RFID Technical Integration
This interactive one-day course, designed for experienced IT professionals, provides a comprehensive overview of RFID middleware standards and RFID reader programming. Using a combination of actual RFID readers and reader simulators, participants will gain hands-on programming experience.
Hands-on exercises planned for the course include:
- How to write host software to connect to an RFID reader
- How to configure an RFID reader
- How to read tags from the reader - both on demand and through notifications
- How to interface with I/O devices
- How to receive data from Application Level Events (ALE) middleware applications
Participants will also learn how to use open source tools to pilot RFID enterprise integration.
Experienced supply chain and operations professionals, IT managers and developers, IT solution providers and consultants who have completed Introduction to RFID and RFID Training, and who will be integrating and programming RFID into enterprise information systems should take this course.
Download a Course Fact Sheet: RFID
Technical Integration 
Format: Seminar
Duration: 1 day
There are currently no scheduled dates for this training. Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter to be notified of upcoming training and events.
Instructor Profile
Chris Wassel is the RFID Program Manager at the Penn State Behrend RFID Center of Excellence. Wassel's responsibilities include overseeing the Center's corporate membership and RFID training program. His team has assisted over 20 companies with RFID projects and has trained over 1,200 industry professionals and students in RFID technology. Wassel also manages the Center's state-of-the-art RFID Lab. Wassel holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Penn State Behrend and is an RFID+ Certified Professional.
Brian Zentis is a Program Manager with the Penn State Behrend RFID Center of Excellence overseeing the development of the RFID Enterprise Integration curriculum, and serves as project leader for the RFID Project of the Northwest Pennsylvania Technology Industry Partnership. Prior to joining the RFID Center, he held research, engineering, and quality systems positions in the specialty chemical and plastics industries, and worked as a software engineer developing math educational software. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio license and is CompTIA RFID+ Certified.