The potential to read RFID tags with mobile devices has always been possible in the industrial and commercial sector. In contrast, the use of RFID tags and mobile phones presents a possible exponential growth in the number of RFID data capture devices that will be available.

A Real Time Location System (as defined in ISO/IEC 19762-5) is of a combination of wireless hardware and real time software that is used to continuously determine and provide the real time position of assets and resources equipped with services designed to operate with the system.

There are four zones in an RFID system where security features can be considered and applied:

Our definition of data exchange systems is intended to cover indirect communications between partners, usually through some hub mechanism. We exclude any direct peer-to-peer communication and any data exchange that can be implemented with in-house systems.

The Directives that are discussed in this section have some small direct impact on RFID, as will be discussed below. Their greater impact is on potential applications using RFID to implement the Directive or to assist in the management of systems associated with the Directive.

The application standards of any data carrier technology are independent of the technology standards, but should use them as normative references. They are usually developed by a user body with expert knowledge of the sector being addressed by the application standard.

The data standards address the way data is held in business applications. As such, they are associated with the data dictionaries developed by user organisations for encoding in various AIDC data carriers. In some cases, the legacy requirements of encoding in bar code need to be taken into account with encoding in RFID; in other cases, slightly new approaches can be adopted.

The data encoding and protocol standards address the various types of communication between the RFID interrogator and the application, with the exception of not dealing with the device interface an

The device interface standards and the data application interface protocol standard (see 7.8) are closely related.

There are two primary types of standard within this category: