Summary

Recommendation ITU-T H.621 defines the system architecture for the multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification on the basis of Recommendation ITU-T F.771, and serves as a technical introduction to subsequent definition of detailed system components and protocols. The services treated by this Recommendation provide the users with a new method to refer to the multimedia content without typing its address on a keyboard or inputting the name of objects about which relevant information is to be retrieved. This is one of the major communication services using identification (ID) tags such as radio frequency identifications (RFIDs), smart cards and barcodes. International standardization of these services will give a big impact to international multimedia information services using ID tags. It contains the functional model, its constituent components as well as its workflow. An appendix describes how this architecture realizes typical services.

Amendment 1 (2014) clarifies that an ID terminal can have and supports multiple radio frequency (RF) communications.