EPCglobal Class 1 Gen 2: RFID Specification
White Papers Approved by EPCglobal in December 2004, the Class 1 Gen 2 air interface protocol provides a number of enhancements that will help solidify the adoption of RFID in the UHF band. This paper provides a brief explanation of how Class 1 Gen 2 improves...
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
eGrabber Case Study: EPCglobal
White Papers As a part of EPCglobal's business plan for 2005 they needed to pull a great deal of contact information, that would serve them as leads, from various public online sources. They had to do this in the shortest possible time, which meant they had to...
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Discovery Services - Enabling RFID Traceability in EPCglobal Networks
White Papers The EPCglobal consortium defines standards to enable data sharing of electronic product code related information within and between enterprises, which typically comprises events of RFID readers as well as product information about the tagged...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Enhancing Security of EPCglobal Gen-2 RFID Tag Against Traceability and Cloning
White Papers This paper presents a synchronization-based communication protocol for RFID devices and focuses on the EPCGlobal Class-1 Gen-2 RFID tag which supports only simple cryptographic primitives like Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) and Cyclic...
[September 25, 2009, 2:11]
MIT takes RFID to next stage
News MIT handed off the administration of RFID standards and other duties in September to EPCglobal, a joint venture of the Uniform Code Council and EAN International, which oversee global barcode standards.
[October 24, 2003, 10:00]
Open source 'will solve RFID's image problem'
News The OSI recently formed a consortium of large organisations to create EPCglobal compliant open source software for commercial environments — the group hopes to release the software in the next two years.
[November 7, 2005, 17:10]
NEC lends weight to RFID standards effort
News The company last week became the first Japanese IT firm to join EPCglobal, a Belgium-based organisation seeking to develop RFID standards to work in tandem with a next-generation barcode system called electronic product code.
[May 24, 2004, 10:30]
The Sun Java System RFID Software Architecture
White Papers This white paper describes the Sun Java System RFID Software architecture for enabling the EPCglobal Network. The architecture is specifically designed to address large-scale implementations in enterprises that need to integrate real-time data...
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
RFID Basics for Retailers
White Papers The recently ratified EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 standard and the RFID standards work being done by ISO are key to improving this experience and progressing RFID into the mainstream. Despite the promise that the technology holds, limitations with...
[August 31, 2009, 1:22]
Enabling Information Exchange Between CHEP and Its Customers Using PLUS ID (RFID-Enabled) Pallets
White Papers Through the EPCglobal Network, companies using the Plus ID Service can exchange information about their products in real-time and with improved accuracy. CHEP wanted to develop a capability to share information between trading partners using RFID...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Next-generation RFID tags imminent
News Earlier this month Intermec, Metro Group and Royal Philips Electronics said they had developed an RFID chip that complies with EPCglobal's UHF Electronic Product Code Class 1 Generation 2 (G2) standard.
[April 11, 2005, 18:10]
Storing Data on RFID Tags: A Standards-Based Approach
White Papers EPCglobal, an international industry consortium, has specified a stack of specifications that enable a standardized identifier to be stored on the RFID tag and all object related data to be kept on the network.
[November 20, 2009, 0:25]
Asda: 'We will use RFID'
News Speaking at the GS1 UK EPCglobal conference in London today, Langford said Asda is in the early stages of an implementation. Supermarket giant Asda is to dip its toe into RFID waters, it was confirmed today.
[June 8, 2005, 10:20]
Big Blue founds RFID lab in Japan
News Last week, NEC joined RFID standards body EPCglobal, having recently forged a partnership with equipment maker Tagsys. Vendors in Asia are avidly drumming up support for radio frequency identification technology.
[May 25, 2004, 14:10]
Microsoft establishes RFID council
News The company also said on Monday that it has joined forces with EPCglobal, an organisation that is developing RFID standards for the Electronic Product Code Network. Microsoft is out to take a more formal role in the development of radio-frequency...
[April 6, 2004, 8:45]
RFID: BT says 'yes', survey says 'no'
News E.centre is part of EAN International, a not-for-profit organisation, which is promoting the EPCglobal Network standard for RFID. BT has announced that a newly created business unit will use software agent technology to help companies better manage...
[February 3, 2004, 10:10]
Industry tries to dampen RFID hype
News Although the future of RFID and the companies lining up to supply it looks bright, a number of unresolved issues are keeping discussions more sober than giddy at the nascent industry's annual convention, EPCglobal US Conference 2004.
[September 30, 2004, 12:25]
IBM introduces RFID tools
News EPCGlobal, the group set up to promote the Electronic Product Code, is not an official standards body. IBM is betting on new software to make sense of the reams of data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
