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EPCglobal

(Electronic Product Code GLOBAL) The administration of the electronic product code (EPC) system used in RFID tags. EPCglobal falls under the auspices of the GS1 standards organizations. See EPC and GS1.
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Some of the major primary and secondary sources for track and trace solutions included in the report are the World Health Organization (WHO), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), International Standards Organisation (ISO), Electronics Product Code Global Incorporated (EPCglobal), Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA), China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) and others.
According to the new EPC Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol Version 2.0.1 (Gen2v2) all item-level RFID tags are now required to contain a kill switch, but whether or not companies use them is at their discretion (GS1 EPCglobal Inc.
The properties ratified in ISO-18000-6 [8] and recently released EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 version 2 (Gen-2) standards [9] fail to provide the necessary security.
In August 2014, HARTING says it successfully fulfilled the official certification process of the GS1 EPCglobal open standard, making Ha-VIS Middleware the only European product on the market which allows users to implement UHF RFID into projects in a transparent, future-proof and reliably tested way.
Minneapolis, MN, April 23, 2014 --(PR.com)-- According to recent data from computer network EPCglobal, perishable suppliers ship more than 5 billion pallets of temperature-sensitive produce, pharmaceutical and bio-medical products valued at $2.6 trillion per year.
Authentication protocols are categorized into four major classes: protocols based on cryptographic primitives, protocols based on ultra lightweight operations, protocols based on the capabilities of EPCglobal Class1 Generation and protocols based on the notion of physical primitives [16].
EPCglobal [11] proposed EPC network 12-14] to provide real-time data on physical objects by using RFID technology.
It is a GS1 EPCglobal Gen 2 and ISO 18000-6C standard UHF RFID label that measures 1.77 x 0.22 x 0.03 inches (45 x 5.6 x 0.86 mm).
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