Philips looks to EPCglobal market for logistics
Recent RFID mandates from Wal-Mart, Metro, Tesco, Target and the US Department of Defense require logistics and supply chain systems to have RFID technology implementation by 2005. Suppliers to these organisations are currently looking for ways to quickly and effectively employ RFID technology in their supply chain.
The hardware supporting the UCODE EPC 1.19 will also be able to support the G2 specification based on an easily implemented firmware upgrade. Users of the chip in the retail and supply chain environment can make full use of the 256bits of read/write memory to store additional information onto the chip as required.
UCODE EPC 1.19 is already in use. European standards are covered with ranges of 5.2m for write functions and 7.4m for readout. The device also operates under US regulations with ranges of 5.7m and 8.2m for writing and reading, respectively. The chip has an anti-collision speed of 150 tags per second.
