A new three-year initiative dedicated to research, development, training and demonstration in the effective use of RFID based on EPCglobal standards. The Building Radio frequency IDentification solutions for the Global Environment (BRIDGE) project brings together a consortium of 31 global organizations and is being supported by the EU with €7,5M funding.
Co-ordinated by global data standards body GS1, participants in the the BRIDGE project comprise universities in Europe and China, including three of the Auto-ID Labs, systems providers, both large and small, together with large scale retailers, manufacturers and SMEs.
“Since its inception, RFID has been hailed as the panacea for a more sophisticated and efficient global supply chain, but there are many questions to answer before this is realised,” says Henri Barthel, technical director at EPCglobal and BRIDGE project co-ordinator. “Cross-industry participation in such a large scale project is a key to its success. The project will transform RFID from being an identification technology into providing an EPCglobal based product information network.”
The project will focus on business based research, provision of information services and hardware (sensors, tags) and software development. This will lead to pilots, deployment and comprehensive training materials in the use of RFID in a variety of business sectors.
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