Welcome to the Rifidi IDE.   Here you will find information on how to get started.

The goal of Rifidi is to provide a development tool that greatly simplifies the way RFID applications are developed.   The developers of Rifidi are accomplished consultants, engineers, and researchers with the common opinion that RFID development is too complicated and not repeatable.   The goal of Rifidi is to make this process repeatable and simple.

The future of Rifidi will bring a tool that can be used to build fully realized RFID environments.   Similar to building a map or creating a small model, Rifidi will allow you to build virtual versions of your RFID business processes.   Imagine a factory running with many different readers and the tags that flow through it.   The ultimate goal of the Rifidi product is to let you model that and simulate every event that happens in such a system.

Rifidi Version 1.0 is our first step in this process.   It is what we call a 'Virtual Desktop Reader'.   The goal is to simulate the experience of having an RFID reader next to you.   You can do things such as start it up, connect to it, execute commands and read tags.  

'Open Source Disclaimer' - Rifidi is a very actively developed project with new releases every month.   As a result our documentation sometimes lags behind.   If you want to find out about the latest and greatest please visit the documentation section of our web site.

Rifidi is a simulation tool for the development and testing of RFID systems without the need for RFID hardware.   It is an RFID Development environment (RDE) for the growing number of RFID software developers.  

It offers the following features:

  • Functions exactly like a real reader down to the packet level
  • Emulates Serial and TCP communications
  • Alien ALR 9800 Gen 2 Reader Emulation
  • AWID MPR 2010 Gen 2 Reader Emulation
  • Support for creating popular types of EPC tag formats
  • User friendly Eclipse-based development environment
Rifidi is completely open source and allows (actually encourages) it's users to contribute to the roadmap and future of the product.

You can find more information and documentation including support and mailing lists on the following sites:

Rifidi Home Page

Our official home page with docs, bug tracking and other niceness.

Rifidi's Sourceforge Page

Rifidi's Sourceforge page with downloads and sourceforge rankings.

   
   
   
   
 


Found a Problem?

If there is something that doesn't work please report a bug on our web site.

Or you can also request a feature.   Your help and comments can help shape Rifidi and make it more useful for the RFID community.

Need More Help?

Have you read all of our docs?
Still can't get things to work?

Don't worry you can mail us for help on our Support page.