ISO/IEC 15961-1:2021

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 15961-1
Second edition
2021-12
Information technology — Data
protocol for radio frequency
identification (RFID) for item
management —
Part 1:
Application interface
Technologies de l'information — Protocole de données relatif à
l'identification par radiofréquence (RFID) pour la gestion d'objets —
Partie 1: Interface d'application
Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword .viii
Introduction .ix
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions . 1
3.2 Abbreviated terms and designations . 2
4 Conformance . 2
4.1 General . 2
4.2 Application conformance . 2
4.3 Conformance of the Data Processor . 3
5 Protocol model . 3
6 Presentation conventions . 3
6.1 Commands, responses, and arguments . 3
6.1.1 General . 3
6.1.2 Data types . . 3
6.2 Object Identifier presentation in the application interface . 4
6.2.1 Object identifier structure to ISO/IEC 8824-1 . 4
6.2.2 Presenting the Object-Identifier in accordance with ISO/IEC 8824-1 . 5
6.2.3 Presenting the Object-Identifier as a Uniform Resource Name (URN) . 5
6.3 Byte notation. 5
6.3.1 Byte — Basic unit for 8-bit coding. 5
6.3.2 Bit ordering . 5
6.3.3 Byte conversion . 6
7 Processing application commands and responses . 6
7.1 General . 6
7.1.1 Option A: Straight through process . 6
7.1.2 Option B: Transfer encoding . 6
7.2 Encoding system related information in commands . 7
7.2.1 Singulation-Id . 7
7.2.2 AFI . 7
7.2.3 DSFID . 7
7.2.4 Access-Method. 8
7.2.5 Data-Format . 9
7.3 Preparing the basic Objects and other application-based arguments . 10
7.3.1 General . 10
7.3.2 General model . 11
7.3.3 Object-Identifier . 11
7.3.4 Relating Object-Identifiers . . 11
7.3.5 Object . 11
7.3.6 Compact-Parameter .12
7.3.7 Object-Lock . 14
7.4 Other command arguments . 14
7.4.1 Access-Password . 14
7.4.2 Additional-App-Bits . 14
7.4.3 AFI-Lock . 14
7.4.4 Append-To-Existing-Multiple-Record . 14
7.4.5 Application-Defined-Record-Capacity . 15
7.4.6 Avoid-Duplicate .15
7.4.7 Battery-Assist-Indicator . 15
7.4.8 Block-Align . 15
7.4.9 Block-Align-Packed-Object . 15
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7.4.10 Check-Duplicate .15
7.4.11 Data-CRC-Indicator . 15
7.4.12 Data-Length-Of-Record . 16
7.4.13 Delete-MR-Method . 16
7.4.14 Directory-Length-EBV8-Indicator . 16
7.4.15 DSFID-Lock . 16
7.4.16 DSFID-Pad-Bytes . 16
7.4.17 Editable-Pointer-Size . 16
7.4.18 Encoded-Memory-Capacity . 17
7.4.19 EPC-Code . 17
7.4.20 Full-Function-Sensor-Indicator . 17
7.4.21 Hierarchical-Identifier-Arc . 17
7.4.22 Identifier-Of-My-Parent . 17
7.4.23 Identify-Method . 17
7.4.24 ID-Type . 17
7.4.25 Instance-Of-Arc . 18
7.4.26 Kill-Password . 18
7.4.27 Length-Of-Mask . 18
7.4.28 Lock-Directory-Entry . 18
7.4.29 Lock-Multiple-Records-Header . 18
7.4.30 Lock-Record-Preamble. 18
7.4.31 Lock-UII-Segment-Arguments . 18
7.4.32 Max-App-Length . 18
7.4.33 Memory-Bank . 19
7.4.34 Memory-Bank-Lock . 19
7.4.35 Memory-Length-Encoding . 19
7.4.36 Memory-Segment . 19
7.4.37 Memory-Type . 19
7.4.38 Multiple-Records-Directory-Length . 19
7.4.39 Multiple-Records-Features-Indicator . 19
7.4.40 NSI-Bits . 20
7.4.41 Number-In-Data-Element-List . 20
7.4.42 Number-Of-Records .20
7.4.43 Number-Of-Tags. 20
7.4.44 Objects-Offsets-Multiplier . 20
7.4.45 Packed-Object-Directory-Type . 20
7.4.46 Password . 21
7.4.47 Password-Type . 21
7.4.48 PO-Directory-Size . 21
7.4.49 PO-Index-Length . 21
7.4.50 Pointer . 21
7.4.51 Pointer-To-Multiple-Records-Directory . 21
7.4.52 Read-Record-Type . 21
7.4.53 Read-Type . 23
7.4.54 Record-Memory-Capacity . 23
7.4.55 Record-Type-Arc .23
7.4.56 Record-Type-Classification . 24
7.4.57 Sector-Identifier . 24
7.4.58 Simple-Sensor-Indicator . 24
7.4.59 Start-Address-Of-Record . 24
7.4.60 Tag-Data-Profile-ID-Table . 24
7.4.61 Tag-Mask . 25
7.4.62 Update-Multiple-Records-Directory . 25
7.4.63 Word-Count . 25
7.4.64 Word-Pointer . 25
7.5 Command-related field names.25
7.5.1 General . 25
7.5.2 Data-Set . 25
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7.5.3 Identities . 25
7.5.4 Length-Lock Byte.25
7.5.5 Length-Of-Encoded-Data . 26
7.5.6 Lock-Status . 26
7.5.7 Logical-Memory-Map.26
7.5.8 Memory-Capacity . 26
7.5.9 Module-OID . 26
7.5.10 Number-Of-Tags-Found .26
7.5.11 PO-ID-Table . 26
7.5.12 Protocol-Control-Word .26
7.5.13 Read-Data . . . 26
7.6 Data security .26
8 Dataflows and processes to the air interface .27
8.1 General . 27
