Tag-based identification enables users to access multimedia information through users' electronic devices equipped with ID tag readers and communication functions. Multimedia information can be audio, text, graphic, video and other media which have various applications such as digital maps for navigation and interactive three-dimensional panoramic pictures. Users will receive the information using communication networks such as fixed or mobile networks according to their network access capabilities.
Such applications and services are characterized by the use of the following:
- Identifier: An identifier is assigned to each any entity such as a physical/logical object, a place, or a person.
- ID tag: An ID tag is a tag, such as a barcode, a passive/active RFID, a smartcard, or an infrared tag, used to store the identifier.
- ID terminal: An ID terminal is a device equipped with an ID tag reader used to capture the identifier. Capturing the identifier triggers access to multimedia information via a network.
These applications and services are useful in various fields such as medical applications in hospitals and drug stores, manufacture, agriculture, library management, personal safety, welfare, shopping, leisure (such as sight-seeing), logistics and supply chain management. Typical examples of applications are described in Appendix I of Recommendation
ITU-T F.771 and Appendix III of Recommendation
ITU-T Y.2213.
ITU-T Study Group 16 initiated activities in this area in 2006 and already published two Recommendations:
- Recommendation ITU-T F.771: Service description and requirements for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification
- Recommendation ITU-T H.621: Architecture of a system for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification
ITU-T Study Group 16 is developing three draft Recommendations jointly with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31:
- ITU-T H.IDscheme | ISO/IEC 29174-1: Information technology – UII scheme and encoding format for Mobile AIDC services – Part 1: Identifier scheme for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification
- ITU-T H.ID-RA | ISO/IEC 29174-2: Information technology – UII scheme and encoding format for Mobile AIDC services – Part 2: Registration procedures
- ITU-T H.IRP | ISO/IEC 29177: Information technology – Automatic identification and data capture technique – Identifier resolution protocol for multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification
ITU-T SG 16 is working in close collaboration with
ITU-T Study Group 17 to use the OID Resolution System in H.IRP. The work is coordinated by ITU-T SG 16 is working in close collaboration with ITU-T Study Group 17 to use the OID Resolution System (
ITU-T X.672 |
ISO/IEC 29168-1) in H.IRP. The work is coordinated by the Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things (
JCA-IoT).
