

Gallen, in Switzerland, has developed an open-source RFID prototyping platform called Accada, designed to enable end users, systems integrators and researchers to experiment with EPCglobal network protocols to develop new applications ( Auto-ID Lab Releases Accada RFID Prototyping Platform). The Auto-ID Lab at ETH Zurich/University St. Researchers at the Auto-ID Labs have created an open-source middleware platform known as Fosstrak that performs some filtering and allows users to store data in an EPC Information Service (EPCIS) database (see Open-Source EPCIS Catching On).ĪspireRFID is an open-source RFID middleware project launched during the second half of 2008 by the OW2 Consortium, an independent industry community dedicated to developing open-source-code middleware, and a European research project known as ASPIRE, co-funded by the European Commission in the scope of its Seventh Framework Programme (see AspireRFID Can Lower Deployment Costs). Please outline some of the offerings currently on the market.
