International Standards Organisation (ISO) amend RFID standards to include EPCglobal UHF generation 2 air interface protocol

The amended standard was recently approved by ISO and published for distribution.

Incorporation in the ISO standard comes just 18 months after it was ratified as a hardware standard by EPCglobal in December of 2004. More than a dozen RFID readers, tags and integrated circuits have been certified as Gen 2 compliant by EPCglobal and are commercially available today. The protocol was submitted to ISO last year for consideration and an ISO global standard.

"This is a significant milestone because it provides recognition of the work that EPCglobal community is doing to build user-driven technical standards to advance the adoption of EPC/RFID technologies in supply chains throughout the world." said Raed Al-Samahiji, president and CEO of EAN Bahrain/GS1 Bahrain the sole representative of EPCglobal Inc. in The Kingdom of Bahrain.

"The publication of this Amendment to ISO/IEC 18000-6 gives the EPCglobal UHF Gen 2 specification global approval and makes it available to an even wider range of applications. This was the first of hopefully many opportunities for EPCglobal and ISO to cooperate." said Mr. Raed Al-Samahiji.

The EPCglobal Gen 2 standard was initially developed by more than 60 of the world's leading technology companies and describes the core capabilities required to meet the performance needs set by the end user community. EPCglobal Gen 2 is a foundational element for creating standard interface and protocols to drive the development of new RFID hardware products to provide accurate, cost-efficient visibility of information throughout supply chains.