Standards and regulations
EPC RFID standards
Standards and specifications provide the common definitions, functionality and language for the hardware and software components of the EPCglobal Network™. They help advance the EPCglobal community toward a common objective, namely, implementing the EPCglobal Network to improve visibility and efficiency in today's global, multi-industry supply chain.
EPCglobal standards
Below are a series of brief desriptions, and links to the EPCglobal resource for each of the standards.
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Architecture Framework This standard defines and describes the EPCglobal Architecture Framework. The EPCglobal Architecture Framework is a collection of interrelated standards for hardware, software, and data interfaces, together with core services that are operated by EPCglobal and its delegates, all in service of a common goal of enhancing the supply chain through the use of Electronic Product Codes (EPCs). |
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Certificate Profile The previous version of this standard used GLNs as part of the digital certificate to identify RFID readers. In order to support additional identification keys, this version deprecates the GLN in favour of the EPC URN defined in the Tag Data Standard. With the URN notation, any GS1 key, including the GLN, may be included in the digital certificate in a standard form. |
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Drug Pedigree Messaging Standard (DPM) This document and its associated attachments specify architecture for the maintenance and exchange of electronic pedigree documents for use by pharmaceutical supply chain participants. The architecture is targeted for use in complying with document-based pedigree laws. The standard may be properly applied anywhere that an open document model is specified or implied in the pedigree regulations. |
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Object Naming Service (ONS) Standard ONS Standards define how the domain name system is used to locate authoritative metadata for the given Electronic Product Code (EPC). |
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EPC IS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) This document is an EPCglobal normative specification that defines the EPC Information Services (EPC IS). The goal of EPC IS is to enable disparate applications to leverage Electronic Product Code (EPC) data via EPC related data sharing, both within and across enterprises. Ultimately, this sharing is aimed at enabling participants in the EPCglobal Network to gain a shared view of the disposition of EPC bearing objects within a relevant business context. This specification is intended to provide a basic capability that meets the above goal. In particular, this specification is designed to meet the requirements of a basic set of use cases that the user community has identified as a minimal useful set. Other use cases and capabilities are expected to be addressed through follow-on versions of this specification, and companion specifications. |
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Application Level Events (ALE) Standard Application Level Events (ALE) specify how the RFID tag data captured by the RFID systems is filtered and logically grouped into a business event. This is an EPCglobal software standard previously known as Savant for filtering and data processing. This standard applies to what is known as EPC RFID middleware. |
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Discovery Configuration and Initialisation (DCI) This GS1 EPCglobal standard specifies an interface between RFID Readers and Access Controllers and the network on which they operate. The purpose of this document is to specify the necessary and optional operations of a Reader and Client that allow them to utilize the network to which they are connected to communicate with other devices, exchange configuration information, and initialize the operation of each Reader, so that the Reader Operations Protocols can be used to control the operation of the Readers to provide tag and other information to the Client. |
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Reader Management (RM) Defines the wire protocol used by management software to monitor the operating status and health of EPCglobal compliant RFID Readers. This document complements both EPCglobal’s Low Level Reader Protocol and Discovery Configuration and Initialisation specifications, In addition, this document defines EPCglobal’s Simple Network Management Protocol’s (SNMP) RFID Management Information Bases (MIB). |
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Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) This document specifies an interface between RFID Readers and Clients. The design of this interface recognises that in some RFID systems, there is a requirement for explicit knowledge of RFID air protocols and the ability to control readers that implement RFID air protocol communications. It also recognises that coupling control to the physical layers of an RFID infrastructure may be useful for the purpose of mitigating RFID interference. The interface described herein, and the functionality it implies, is called "Low Level Reader Protocol", or LLRP. |
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Class 1 Generation 2 UHF Air Interface Protocol Standard (C1G2) Referred to as "Gen 2" EPC Standard, this is an EPCglobal Air Interface Standard for passive UHF (Frequency range between 865 to 960 UHF) that defines the physical and logical requirements for a passive-backscatter, Interrogator Talks First (ITF), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system. Gen 2 EPCglobal Air Interface Standards has recently been ratified as an approved ISO 18006 Part C Standard. |
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EPC RFID Tag Data Standards (TDS) This standard defines how the data is constructed in the RFID tag, how it is encoded on the tag and how it is decoded for use in the information systems layers of the EPC Systems Network. It currently includes EPC encodings for: - GTIN: the GS1 Global Trade Item Number (here, a serialised version) - SSCC: the GS1 Serial Shipping Container Code - GLN: the GS1 Global Location Number - GRAI: the GS1 Global Returnable Asset Identifier - GIAI: the GS1 Global Individual Asset Identifier - GSRN: the GS1 Global Service Relation Number - GDTI: the Global Document Type Identifier |
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EPC RFID Tag Data Translation (TDT) Standard EPC Tag Data Translation (TDT) specification is describes the ways to interpret machine-readable tag data. This standard contains details of the structure and elements of the machine readable markup files and provides guidance on how it validate it using a software system tag data translation. |
