Welcome to the Sun RFID and Sensor Community!

The Sun RFID and Sensor Community is a group of developers working together to make object identity and physical attributes available as practical components of working applications.

Radio frequency identification establishes the identity of things. Sensors discover their attributes. The challenge is to associate both kinds of information in a way that results in pertinent action.

To be successful, software capable of collecting, filtering and distributing RFID and sensor data at the network edge is needed. Sun Microsystems is making the Sun Java System RFID Software freely available as a commercial-grade platform capable of providing the foundation for these applications.

It is clear that successful approaches will be the work of many hands. Join the Sun RFID and Sensor Community. Discover more about installing, configuring and integrating the Sun Java System RFID Software. Find the resources to bootstrap your development. Ask the experts and share your experience for creating world class applications. All members of the Sun RFID developer community are invited to participate.

Sun SeeBeyond's Java Composite Application Platform Suite Now Supports RFID

Sun Microsystems has made its new JCAPS RFID Developer's Kit available on java.net in the JCAPS RFID Project. The developer's kit extends Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite to integrate the Sun Java System RFID Software. JCAPS enhances RFID applications by both by simplifying sophisticated enterprise deployments and by enabling complex B2B transactions. Additionally, it delivers powerful data transformation and integration capabilities for RFID solutions. A retail vendor demo is included to provide a working B2B example.

RFID Shakes, Bakes, Rattles and Rolls at New RFID and Sensor Test Facility

Sun Microsystems has reorganized the Dallas RFID Test Center into its Colorado-based Advanced Product Testing lab in order to add the ability to test RFID and sensor solutions under adverse environmental conditions, such as excessive heat and cold, shock, humidity, vibration, altitude and pressure. The new facility is called the Sun Advanced Product Testing Lab for RFID and Sensors.

Sun's new lab, which will begin operations immediately, is the world's first to combine "industrial-strength" environmental stress testing with comprehensive interoperability and standards-compliance benchmarking. Further information is available at MoreRFID and at the Sun RFID Test Center.

Groovy Goes RFID with Smart Sensors for Real World Control

JavaOne is coming next week and Session TS-5386 will show Groovy scripting driving the Sun Java System RFID software to intelligently manage sensors, RFID, strobes, alarms and Sunspot Java motes.

The task is to control access to valuables. A human sensor determines if a person is in the room. A badge reader determines if the person is authenticated. An RFID reader tracks what valuables are present. And Sunspots determine if the valuables are moving or if their containers are being opened.

Groovy is integrated into the RFID network controller to provide developers with a simple, but powerful, scripting facility to control sensing, triggering and other interactions. RFID tag reading can be initiated and the resulting events caught by Groovy. Sensor data can be read and physical responses actuated.

Come by and attend Session TS-5386, or visit pod #734, Java Technology Enabled Smart RFID Readers, to see the demo. Visit the Groovy RFID Project on-line.