STANDARDS

You may judge the success of a technology by the number of standards created to harness its capability. RFID remains true to this trend! Considerable activity is inderway to create and enhance open standards for RFID such as:

RFID Standards are being adopted and agreed upon, as follows:
ISO 15693 – Smart Labels
ISO 14443 – Contactless payments
ISO 11784 – Livestock
ISO 18000 - Air interface protocol
UCC and EPCglobal
EPC – Class 0, Class 1, Class 1 - version 2, Class 2
Additional detail on ISO RFID STANDARDS:
Air Interface Standard for Item Management

• ISO/IEC 18000-2 LF nominally 132kHz
• ISO/IEC 18000-3 HF 13.56 MHz
• ISO/IEC 18000-4 2.45GHz
• ISO/IEC 18000-6 860 – 960 MHz *
• ISO/IEC 18000-7 433 MHz *

Other ISO conformance standards: 18047-2, 18047-3 and 18047-4. Note 18000-5 and consequently 18047-5 do not exist. There is no 18047-1, as the corresponding part 18000-1 does not specify an air interface. There is another RFID standard for elementary tags 24710. EPCglobal has submitted UHFC1G2 to ISO for consideration as 18000 Part 6 Type C, and this will be discussed by ISO (circa Jan 2005). 18000-6 currently has two types, Type A and Type B **.
Data Syntax Standard (overarching) for RFID

• ISO/IEC 15961
• ISO/IEC 15962
• ISO/IEC 15963
• ISO/IEC 15434 (for data syntax)

RFID performance standard

• ISO/IEC 18046

RFID conformance standards

• ISO/IEC 18047-6
• ISO/IEC 18047-7

Evolving application standards

• 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 - Transport units
• ISO 17366 - Supply chain applications of RFID - Product packaging
• ISO 17367 - Supply chain applications of RFID - Product tagging

EPCglobal and WorldEPCglobal**
Working on many standards, not just air interface ones. EPCglobal have established a number of action groups. The Hardware Action Group, has one sub-working group to define the air interface for C1G2 (Class 1 Generation 2, [as noted above submitted to ISO]). It is also defining a conformance document. The Software Action Group has 8 sub-working groups, defining reader interfaces, filters, security, etc. The Business Action Group has many sub-working groups.
Footnotes:
* ISO/IEC 18000, Part 6 (860 - 960 MHz) and ISO/IEC 18000, Part 7 (433 MHz) were approved as ISO standards on 28 June 2004; per Chris Turner via blog feedback.
** per Alfio Grasso: Research Associate Auto ID Laboratory, ADELAIDEC/- School of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringUniversity of AdelaideNorth Terrace ADELAIDE, SA 5005 AUSTRALIA