09-04-06 10:12
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BY: BROCK, DAVID L.

The Electronic Product Code (EPC) was conceived as a means to identify all physical objects. The EPC was intended to be a short, simple and extensible code designed primarily to reference networked information. A 96-bit Electronic Product Code has been defines; however, the incremental cost of encoding additional bits on electronic tags prompted the investigation of a reduced size, or “compact,” Electronic Product Code. This paper explores a reduced bit count from the original 96-bit version of the EPC and proposes a specific 64-bit variant of the Electronic Product Code.

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