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Application Level Events (ALE) In A Nutshell

Thursday, December 15 2005

Posted on my other weblog today is more information about the Application Level Events (ALE) standard I discussed earlier . An excerpt: What is Application Level Events Overview Application Level Events (ALE) is a standard created by EPCGlobal, Inc., an organization of industry leaders devoted to the development of standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. The ALE specification is a software specification indicating required functionality and behavior, as well as a common API expressed through XML Schema Definition (XSD) and Web Services...

RFID, Application Level Events (ALE) standards released publicly

Thursday, November 17 2005

I didn't even notice this, but the ALE standard has finally been released publicly by EPC Global For those not familiar with EPC Global, it's the standards organization devoted to providing standards and recommendations for Electronic Product Code (EPC) and RFID software. They have standards governing the use of EPC RFID tags (the current de facto standard encoding of the data contained on RFID tags), as well as standards governing over-the-air protocol for RFID readers and software/service specifications. The ALE standard is a language- and platform-agnostic software standard that details the...