8.2 Establishing communications between the application and the tag . 27
8.2.1 General . 27
8.2.2 Air interface services . 27
8.2.3 System information . 27
8.3 Application system services .28
9 Command-Codes, Completion-Codes, and Execution-Codes .28
9.1 General .28
9.2 Final arc values of the command and response modules .28
9.3 Completion-Code .30
9.4 Execution-Code .30
10 Commands and responses .30
10.1 General .30
10.2 Configure-AFI .30
10.2.1 Configure-AFI command .30
10.2.2 Configure-AFI response . 31
10.3 Configure-DSFID . 32
10.3.1 General . 32
10.3.2 Configure-DSFID command . 32
10.3.3 Configure-DSFID response . 32
10.4 Inventory-Tags . 33
10.4.1 Inventory-Tags command . 33
10.4.2 Inventory-Tags response .34
10.5 Delete-Object . 35
10.5.1 Delete-Object command.35
10.5.2 Delete-Object response . 36
10.6 Modify-Object . 36
10.6.1 Modify-Object command . 36
10.6.2 Modify-Object response . 37
10.7 Read-Object-Identifiers .38
10.7.1 Read-Object-Identifiers command .38
10.7.2 Read-Object-Identifiers response .38
10.8 Read-Logical-Memory-Map .39
10.8.1 Read-Logical-Memory-Map command .39
10.8.2 Read-Logical-Memory-Map response .39
10.9 Erase-Memory .40
10.9.1 Erase-Memory command .40
10.9.2 Erase-Memory response .40
10.10 Get-App-Based-System-Info . 41
10.10.1 Get-App-Based-System-Info command . 41
10.10.2 .
Get-App-Based-System-Info response . 41
10.11 Write-Objects . . 41
10.11.1 Wr ite- Objec t s comma nd . 41
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10.11.2 .
Write-Objects response . 43
10.12 Read-Objects .44
10.12.1 .
Read-Objects command .44
10.12.2 .
Read-Objects response . 45
10.13 Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag .46
10.13.1 Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag command .46
10.13.2 .
Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag response . 47
10.14 Write-EPC-UII .48
10.14.1 Write-EPC-UII command .48
10.14. 2 Wr it e -EPC-U II r e s pon se .49
10.15 Inventory-ISO-UIImemory .49
10.15.1 Inventory-ISO-UIImemory command .49
10.15.2 .
Inventory-ISO-UIImemory response .50
10.16 Inventory-EPC-UIImemory . 50
10.16.1 Inventory-EPC-UIImemory command .50
10.16.2 .
Inventory-EPC-UIImemory response . 51
10.17 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag . 51
10.17.1 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag command . 51
10.17.2 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag response . 51
10.18 Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag . 52
10.18.1 Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag command . 52
10.18.2 .
Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag response . 52
10.19 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag .53
10.19.1 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag command . 53
10.19.2 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag response . 53
10.20 Delete-Packed-Object .54
10.20.1 .
Delete-Packed-Object command .54
10.20.2 .
Delete-Packed-Object response .54
10.21 Modify-Packed-Object-Structure . 55
10.21.1 .
Modify-Packed-Object-Structure command . 55
10.21.2 .
Modify-Packed-Object-Structure response .56
10.22 Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag .56
10.22.1 .
Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag command .56
10.22.2 .
Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag response .58
10.23 Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag . 59
10.23.1 .
Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag command . 59
10.23.2 .
Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag response .60
10.24 Write-Monomorphic-UII . 61
10.24.1 .
Write-Monomorphic-UII command . 61
10.24.2 .
Write-Monomorphic-UII response .63
10.25 Configure-Extended-DSFID .63
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10.25.1 .
General .63
10.25.2 .
Configure-Extended-DSFID command.64
10.25.3 .
Configure-Extended-DSFID response .64
10.26 Configure-Multiple-Records-Header .65
10.26.1 .
General .65
10.26.2 .
Configure-Multiple-Records-Header command .65
10.26.3 .
Configure-Multiple-Records-Header response . 67
10.27 Read-Multiple-Records .68
10.27.1 Read-Mult iple-Records command .68
10. 27. 2 Re ad-Mu lt iple -Re c or d s r e s pon se . 69
10.28 Delete-Multiple-Record . 69
10.28.1 .
Delete-Multiple-Record command . 69
10.28.2 .
Delete-Multiple-Record response . 70
11 Arguments .71
11.1 Add-Objects .
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