SkyeAPI™ is the Application Programming Interface used by developers to build applications that talk directly to the RFID reader embedded into any product. Built in the C language, these libraries are flexible and easy to integrate into virtually any program.
Included with every SkyeTek module Developer Kit, SkyeAPI provides companies a quick and intuitive interface to begin building software applications for embedded RFID. The developer is presented with a single, intuitive interface that virtualizes the underlying hardware so that the developer is freed from having to account for RFID-specific elements such as frequencies, air-interface protocols, and tags. The developer merely has to invoke simple commands such as SelectTag, ReadTag, and WriteTag to fully utilize the underlying RFID infrastructure.
SkyeAPI invokes the SkyeTek Protocol & firmware that runs on the reader. The firmware is responsible for executing commands from and returning data to the host application. It also translates high-level API commands into tag-specific commands that are tuned, based on the TagIQ knowledge base, to optimize performance of the tag in the read field. Security policies can also be set to authenticate and authorize the tagged item or person based on the cryptographic or application data on the tag. SkyeAPI also allows application code to run in reader memory for low latency response or to rationalize the number of processors in use.
SkyeAPI allows users to manage:
- Basic and advanced tag manipulation
- Basic and advanced reader manipulation
- Security implementation
The benefits of SkyeAPI's hardware-abstracted C API include:
- RFID expertise is not required
- Faster time-to-market
- Investment protection
- Field upgradeability