New RFID Bar Code Interoperability Guidelines by GS1

New RFID Bar Code Interoperability Guidelines by GS1I thought you may be interested in GS1 General Specifications as these are the core standards describing how barcodes and identification keys should be used to comply with GS1 standards.

This outlines the best practice for enabling interoperability between bar code, EPC-enabled RFID data carriers and data in business applications. This clarifies the encoding, decoding and handling of GS1 keys and attributes for bar codes and RFID applications. The guideline also describes appropriate data syntaxes at various levels in business application architectures to ensure interoperability.

The RFID Bar Code Interoperability guideline addresses how end users and solution providers can design systems that confront integrating Data Carriers to Business Applications to achieve the greatest degree of interoperability possible. This guideline offers recommendations for best practices designed to indicate the highest degree of interoperability when using these data carriers, especially in any of the following situations:

■ When both bar codes and RFID tags are used together to label physical objects

■ When it is necessary to transfer information from a bar code to an RFID tag or vice versa

■ When deploying information systems that may read and write bar codes and RFID tags

The best practice recommendations in this guideline are derived relevant GS1 Standards including the GS1 General Specifications and the GS1 EPC Tag Data Standard in alignment with the GS1 System Architecture. This guideline does not attempt to reproduce all of the relevant information found in those documents, nor serve as a replacement for them. Where appropriate, this document refers the reader to the relevant standards to provide complete detail on the topics discussed here.

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