Abstract
The barcode technology has been used in many applications for a long time. However, it does not provide unique object identification and lacks connectivity to the Internet that more and more business applications require. The Electronic Product Code (EPC) was developed to address these problems. But EPC is not widely used at the present time. In this paper, we propose an approach called Barcode Network that takes the advantages of both barcdoe and EPC, for the pervasiveness of barcode and the connectivity to the Internet of EPC networks. The approach uses barcode as the basic identification mechanism and employs the architecture of EPC Network to achieve the goal of object identification. In this new approach, we introduce a barcoding scheme called GIN, give a mapping between GIN and the Universal Resource Format (URF) for which the IP of an object with barcode can be obtained using the Object Naming System (ONS) of the EPC Network. A case study is discussed to illustrate the key ideas of the proposed approach.
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Sun, J., Zhao, H., Hu, G. (2010). Study of the Key Techniques for Implementing Barcode Network. In: Lee, R. (eds) Computer and Information Science 2010. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15405-8_5
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