GS1, ETSI, CEN Launch Global RFID Interoperability Forum for Standards
February 29, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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GS1, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) launched the Global Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Interoperability Forum for Standards (GRIFS), which is a project funded by the European Union (EU) with the goal to improve collaboration and maximise the global interoperability of RFID standards.
GRIFS, which started in January 2008 and will last two years, will initiate a forum that will work and grow after the end of the project through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and cooperation between worldwide standard organisations active in RFID, according to GRIFS.
GS1, ETSI and CEN are leading the GRIFS project with the support of 12 GS1 national organisations from Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
The project is funded by the European Commission (EC) Framework Programme 7 for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
GRIFS will work to characterise standards activities taking place worldwide and will also:
- Create liaison activities to disseminate information about the importance of global standards.
- Align RFID standards development globally.
- Create the organization structure.
- Ensure continuing collaboration between standards activities.
As enterprise networks and intelligent supply chains grow in number, size and reach, the requirement for global standards becomes a necessary requisite, said GRIFS.
This support action will focus on the use of RFID in supply chains and related activities.
More information about GRIFS is available at http://www.grifs-project.eu.
Source: Global Interoperability Forum for Standards (GRIFS).