scope:

This International Standard defines the usage of read/write radio-frequency identification technology [RFID] cargo shipment-specific tags associated with containerized freight for supply chain management purpose ["manifest tags"]. This International Standard defines the air interface communications, a common set of required data structures, and a commonly organized, through common syntax and semantics, set of optional data requirements.

This International Standard:

- makes recommendations about a second generation supply chain tag intended to monitor the condition and security of the freight resident within a freight container;

- specifies the implementation of sensors for freight resident in a freight container;

- makes specific recommendations about mandatory non-reprogrammable information on the shipment tag;

- makes specific recommendations about optional, re-programmable information on the shipment tag;

- makes specific recommendations about the data link interface for GPS or GLS services;

- specifies the reuse and recyclability of the RF tag;

- specifies the means by which the data in a complaint RF tag "backed-up" by bar codes and two-dimensional symbols, as well as human-readable information.