Why is EPC Gen 2 important?

EPC Gen 2 was designed to work internationally and has other enhancements that are significant, but the real benefit of Gen 2 is that it works anywhere in the world and major manufacturers of chips and tags have lined up behind it.

What is the EPCglobal e-pedigree standard?

The purpose of the EPCglobal e-pedigree standard is to provide the pharmaceutical industry with a common format that supply-chain partners can use to collect pedigree information, upon which providers of pedigree solutions can build their pedigree software offerings....

Why is EPCIS important?

EPCIS provides a standard interface enabling companies in numerous industries to perform track and trace, diversion detection and product authentication. This offers a lower-cost alternative to multiple, partner-specific interfaces, without a need for customized...

What is EPC Gen 2?

Gen 2 is the shorthand name given to EPCglobal’s second-generation EPC air-interface protocol (the laungage tags and readers use to communicate). It was designed to work internationally and has other enhancements, such as a dense reader mode of operation, which...

What is the foundation protocol?

The term “foundation protocol” is sometimes used to describe the second-generation EPC air interface protocol, or UHF Gen 2. EPCglobal calls it the foundation protocol because Gen 2 is designed a way that higher-class tags will also talk to readers. These higher-class...