Demystifying the EPC Global Network: An explanation of ONS, EPC-IS, and EPC-DS
Bill McBeath - June 28, 2005

Introduction

Many people don't realize that RFID has been used in various applications for more than 60 years. The vast majority of these were closed loop applications using active tags (think big, relatively expensive, reusable tags). But now the theme is worldwide open-ended applications of auto-id. Tagged products move across the end-to-end supply chain without the tags being returned to the source...