RFID Automatic Identification Technology: EAN UCC

Combating Counterfeiting and Enabling Traceability in the Global Healthcare Supply Chain by using the EAN.UCC System

... "Automatic Identification is the umbrella term for technologies that allow machines (typically computers) to automatically identify objects. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is one type of automatic identification technology. Objects are labeled with "tags" (a microchip with a radio frequency antenna) that store data, which defines that object in a structured manner. Using radio waves, the reader wakes up the tags and automatically captures that data, which can then be processed. " ...