Standards

Generally it can be said that the development of standards is essential for cross-corporation and international use of new technologies. This also applies to RFID. Only standardized products can communicate with one another across boundaries, and form the basis for networked systems.

The major worldwide standardization bodies are the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and EPCglobal (Electronic Product Code). The ISO is responsible for a variety of standards, regulating air interfaces, data protocols and applications for instance. The standard developed by EPCglobal is directed primarily at trade, allocating different products a unique code similar to barcode. But the big advantage compared to barcode is that a single product of a series can be identified (e.g. a yoghurt tub) and that not just the series is classified.

Here is an overview of different RFID standards:

Contactless Smartcards
- ISO 10373: test methods for smart cards
- ISO 10536: close coupling smart cards (range up to 1 cm)
- ISO 14443: proximity coupling smart cards (range up to 10 cm)
- ISO 15693: vicinity smart cards (range up to 1 m)
Container identification (logistics): ISO 10374
Tier identification
- ISO 11784
- ISO 11785: FDX, HDX, SEQ
- ISO 14223: advanced transponders
Tools: ISO 69873
VDI 4470: anti-theft systems for goods
Item management

ISO/IEC 18000
- Part 1: Reference architecture and definition of parameters to be standardized
- Part 2: Parameters for air interface communications below 135 kHz
- Part 3: Parameters for air interface communications at 13.56 MHz
- Part 4: Parameters for air interface communications at 2.45 GHz
- Part 6: Parameters for air interface communications at 860 MHz to 960 MHz
- Part 7: Parameters for active air interface communications at 433 MHz
EPCglobal (Electronic Product Code)

http://www.epcglobalinc.org/
http://www.iso.org/