RFID is an emerging technology — standards are still being defined, interoperability is still limited, and best practices, guidelines and benchmarks are still evolving.

That’s why all components of RFID solutions must be chosen carefully. Patni’s RFID lab evaluates various RFID Solutions, RFID hardware and middleware including their suitability for integration into existing enterprise applications. By leveraging this experience as well as field trials, Patni helps clients choose the right RFID hardware and architecture.

Patni's RFID solutions practice helps clients to:

• Evaluate and select RFID hardware to meet their specific needs
• Evaluate RFID middleware.

Evaluating and Testing RFID Hardware
Patni’s RFID solutions practice helps clients select evaluate and test RFID hardware like tags, readers and printers to determine their suitability for the intended applications. Some of the constraints considered during the evaluation tests include:

• Effect of product size, shape, contents
• Impact of product characteristics like metal/water
• RF characteristics of packaging material
• Product placement configuration on pallets
• Size variation for mixed product stacking on pallets
• Product movement equipment
• Environmental conditions.

Patni offers product evaluation and testing services through partners such as Manhattan Associates in the U.S. and Scanology BV in Europe.

Evaluating RFID Middleware
Patni help clients cut through the confusion of the evolving RFID middleware market to choose the right RFID solution for their applications. Patni helps clients evaluate and select middleware based on required — or desired — functionality, existing enterprise applications, IT infrastructure, scalability requirements and other factors.

Patni’s evaluation framework features:

• Patni’s own middleware evaluation methodology and benchmarks that can be easily tuned to meet solution-specific requirements
• A vendor-neutral approach based on independently defined methodology, criteria and benchmarks, tuned strictly to solution requirements
• Domain expertise to support evaluation, based on Patni’s extensive experience in a broad spectrum of technologies and applications like ERP, SCM, retail, e-Business, application and system Integration, and embedded systems.