A comprehensive device integration strategy for your devices and sensors
Below is a snapshot of the services provided by S3Edge for turnkey development of device providers:
Functional providers (end to end provider, suitable for use in POCs and small engagements):
- On demand tag command operations
- Autonomous tag operations
- Basic RFID Manager Integration and support for standard DSPI properties
- Application-level configuration settings [power level, enable/disable antennas]
- On demand tag printing support
- Basic metadata support and provider configuration
- Manual discovery of devices
- Installer / cab package for easy installation and upgrades using ClickOnce
- Support for one wire-protocol / family of devices with similar capabilities
- Testing on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003
- Manual DSPI provider certification requirements and IHV toolkit
Production Ready Providers (enterprise-ready provider, with all features in the functional category and the following additional features):
- Automatic discovery of devices [assuming device supports it]
- GPIO functionality
- Custom properties exposed by the reader
- Custom events exposed by the reader
- Device reboot and reset to factory settings
- Support for DSPI and custom management events
- Microsoft DSPI simulator plug-in implementation
- Automated DSPI provider certification requirements [requires plug-in above]
- Additional hardware innovations that need to be surfaced as DSPI vendor extensions
- Support for multiple wire protocols and model-specific features
Provider Support Services (turnkey development for additional tools for a great out of box experience and scalable deployment):
- Tools for automatic configuration of providers and devices
- Sample solution kits to enable developers to get started with device features
- Troubleshooting tools and workflows
- Localization
- IPV6 Support
- Firmware management
- Support for additional platforms [XP Embedded, specific versions of windows CE]
End to end solutions (end to end solutions that showcase the hardware integration):
- Hardware partner provides solution specification
- Turnkey software engagement to define or re-platform the solution to work over BizTalk RFID
- Implement all provider features required by the solution
- End to end testing of the provider in the context of the solution
