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Military's RFID Alternative: IPv6
Posted by: Jordi on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:54 PM
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A white paper suggests the U.S. military could use the new Internet Protocol to track items.

ODIN Technologies, an auto-ID consulting and integration company in Reston, Va., has produced a white paper that suggests the military could use a new version of the Internet Protocol to track items with RFID tags. The authors say that if the Electronic Product Code created by the Auto-ID Center doesn’t catch on, the military could use tags that would carry a unique Internet Protocol address, which points to a specific location where information on that product would be stored.

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