Pallet uses global RFID standard
March 2007
A Plastic pallet provider has coupled an international product coding standard with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, allowing processors to better track their cosmetics products throughout the global supply chain. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) says it has incorporated EPCglobal’s electronic product code (EPC) into its RFID tracking system, enabling its pallets to be identified worldwide.
The royalty-free standards are the foundations in the continuing construction of a global supply chain information network that combines RFID technology, existing communications network infrastructure and EPC, a number for uniquely identifying an item. EPC enables the sharing of information, regardless of RFID technology used, thus speeding up the supply chain and reducing errors.
iGPS claims it will use EPC with global reusable asset identifier codes, which provide a unique identification for each plastic pallet when read by RFID readers, allowing real-time tracking, claims the manufacturer. With multiple embedded RFID tags and visible barcodes in each unit, the pallets are 100% readable.
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