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Software offers a wide range of middleware and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. for all types of computing platforms. The fastest way to get more information about IBM software is through the IBM Software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com. About Arcom Arcom, a Eurotech Group S.p.A (www.eurotech.com) company, is a leading supplier of embedded computer and communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry to industry. Founded in 1982, Arcom has developed a broad range of standard embedded hardware and software solutions for control, data acquisition and data delivery systems. From its design centers in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). (US) and Cambridge (UK), Arcom is also able to offer Design Services to meet the needs of high volume OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and specialized customer requirements. To learn more about Arcom, visit http://www.arcom.com/ibm/rfid-edge-controller-IC.htm or sales@arcom.com |
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