ISO/IEC 15962:2022

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 15962
Third edition
2022-01
Information technology — Radio
frequency identification (RFID) for
item management — Data protocol:
data encoding rules and logical
memory functions
Technologies de l'information — Identification par radiofréquence
(RFID) pour la gestion d'objets — Protocole de données: règles
d'encodage des données et fonctions logiques de mémoire
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Contents Page
Foreword .ix
Introduction .x
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions . 1
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 2
4 Conformance . 2
4.1 Conformance with the air interface . . 2
4.2 Conformance with the application interface . 2
4.2.1 Encoders and the application interface. 2
4.2.2 Decoders and the application interface . 3
4.2.3 Comprehensive encoder/decoder devices and the application interface . 3
4.3 Conformance with the Access-Method . 3
4.3.1 Encoders and the Access-Method . 3
4.3.2 Decoders and the Access-Method . 3
4.3.3 Comprehensive encoder/decoder devices and the Access-Method . 3
5 Protocol model . 3
5.1 Overview . 3
5.2 Layered protocol . 4
5.2.1 Layers . 4
5.2.2 Application layer as defined in the ISO/IEC 15961 series . 4
5.2.3 Application interface as defined in ISO/IEC 15961-1 . 5
5.2.4 Data Protocol processing . 5
5.2.5 Data Protocol interface . 5
5.3 Flexible implementation configurations . 6
5.4 Functional processes — Interrogator implementation . 6
5.4.1 Logical functions and interfaces . 6
5.4.2 Functional processes — Application interface. 7
5.4.3 Functional processes — Interrogator . 7
5.4.4 RFID tag . 8
5.5 ISO/IEC 15962 and the Data Processor . 9
6 Data and presentation conventions . 9
6.1 Data types in ISO/IEC 15961-1 commands and responses . 9
6.2 Extensible bit vector (EBV) . 9
6.3 Object Identifier presentation in the application interface . 10
6.3.1 Object identifier structure to ISO/IEC 8824-1 . 10
6.3.2 Presenting the Object-Identifier in accordance with ISO/IEC 8824-1 . 11
6.3.3 Presenting the Object-Identifier as a Uniform Resource Name (URN) . 11
6.4 The Object . 11
6.5 8-bit byte . 11
6.6 N-bit encoding . 11
7 Data Processor — High level processing .11
8 Data Processor and the application interface .12
8.1 Application commands — Overview .12
8.2 Application commands and responses — Write . 14
8.2.1 Configure-AFI . 14
8.2.2 Configure-DSFID . . 15
8.2.3 Write-Objects .15
8.2.4 Write-Objects-Segmented-Memory-Tag . 19
8.2.5 Write-EPC-UII . 22
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8.2.6 Write-Password-Segmented-Memory-Tag . 23
8.2.7 Write-Segments-6TypeD-Tag . 24
8.2.8 Write-Monomorphic-UII . 27
8.2.9 Configure-Extended-DSFID .30
8.2.10 Configure-Multiple-Records-Header . 31
8.3 Application commands and responses — Read . 33
8.3.1 Read-Object-Identifiers . 33
8.3.2 Read-Logical-Memory-Map .34
8.3.3 Read-Objects . 35
8.3.4 Inventory-ISO-UIImemory . 36
8.3.5 Inventory-EPC-UIImemory . 37
8.3.6 Read-Words-Segmented-Memory-Tag .38
8.3.7 Read-Segments-6TypeD-Tag . 39
8.3.8 Read-Multiple-Records .40
8.4 Application commands and responses — Other .44
8.4.1 Inventory-Tags .44
8.4.2 Delete-Object .44
8.4.3 Modify-Object .46
8.4.4 Erase-Memory .48
8.4.5 Get-App-based-System-Info .49
8.4.6 Kill-Segmented-Memory-Tag .49
8.4.7 Delete-Packed-Object . 50
8.4.8 Modify-Packed-Object-Structure . 51
8.4.9 Delete-Multiple-Record . 52
8.5 Air interface support for application commands . 53
9 Data Processor and the air interface.53
9.1 Use . 53
9.2 Air interface services .53
9.3 Defining the system information .54
9.3.1 System information elements .54
9.3.2 Singulation-Id .54
9.3.3 Physical block size . . . 55
9.3.4 Number of blocks .55
9.3.5 AFI . 55
9.3.6 DSFID .55
9.3.7 Encoding the Extended-Data-Format .56
9.3.8 Other extensions using the Extended Syntax indicator bit .56
9.3.9 Extended Syntax flag byte 1 .56
9.3.10 Memory length indicator bits .56
9.3.11 Procedure for length encoding .58
9.3.12 Data CRC indicators .58
9.3.13 Data CRC .58
9.3.14 Extended Syntax flag byte 2 .58
9.3.15 Simple Sensor indicator. 59
9.3.16 Battery Assist indicator . 59
9.3.17 Full-Function Sensor indicator . 59
9.3.18 DSFID and Extended Syntax . 59
9.4 Configuring the Logical Memory .63
10 Command/Response Unit — Processing of command and response arguments .63
10.1 Function .63
10.2 Process arguments .64
10.2.1 Access-Password .64
10.2.2 Additional-App-bits .64
10.2.3 AFI .64
10.2.4 AFI-Lock .64
10.2.5 Append-To-Existing-Multiple-Record .65
10.2.6 Application-Defined-Record-Capacity .65
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10.2.7 Avoid-Duplicate .65
10.2.8 Check-Duplicate .65
10.2.9 Compact-Parameter .66
10.2.10 .
