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EU project to align RFID standards

stevenkiernan, 7 February 2008

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Packaging applications for RFID will be considered in a new EU-backed project aimed at making it easy for different standards to work together.

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GS1, the not-for-profit standards organisation, is leading the Global RFID Interoperability Forum for Standards (GRIFS) in conjunction with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN).

GS1's EPCglobal business manager David Lyon said a global standard would be "greatly beneficial" in a "more extended supply chain", and firms would gain from improved efficiencies and performance.

"The programme is to ensure that less or no time is wasted in the supply chain [from incompatibility of differing regional systems]," he said.

The two-year project will involve a number of GS1's member organisations from around the world, including in South Africa, Brazil and China.

Lyon said: "We need to capitalise on [the work on standards] that has been done before to achieve consistency."

For more information on the project, visit www.grifs-project.eu.

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