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Published: EPCIS Secure Standard: Fast Facts
EPCIS Secure Standard: Fast Facts
What is EPCIS?
Electronic Product Code Information Services - or EPCIS - is an open public standard used to track the progress of objects as they move through the supply chain.
EPCIS provides important new capabilities to improve efficiency, security and visibility in the supply chain. It is an industry-neutral, technology-neutral standard that is designed to fit within existing enterprise and security environments, and as such it is a supplement to, not a replacement for, existing enterprise information systems.
The EPCIS standard provides the foundation necessary for the capture, communication and dissemination of EPC data about goods and services products. The EPCIS standard includes a set of interfaces (capture and query) for obtaining and sharing data about unique objects and services both within and across organizations.
How does EPCIS relate to the other EPCglobal Standards?
EPCIS adds another layer to the EPC standards Architecture Framework, building on:
Tag Data Standards (data on the tag)
UHF Gen2 Air Interface Protocol (tag talks to reader)
Reader Protocol (reader talks to middleware)
Application Level Event (filtering and collection of reads)
The EPCIS Capture and Query interface Standard is added to the suite of 9 ratified EPC standards. This new standard will illustrate the value of information sharing at a whole new level.
EPCIS is carrier neutral. Regardless of whether EPC data is carried on an RFID tag, a barcode, or a human readable number, EPCIS is a way to have common visibility about goods and services.
How does EPCIS work?
The data captured during a business event in the supply chain provides the WHAT (object), WHEN (time), WHERE (location) and WHY (business step and status).
That means that trading partners using EPC data can exchange information about the progress of their products, and they can do that as it happens, in real time.
Security is a core component of EPCIS.
Each trading partner controls their own data and makes the determination on which data they wish to share. Rather than inventing yet another security approach, EPCIS leverages tested, trusted methods already in use to exchange information between partners.
What makes EPCIS valuable?
1. EPCIS provides the interface to enable track and trace, product authentication, diversion detection, and other use cases across multiple industries.
A standard interface is a much lower cost alternative to multiple, custom, partner-specific mappings
Companies will not have to customize implementation - leverage the experience of 100s of companies
2. Security is a core concept - Each trading partner keeps their data -partners only move / share data they wish to share on an on-demand basis
3. EPCIS can easily map to existing enterprise applications
Layered architecture can support long-term scalability and flexibility
Avoid locking business event data into any one application
4. EPCIS has no vendor lock in - 20+ companies active in EPCIS SAG -
Interoperability testing with 12 companies - large & small & international
Trading Partners can chose to build their own solution and it will interoperate
EPCIS benefits businesses and consumers
- Business Benefits
- Reduced Out of Stocks
- Improved Promotions Execution
- Counterfeiting Detection
- Diversion Detection
- Electronic Proof of Delivery
- Consumer Benefits
- Product Safety
- Product Availability
How has EPCIS come about?
EPCIS is built based directly on requirements from solution providers and end users.
In July 2006, twelve large and small solution providers from Japan, Korea, and North America thoroughly tested their ability to interoperate using a prototype EPCIS specification. We used test cases from the EPCglobal EPCIS pilots. Based on the successful interoperability event and the minor changes that we made to the EPCIS specification to further ease interoperability, the final EPCIS is now available and ready to be deployed by companies on a broad basis.
Related Press Release: Transformational Impact of EPCIS more than UHF Gen2 Passive RFID Standard
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