The promise of EPCglobal RFID standardisation and regulatory efforts to reduce the cost and complexity of RFID system integration is still far from reality, especially in Asia.

As an exclusive industry-driven group, EPCglobal Inc has an interest to push its own proprietary standard as a global standard for the benefit of its members. Despite of its emerging role in defining the roadmap for RFID standardisation in the Asian continent, the organisation has not yet succeeded to lobby the Chinese Government for adopting the EPCglobal's UHF Electronic Product Code (EPC) standards as its national standard. There is no official account on the EPCglobal's standardisation hardship in China, but it is widely known among the Chinese RFID players that the EPCglobal's standardisation effort in China has been a failure.

On the other hand, RFID Asia has received an information that the Indonesian Government has been successfully lobbied by the EPCglobal/GS1 Indonesia to allocate a frequency spectrum according to Electronic Product Code (EPC) specified frequencies. It is expected that the frequency regulation in Indonesia will become official by the middle of this year. There is no official report on the amount of monetary value spent by the organisation to achieve this goal.


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