RFID Frequently Asked Question

The EPC by itself tells you no more about a product than a car's license plate tells you about a car. Computers need a way to associate the EPC with information stored elsewhere about the unique item. To help computer systems find and understand information about a product, EPCglobal created the Electronic Product Code Information Service (EPCIS), which uses Internet to allow companies to look up information associated with each item in secure databases.

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• What is the Electronic Product Code?
• How does the EPC work?
• Why is EPC technology important?
• Will there be just one type of EPC?
• What's the EPC header for?
• How can a company track items using EPCs?
• How do companies use the EPC data to become more efficient and more profitable?