ISO amends RFID standard
The amended standard was recently approved by ISO and published for distribution.
Incorporation in the ISO standard comes just 18 months after it was ratified as a hardware standard by EPCglobal in December of 2004. More than a dozen RFID readers, tags and integrated circuits have been certified as Gen 2 compliant by EPCglobal, and are commercially available today. The protocol was submitted to ISO last year for consideration as an ISO global standard.
“This is a significant milestone, because it provides recognition of the work that the EPCglobal community is doing to build user-driven technical standards to advance the adoption of EPC/RFID technologies in supply chains throughout the world,” says Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal.
“The publication of this Amendment to ISO/IEC 18000-6 gives the EPCglobal UHF Gen 2 specification global approval and makes it available to an even wider range of applications. This was the first of hopefully many opportunities for EPCglobal and ISO to co-operate,” says Steve Halliday, chairman of the ISO sub-group responsible for standard.
The EPCglobal Gen 2 standard was initially developed by more than 60 of world’s leading technology companies, and describes the core capabilities required to meet the performance needs set by the end-user community. EPCglobal Gen 2 is a foundational element for creating standard interfaces and protocols to drive the development of RFID hardware products to provide accurate, cost-efficient visibility of information throughout supply chains.
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