Financial institutions set RFID tracking standards
The Financial Services Technology Consortium has announced the releasse of its RFID Basic Functional and Numbering Requirements for IT Data Center Assets. The requirements are targeted at IT asset vendors to establish a system for pre-tagging data center equipment in a standard method prior to shipments to data centers.
The requirements are the result of six months of collaboration between consortium members and RFID organizations. The project’s ultimate goal is a standardization of numbering, based on the EPCglobal Electronic Product Code and the GS1 Global Individual Asset Identifier, which would reduce the time required to inventory IT assets when they are received at data centers both in the financial industry and beyond.
The consortium is a collection of financial institutions, other financially oriented corporations, technology providers, government officials and academia which organized in 1993 to employ technology advances and innovative thinking to help solve the business challenges of the financial services industry.
The RFID Basic Functional Requirements and Number Requirements, documented by the FSTC project team are now available on the FSTC web site. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/rfidnews-4.gif)
