Overview
What is RFID Single Sign-On?
RFID SSO allows you to access any company resource with RFID badge. Tap and go experience is simple and seamless - tap the RFID badge and can access workstations, applications, and virtual desktops without passwords.
At idemeum we work with many industry verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. For instance, clinicians regularly need to remember eight or more application passwords. Security best practices require those passwords be unique, strong and frequently changed. In the absence of RFID access solutions clinicians will have to type passwords multiple times a day, as often 45 min per day on average. Instead they can tap an existing badge on the reader connected to a workstation and have immediate access to workstation as well as Electronic Health Records (EHR) application.
Deployment architecture
idemeum RFID SSO is a cloud service, therefore there is minimal footprint for you to deploy and manage. Here is a simple diagram for RFID SSO deployment for domain-joined Windows workstations.

There're several major components that will make passwordless login with RFID card possible:
- Desktop application - idemeum application will need to be installed on every workstation. Once installed and paired with idemeum cloud tenant, idemeum application will register as credential provider on Windows and will start processing all login requests with RFID card. You can perform a manual installation for a quick deployment, or you can push the application with silent installer.
- idemeum cloud - idemeum cloud will serve as a management plane for RFID access, where you can manage users, workstations, as well as entitlements to define who has access to what.
- User source - when authenticating users with RFID badge, idemeum needs to know what user account is associated with what badge ID. For this mapping, idemeum can rely on external user source, such as Azure Active Directory, or maintain this mapping in the local directory.
- Domain controller - idemeum desktop application will generate a virtual smart card for each user, and will use that smart card to log employee into domain environment without passwords. We can also support Azure Active Directory upon request.
Supported operating systems
Operating system | Authentication |
---|---|
Windows 10 | Domain-joined |
Windows 11 | Domain-joined |
Windows IoT Enterprise | Domain-joined |
User login flow
Here is the generic user login flow that is performed when the RFID badge is scanned.
- User taps the RFID badge on the badge reader that is connected to a Windows computer over USB port. idemeum desktop application is integrated with the reader, it detects badge tap event and is able to extract that badge number.
- idemeum desktop application communicates with the idemeum tenant that it is registered with, submits the badge number for user look up, and conducts the entitlement check to see if the user has permission to access workstation.
- idemeum cloud connects to user source to validate the badge number and look up user corporate email address that will be used to login into a domain environment (can be local directory or external user source).
- Once the user email is found, it is passed back to idemeum desktop application that in turn generates virtual smart card for the user and uses that smart card to log the user into a domain-joined workstation.