Discovering the new DNA

Attended a really interesting Webinar last week organised by the Dash 7 alliance. The subject was the proposed Dash7 Network Access (DNA) standard.

In the same way that EPC Global managed to galvanise industry activity to produce a low cost tag and software infrastructure for the ISO 18000-6 air interface standard - the Dash 7 alliance is attempting to do the same for the ISO 18000-7 air interface standard.

DNA will focus on equivalent standards like Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) and EPC Information Services (EPCIS) but for active RFID tags. This should be a really important move - particularly if similair and complementary standards can be used for both active and passive infrastructures. Combined "active+passive" readers is definitely the future.

The nature of "active tags" is that they have a battery and normally some memory and can therefore be directly addressed. This could really get the Internet of Things moving !!