BRIDGE Project Enters Second Year for Testing, Piloting RFID Applications
August 10, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Building Radio frequency IDentification for the Global Environment (BRIDGE) project is entering a key phase in the future deployment of EPCglobal applications, according to GS1.
The initiative, which is supported by the European Commission (EC) and coordinated by GS1, will begin its penultimate year with the execution of real-life pilots, developing business cases and demonstrating results.
The objective of the project is to research, develop and implement tools to enable the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) and EPCglobal applications in Europe. It involves 30 organisations from 12 countries in Europe and China.
During the first year, the business cluster conducted problem analysis and requirements analysis in seven areas:
- Anti-counterfeiting.
- Pharmaceuticals traceability.
- Textile industry.
- Food manufacturing.
- Reusable assets.
- products in service.
- Item-level tagging in retail for nonfood products.
On the technical side, the BRIDGE project comprises four working groups concentrating on RFID hardware, network lookup services, network supply chain control and security.
The RFID hardware group registered a patent on a "self resonant electrically small antenna" and developed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) low cost reader. A reader chipset and a low cost portal reader will be produced in the coming months.
BRIDGE developed a requirements analysis and technical design documents for discovery services, which will be released by the end of August 2007. These will contribute to future standards development activities on discovery services.
A report on an enhanced serial-level inventory tracking model is also available. The security working group issued a security analysis documenting the requirements for enabling open and collaborative RFID-based business applications.
The project's horizontal activities include training, dissemination activities and innovation and policy reports.
The project finished a training requirement analysis and produced concept animators including multimedia learning objects that illustrate the use of RFID/EPC and their applications.
Finally, BRIDGE developed a high-level reports analysis related to the evolution towards the ubiquitous presence of the technology as well as the impact that this technology will have on policies that are governed by the European institutions, said GS1.
Source: GS1.