IMS PROGRAM Outline Proposal Submitted by: ATI Date: July 1, 2005 1. Ref. Number 3. Full Title 4. Theme 2. Acronym RFID Radio Frequency Identification tags – Passive/Active Independent market analyst predicts that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, including hardware, software and services across all verticals, will be a $6.1 billion market by 2010, three times that of today. RFID and all automatic identification and data capture techniques have four types of standards that must be addressed. 1. Technology standards such as those being developed within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4, specifically ISO/IEC 18000, Part 6 and ISO/IEC 18000, Part 7. 2. Data standards such as those being developed within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 2, specifically ISO/IEC 15434, ISO/IEC 15418, and ISO/IEC 15459. Here is where the standardization of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) would best be addressed. 3. Conformance standards such as those being developed within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 3, specifically ISO/IEC 18047, Part 6 and ISO/IEC 18047, Part 7. 4. Application standards such as those being developed within the ISO TC 122 (Packaging)/104 (Freight Container) Joint Working Group, specifically ISO 17363 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID Freight Containers), ISO 17364 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID - Returnable Transport Items), ISO 17365 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID -
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Transport Units), ISO 17366 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID - Product Packaging), ISO 17367 (Supply Chain Applications of RFID - Product Tagging) Active, passive, specification, standard, tag With the advent of low cost, passive and active RFID tag technology the demand from both the industrial and consumer marketplace is strong. However, the RFID tag does suffer from the lack of industrial and consumer-centric global standards that are still evolving. Today there are numerous manufacturers of the RFID tags; but, not all are subscribing to a uniform set of standards. This lack of uniform international standards has created a problem which will only manifest as RFID products begin to flow across global regions and across industrial sectors. This RFID project intends to focus on the following areas: 1. Drive global compatibility of RFID standards to include frequency allocation. 2. Drive global acceptance of RFID data structure. 3. Provide for logic and data collection development to allow the supply networks to track from inception to usage of products utilizing the RFID tag.
7. Contact details of the proposing party Chuck Anderson ATI andersonc@aticorp.org (843) 760-3588