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GS1 and ISO (International Standards Organisation)

ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) consists of 157 national body members and is a well know and respected developer of international standards. Since its inception in 1947, ISO has developed and published, for a broad array of subjects, more than 16,500 international standards.

We commonly use, as a short cut, the term ISO to include other international standards development organizations such as IEC (the International Electrotechnical Committee founded in 1906) and “JTC 1” (Joint Technical Committee 1 of ISO/IEC). Each of these organizations is an important contributor in the development of global standards supporting the GS1 System.

GS1 is also a well know and respected developer of global application standards (e.g. the GS1 General Specifications). The GS1 application standards reference specific ISO “core” technical standards that are needed to implement the GS1 applications. For example: the ISO/IEC standard for EAN/UPC symbology describes how to construct the EAN/UPC symbol and the GS1 General Specifications specify data content, symbol print quality, conformance requirements and application usage. There is a symbiosis that exists between GS1 and these organizations since both the technical and application standards are necessary for any implementation of the system.

Consensus and Connection

Each of these organizations provides standards that are consensus driven through an international community of members. Sharing similar philosophy, process and procedure offers opportunity to work together on many levels. The most productive outcome of this relationship has been the work accomplished with the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) for Information Technology. In particular, Subcommittee 31 of JTC 1 (Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques) has been an enduring and fruitful cooperative relationship. Here’s how GS1 has been, and continues to be, involved in the “ISO” process:

  • GS1 was instrumental in the founding of ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 31
  • GS1 US holds the SC 31 Secretariat and has administered the Secretariat since its inception.
    • Secretariats may only be held by a National Body therefore only a GS1 MO may hold that position.
    • The United States (ANSI) was chosen to be SC 31 Secretariat by the JTC 1 Community
    • GS1 US (ANSI accredited member) administers the SC 31 Secretariat
  • GS1 has a Liaison relationship to JTC 1 SC 31 and its Working Groups
  • EPCglobal, Inc. is in the process of establishing a separate Liaison relationship with
  • JTC 1 SC 31 and specific RFID related Working Groups.
  • Many GS1 MO members actively participate in the activities of SC 31 as members of their individual National Committee (National Body)
  • Many GS1 MO members actively participate in SC 31 Working Groups as “Experts” assigned through their National Committee (National Body)
  • GS1 GO and GS1 MO members serve as SC 31 Working Group Conveners (Chairman) and Secretaries.

The Results

The results of this collaboration have been nothing short of spectacular. The following lists the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 Working Groups (WG) and their Subgroups (SG) and the standards published by these groups that are core technical standards for the GS1 System. The standards shown in blue indicate that these standards are exclusive to the GS1 System.

  • Working Group 1 develops technical standards for optically readable media. The focus of this working group is on one and two dimensional bar code symbologies and optical character recognition (OCR-A and OCR-B).
  • Working Group 2 develops technical standards for data structures used for automatic identification applications.
  • Working Group 3 develops technical conformance standards for automatic identification applications of optical and RFID technologies.
  • Working Group 4 develops technical standards for RFID technology. Multiple frequency bands are addresses by this working group including the UHF band with EPC content fully covered.

Data Carriers (SC 31/WG 1)

  • ISO/IEC 15420: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code symbology specification -- EAN/UPC
  • ISO/IEC 15417: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code symbology specification -- Code 128
  • ISO/IEC 15438: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- PDF417 bar code symbology specification
  • ISO/IEC 15424: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Data Carrier Identifiers (including Symbology Identifiers)
  • ISO/IEC 16022: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Data Matrix bar code symbology specification
  • ISO/IEC 16390: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code symbology specifications -- Interleaved 2 of 5
  • ISO/IEC 24723: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- EAN.UCC Composite bar code symbology specification (Currently being renamed GS1 Composite bar code symbology specification)
  • ISO/IEC 24724: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) bar code symbology specification (Currently being renamed GS1 DataBar bar code symbology specification)
  • ISO/IEC 24728: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- MicroPDF417 bar code symbology specification

Data Structure (SC 31/WG 2)

  • ISO/IEC 15418: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- GS1 Application Identifiers and ASC MH 10 Data Identifiers and Maintenance
  • ISO/IEC 15434: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Syntax for high capacity ADC media
  • ISO/IEC 15459: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Unique identifiers

Conformance (SC 31/WG 3)

  • ISO/IEC 15415: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code print quality test specification -- Two-dimensional symbols
  • ISO/IEC 15416: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code print quality test specification -- Linear symbols
  • ISO/IEC 15419: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code digital imaging and printing performance testing
  • ISO/IEC 15421: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code master test specifications
  • ISO/IEC 15423: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code scanner and decoder performance testing
  • ISO/IEC 15426-1: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code verifier conformance specification -- Part 1: Linear symbols
  • ISO/IEC 15426-2: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Bar code verifier conformance specification Part 2: Two-dimensional symbols
  • ISO/IEC 19782: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Effects of gloss and low substrate opacity on reading of bar code symbols
  • ISO/IEC 24720: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Guidelines for direct part marking (DPM)

RFID Conformance (SC 31/WG 3/SG 1)

  • ISO/IEC 18046: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Radio frequency identification device performance test methods
  • ISO/IEC 18047-6: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification device conformance test methods -- Part 6: Test methods for air interface communications at 860 MHz to 960 MHz

RFID for Item Management (SC 31/WG 4/SG 1)

  • ISO/IEC 15961: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management -- Data protocol
  • ISO/IEC 15962: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management -- Data protocol: data encoding rules and logical memory functions
  • ISO/IEC 2479: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management -- Software system infrastructure

RFID for Item Management (SC 31/WG 4/SG 2)

  • ISO/IEC 15963: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management -- Unique identification for RF tag

RFID for Item Management (SC 31/WG 4/SG 3)

  • ISO/IEC 18001: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Application requirements profiles
  • ISO/IEC 18000-1: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Part 1: Reference architecture and definition of parameters to be standardized
  • ISO/IEC 18000-6: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Part 6: Parameters for air interface communications at 860 MHz to 960 MHz
  • ISO/IEC 24710: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Elementary tag license plate functionality for ISO/IEC 18000 air interface definitions

RFID for Item Management (SC 31/WG 4/SG 5)

  • ISO/IEC 24729-1: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Implementation guidelines -- Part 1: RFID-enabled labels
  • ISO/IEC 24729-2: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management -- Implementation guidelines -- Part 2: Recycling and RF tags
  • ISO/IEC 24729-3: Information technology -- Radio frequency identification for item management -- Implementation guidelines -- Part 3: Implementation and operation of UHF RFID Interrogator systems in logistic applications

Vocabulary

  • ISO/IEC 19762: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- Harmonized vocabulary -- Abbreviations
  • ISO/IEC 19762-1: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques -- Harmonized vocabulary -- Part 1: General terms relating to AIDC
  • ISO/IEC 19762-2: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques -- Harmonized vocabulary -- Part 2: Optically readable media (ORM)
  • ISO/IEC 19762-3: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques -- Harmonized vocabulary -- Part 3: Radio frequency identification (RFID)
  • ISO/IEC 19762-4: Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques -- Harmonized vocabulary – Part 4: Conceptual relationship between terms
 
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