Developing for RFID with Daniel Simmons
Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Simmons about his work with PasTrak, building RFID tools for small businesses. The first half of the conversation focuses on what RFID is all about - different types of tags, scanners, security concerns, and so on. There's a lot of choice out there when it comes to RFID and its cousin Near Field Communications (NFC). Then Danny digs into the coding side of things - the various APIs you work with to handle different readers, how your code responds, how to deal with duplicate data and data overload...all the fun things that happen when you interact with the real world!
Guests:
Daniel Simmons
Daniel Simmons is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft having rejoined in 2015 after a momentary lapse of reason. He is the one engineer on the PROSE team in Azure Information Management and Machine Learning. He was once involved in Entity Framework, but we have forgiven him for that.
Links:
- Buxton RFID Identity Safe Wallet http://www.amazon.com/Buxton-RFID-Identity-Safe-Wallet/dp/B00G6MWNBK
- RepRap 3D Printers http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
- Impinj RFID Readers http://www.impinj.com/
- ThingMagic RFID Readers http://www.thingmagic.com/
- PasTrak http://pastrak.com/