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■ URIs for EPC patterns, which refer to a set of EPCs for the purpose of EPC
filtering. A pattern of “urn:epc:pat:sgtin-64:3.0652642.[1024-
2047].*” refers to any SGTIN Identifier 64-bit tag with a filter value of three, a
company prefix of 0652642, an item reference in the range from 1024 to 2047 and
any serial number.
An encoding identity layer can also be conceptualized and would comprise a pure
identity together with additional information such as the filter value, rendered into a
specific syntax (typically consisting of value fields of specific sizes). A given pure
identity may have a number of possible encodings, such as a barcode encoding,
various tag encodings, and various URI encodings. Encodings may also incorporate
additional data besides the identity such as the filter value used in some encodings,
in which case the encoding scheme specifies what additional data it can hold.
Finally, a Physical Realization of an Encoding, is an encoding rendered in a concrete
implementation suitable for a particular machine-readable form (such as a specific
kind of radio frequency tag or specific database field). This encoding can be
conceived as a lower layer, like the ISO’s Open System Interconnect with its
modeling of physical entities near the bottom of the stack.
EPC Network
The RFID Software consists of the RFID Event Manager and the RFID Information
Server modules. The RFID Event Manager gathers information from RFID readers,
filters the information, and provides the processed information to the RFID
Information Server module or to a third-party Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
system.
The following illustration shows how the RFID Event Manager and RFID
Information Server fit into the EPC network.
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