Electronic Product Code

Identifier for each individual physical object, not just each product type, designed to be carried on RFID tags; it came out of MIT's Auto-ID Center and is maintained by GS1. [?]

maintained by

• GS1 organization 1974 [src1][src2]

built upon by

• EPCIS standard 2007 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• description: Its Auto-ID Center origin is inferred from MIT licensing the Auto-ID system to GS1.

Sources

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1327374
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton