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RFID Chipmakers Align on Industry-Wide Serialization Schema

Multi-Vendor Chip-Based Serialization (MCS) simplifies item level tagging with chip-based serial number management option

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Leading UHF Gen 2 RFID technology provider Impinj, Inc. announced industry alignment on a chip-based serialization schema, termed MCS (Multi-Vendor Chip-Based Serialization), to facilitate serialization for brand-owners using passive RFID tags for item level tagging. MCS addresses applications using the Serialized Global Trade Identification (SGTIN-96) for universally identifying products in the supply chain and complies with the guidelines set forth by GS1, the standards body for Electronic Pro...

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