From the Editor's Desk

Welcome to the latest issue of the High Tech AIDCourier.

This year certainly seems to be flying past us. It seems amazing to me that April is upon us and that RFID Journal Live is just around the corner.

The Journal Live show should be a good barometer of the state of the RFID industry and I am looking forward to seeing who is there and who is not. In past years we have seen great shows and average shows. Could this be the one that signals the return to normality? I will be at the show, so drop me a note if you want to meet there.

March was a really busy month for standards (see below) and April looks like being as busy. If you want to know more about standards, then let me know, we are working on a new opportunity for everyone to get more information.

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RFID Standards

March was a very busy month for standards with a two week long meeting in Korea of several of the SC31 standards groups.

The week started with WG4/SG1 RFID Application Interface Protocols where the discussions focused on the mechanism of how file management in an RFID tag might work. This work will be built into the new standard ISO/IEC 29167 that covers security and file management.

Following this meeting WG4/SG3 RFID Air Interfaces met. The main reason for meeting was to hold a ballot resolution meeting (BRM) for ISO/IEC 18000-6 UHF RFID. There have been many changes to the published standard and this BRM was the latest in the progress of the document. The standard has been modified to include support for a Type D tag, battery assisted tags and the use of sensors by the tag. The group resolved all the comments and agreed to send it to FDIS ballot and subsequent publication.

Next the WG4/SG5 RFID Implementation Guidelines met. This group spent most of its time working on a BRM for ISO/IEC 200017 "Experimental evaluation method for impact distance and mitigation method of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) from RFID interrogators on active implantable medical devices". The PDTR ballot received many comments and it was agreed that the document should be sent back to the working group to allow the document to be improved.

WG6 Mobile Identification and Item Management, have many documents related to the use of RFID with mobile devices. All of these documents required a BRM after the latest round of balloting. All of these documents were either sent on to the next round of a balloting or back to redo the current round.

WG7 File Management and Security has one work item, ISO/IEC 29167. This document is still in working draft form and is made up of, a general part and then parts specific to various RFID air interface standards (ISO/IEC 18000). It will include a means of creating a highly secure RFID tag.

The final group to meet was WG5 RTLS and their work is concentrated on a revision to ISO/IEC 24730-2 and a new work item ISO/IEC 24730-6 Ultra Wide Band.

If you want more information on ISO standardization or on any issue of RFID standardization, then email steve@hightechaid.com.

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