CASAGRAS: RFID stakeholders world-wide urged to join EU project’s Global Forum

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(2009), "CASAGRAS: RFID stakeholders world-wide urged to join EU project’s Global Forum", Assembly Automation, Vol. 29 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2009.03329aab.001

CASAGRAS: RFID stakeholders world-wide urged to join EU project’s Global Forum

Article Type: News From: Assembly Automation, Volume 29, Issue 1

RFID stakeholders around the world are being urged to participate in the European Commission-funded CASAGRAS project by joining its new, free, Global Forum at: www.rfidglobal.eu

CASAGRAS is an EU Framework, seven project aimed at promoting international collaboration on RFID standardisation with particular reference to the emerging Internet of Things. Its partners represent the UK, Korea, Japan, China, the USA, Germany and France.

Project co-ordinator Ian G. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the UK-based European Centre of Excellence for AIDC, said: “It’s an exciting time for anyone involved with RFID and its associated technologies. The international move towards the development of an Internet of Things continues to raise the profile of RFID as a technology with enormous potential to revolutionise global markets, bringing both economic and societal benefits.”

CASAGRAS would consider how best to meet the global challenges and maximize the opportunities. It would examine global standards, regulatory and other issues concerning RFID and provide a framework of foundation studies to assist the international community to accommodate the issues concerning RFID and the Internet of Things, Smith added.

“CASAGRAS is one of the most important RFID projects ever funded by the European Commission with its brief to make recommendations and to propose standards and best practice that can be agreed and applied world-wide.

We want the widest possible input of opinions and ideas and are urging anyone with an interest in RFID and its applications to join our free RFID Forum and express their views strongly. By doing so they can influence the project’s findings and help shape the future for RFID.”

Among the key topics being addressed by CASAGRAS are:

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  the need for a global coding or numbering system that embraces existing legacy systems including EPC, ubiquitous ID;

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  an adopted set of data carrier and natural feature technologies and associated data structure and communication protocols to meet the needs of the Internet of Things;

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  a universal data appliance protocol to accommodate the range of heterogeneous network technologies and protocols called for with respect to the Internet of Things;

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  migration strategy to specify a pathway development and agreements that will be necessary in realising the Internet of Things; and

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  the need and form for supporting international standards.

Partners in the CASAGRAS project have filed their Interim Report with the European Commission. To read its findings and to join the RFID Global Forum, please visit the website: www.rfidglobal.eu