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an agreement on service procedures, methods, presentation styles, data structures and
formats, etc., is almost impossible. So a service provider chooses a way to adapt them and
provides resulting contents to end users. The contents, however, might be changed
frequently by trend, culture, events, accidents, news, etc.

III.3.1 Bus and subway route search

A bus passenger reads ID tags attached to bus stop signs, gets aware of his location from the tags,
inserts his destination at an input interface, and then acquires the optimum route via subways and/or
buses to the destination. If he is at an inappropriate location to take a bus or subway, he gets
directions on how to go to the proper location as well as the optimum route.
III.3.2 Mobile shopping

A consumer looks around a shopping mall to buy something. His cell phone equipped with an ID
terminal reads ID tags attached to a shelf or items for buying and presses "order" using a shopping
application user interface. In the end, he pays for chosen items as in on-line shopping. The mall
packs and delivers the ordered items to his pre-registered postal address.

III.3.3 Tag-based payment
This application is a use case of payment based on ID tag, ID terminal and identifier.

When a passenger gets on a bus, he places his ID tag-attached terminal near a bus fare device and
pays for the bus fare. The fare system may be connected to the network or work in the batch mode
for further work flow processing. A detail payment process depends on implementations but an
identifier of the passenger is transmitted to the fare device all the time.

III.4 B2B2C tag-based identification applications and services

This type of applications is a combined case between B2B and B2C applications as shown in
Figure III.5. A B2B domain in the right side of Figure III.5 is connected to the B2C domain in the
left side. Information resources made by the B2B domain are transmitted to the B2C domain by
which they may be processed and/or upgraded for an enhanced service and then provided to
consumers. The broker/gateway could be inserted into the B2C domain for intermediary proxy
services such as identifier resolution, media transformation, content translation, filtering, etc.

Figure III.5 – Globally networked B2B2C configuration model

III.4.1 Food chain information service
In case of vegetable goods, a tag-based distribution application scenario involving vegetable farms
to wholesale markets or vegetable stores is very similar to the previous B2B cases. As before,
business-oriented information including identifiers read from ID tags is exchanged between and
used by business partners.

Rec. ITU-T Y.4108/Y.2213 (09/2008) 251