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Everything about Electronic Product Code
Universal identifier for physical object
The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is designed as a universal identifier that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time. The EPC structure is defined in the EPCglobal Tag Data Standard, which is a freely available standard. The canonical representation of an EPC is a URI, namely the 'pure-identity URI' representation that is intended for use when referring to a specific physical object in communications about EPCs among information systems and business application software. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Electronic Product CodeA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Bar code implementation guidelines and tutorialThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Radio frequency identification and the electronic product codeCited 149 times
- Go sideways: GS1A closely related topic
- Go sideways: EPCISA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Radio frequency identification and the electronic product code
Development of a national electronic product code network for the tracking of fast moving consumer goods
Evaluation of Different Electronic Product Code Discovery Service Models
How Inexpensive RFID Is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain: (Innovations Case Narrative: The Electronic Product Code)
A survey on subjecting electronic product code and non‐ID objects to IP identification
Reliability based Radio Frequency Identification Reader Redundant Optimization Model in Electronic Product Code Network
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Bar code implementation guidelines and tutorialLansford C. Bell · 1989
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