Design and Implement of an EPC Encoding and Decoding System for Enterprise Application

The Barcode system has large scale application around the world. However, its disadvantages of unique object identity and the lack of connectivity to Internet have turned the customer´s attention into the EPC(Electronic Product Code, EPC in short) Network. As a subsidiary organization of GS1, EPCglobal has launched an EPC network architectural framework. In the paper, the author designs the encoding and decoding schema of SGTIN-96. Moreover a EPC encoding system toward enterprise application is designed and implemented, which is based on the schema. Through the system, SGTIN-96 labels can be generated and printed. And the content of SGTIN-96 labels can be decoded as well. The method of designing and implementing a new EPC Network also is discussed in this paper and case study is introduced for supporting the extensibility on Barcode in EPC network.