Preface

Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

This Standard supersedes CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC TR 18047-2-06 (adoption of ISO/IEC TR 18047-2:2006). At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 18047-2:2012 is available from ISO and IEC in English only.

Scope

This part of ISO/IEC 18047 defines test methods for determining the conformance of radio frequency identification (RFID) devices (tags and interrogators) for item management with the specifications given in ISO/IEC 18000-2, but does not apply to the testing of conformity with regulatory or similar requirements.

The test methods require only that the mandatory functions, and any optional functions which are implemented, be verified. This may, in appropriate circumstances, be supplemented by further, applicationspecific functionality criteria that are not available in the general case.

The interrogator and tag conformance parameters in this part of ISO/IEC 18047 are the following:

- mode-specific conformance parameters including nominal values and tolerances;

- parameters that apply directly affecting system functionality and inter-operability.

The following are not included in this part of ISO/IEC 18047:

- parameters that are already included in regulatory test requirements;

- high-level data encoding conformance test parameters (these are specified in ISO/IEC 15962).

Unless otherwise specified, the tests in this part of ISO/IEC 18047 are to be applied exclusively to RFID tags and interrogators defined in ISO/IEC 18000-2.

Clause 4 describes all necessary conformance tests.