Industry Standards

RFID holds great promise for dramatic improvements to value chain performance across the entire economy, but only if effective standards can be agreed to and implemented. OAT has a deep heritage stretching back to the very beginnings of standards-based approaches to value chain RFID:

• Sanjay Sarma, our CTO, founded the Auto-ID Center in 1999 to build the standards foundation for successful value chain applications of RFID.
• The Auto-ID Center was a tremendously successful partnership that involved over 100 global companies and five research institutions including MIT that defined the specifications for the technology and demonstrated numerous successful applications on a large scale.
• As a result, the Auto-ID center was merged with mature standards bodies (UCC & EAN) to carry the effort forward.

OAT is committed to delivering the market leading standards-based, RFID solutions. Below are some examples of how OAT is putting this commitment into practice today:

• Sanjay Sarma, our CTO, holds one of the only 14 Board of Governors seats at EPCglobal (a joint venture between EAN International and the Uniform Council Code (UCC) organizations that for more than 30 years have been committed to standards-based global supply chain solutions).
• We are full members of the Software Action Group (SAG) which is forming the standards for RFID software within EPCglobal.
• We are full members of the Business Action Group (BAG) which is forming the standard for inter-company sharing of RFID information within EPCglobal.
• We are fully leveraging non RFID-specific standards in the development of our solutions such J2EE, XML, SNMP, etc.