Data-Length-Of-Record .66
10.2.11 .
DSFID . 67
10.2.12 .
DSFID-Lock . 67
10.2.13 .
Directory-Length-EBV8-Indicator . 67
10.2.14 .
Encoded-Memory-Capacity . 67
10.2.15 .
EPC-Code . 67
10.2.16 .
Hierarchical-Identifier-Arc . 67
10.2.17 .
Identifier-Of-My-Parent .68
10.2.18 .
Identify-Method and Number-Of-Tags .68
10.2.19 .
Instance-Of-Arc .68
10.2.20 .
Item-Related-DSFID .69
10.2.21 .
Item-Related-Segment-Map . 69
10.2.22 .
Kill-Password .69
10.2.23 .
Length-Of-Mask .69
10.2.24 .
Lock-Directory-Entry . 69
10.2.25 .
Lock-Multiple-Records-Header . 69
10.2.26 .
Lock-Record-Preamble.69
10.2.27 .
Lock-UII-Segment-Arguments . 70
10.2.28 .
Max-App-Length . 70
10.2.29 .
Memory-Bank . 70
10.2.30 .
Memory-Bank-Lock . 70
10.2.31 .
Memory-Segment . 70
10.2.32 .
Memory-Type . 70
10.2.33 .
Multiple-Records-Directory-Length . 70
10.2.34 .
Multiple-Records-Features-Indicator . 71
10.2.35 .
NSI-bits . 71
10.2.36 .
Number-In-Data-Element-List . 71
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10.2.37 .
Number-Of-Records . 71
10.2.38 .
Object-Lock . 71
10.2.39 .
Packed-Object-Directory-Type . 71
10.2.40 .
Password .72
10.2.41 .
Password-Type .72
10.2.42 .
Pointer .72
10.2.43 .
Pointer-To-Multiple-Records-Directory .72
10.2.44 .
Read-Record-Type .73
10.2.45 .
Read-Type .73
10.2.46 .
Record-Memory-Capacity .73
10.2.47 .
Record-Type-Arc .74
10.2.48 .
Record-Type-Classification .74
10.2.49 .
Sector-Identifier .74
10.2.50 .
Segment-Read-Type.74
10.2.51 .
Simple-Sensor-Data-Block . 75
10.2.52 .
Start-Address-Of-Record . 75
10.2.53 .
Tag-Data-Profile-ID-Table . 75
10.2.54 .
Tag-Mask . 75
10.2.55 .
TID-Segment-Map . 75
10.2.56 .
UII-DSFID. 75
10.2.57 .
UII-Segment-Map . 75
10.2.58 .
Update-Multiple-Records-Directory . 75
10.2.59 .
Word-Count . 76
10.2.60 .
Word-Pointer . 76
10.3 Completion-Codes . 76
10.4 Execution-Codes . .79
11 Access-Method .80
11.1 Methods .80
11.2 No-Directory structure . 81
11.2.1 Structure . 81
11.2.2 Restrictions to air interfaces .82
11.2.3 The dataset .82
11.2.4 Encoding rules .82
11.3 Directory structure .83
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11.3.1 Structure .83
11.3.2 Restrictions to air interfaces .83
11.3.3 Directory structure for Data-Format = "3 …287" .84
11.3.4 Directory structure for Data-Format = 2.84
11.3.5 Encoding the address of the dataset .84
11.3.6 Encoding example .84
11.4 Packed-Objects structure .84
11.5 Tag Data Profile .85
11.5.1 Use .85
11.5.2 Restrictions to air interfaces .86
11.5.3 Defining the Tag-Data-Profile .86
11.5.4 Encoding Rules .86
11.6 Multiple-Records .86
11.6.1 Structure .86
11.6.2 Categories of multiple records .87
11.6.3 Object-Identifier structure .89
11.6.4 Sector identifier. 91
11.6.5 Restrictions to air interfaces . 91
11.6.6 Encoding rules . 91
12 ISO/IEC 15434 direct encoding and transmission method using Access-Method 0
and Data-Format 3 . .91
12.1 Use . 91
12.2 General rules for ISO/IEC 15434 direct encoding . 92
12.3 Specific support for ISO 17364, ISO 17365, ISO 17366 and ISO 17367 . 92
13 Monomorphic-UII encoding . .92
13.1 Use . 92
13.2 6-bit encoding . 93
13.3 7-bit encoding .
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