RFID Network: Web Services Architecture ...

The EPC information service, based on a web services architecture, is being created to enable collaboration and data sharing through RFID technology. ...

Via SYS-CON BELGIUM: RFID Network Based On Web Services Model Set To Launch In 2006 ...

... "Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) will provide a central system of record for all enterprise electronic product code-related RFID data by aggregating events from multiple technology platforms. " ...

New companies that provide RFID applications are architecting the systems using web services. ...

Via TC3I: EPCIS ++ provides capability for EPC data acquisition. It implements EPCIS standards and supports AS2 over webservices. ...

... "EPCIS++ facilitates EPC Data sharing across business partners, and also used for consolidating EPC events within a business. It supports a rich cross-enterprise representation of tagged objects, their histories and associated business context. It supports responsive, secure, controlled access to EPC data. " ...

The RFID architecture for the EPC services are a distributed model. ...

Via Institute for Manufacturing at the university of Cambridge: EPC Information Service ...

... "EPC Information Services are very different from the Global Data Synchronization Network [GDSN] (i.e. UCCNet, Transora, WWRE etc.). Whereas GDSN is primarily concerned with synchronization of class-level (SKU-level) master data about products, EPCIS is primarily concerned with sharing of serial-level data. EPC Information Services also have a much more distributed architecture - there is no central provider with EPCIS. " ...