This document discusses considerations for the Internet of Things (IoT). It provides background on the origins of the term IoT and GS1's work related to IoT standards. Specifically, it describes GS1's role in a European Union-funded project called GRIFS from 2008-2009 to document global RFID standards activities and establish an IoT standards forum. The document encourages attendees to visit the IoT standards website that GS1 maintains as a resource for information on IoT standards developments. It closes by thanking the audience for their attention.

1. Beyond the Label
IoT considerations
Henri Barthel, GS1
Sierre, 27 January 2012

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1,5 million member
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• Introduced in 1974; still growing in 2012

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GS1: A global system of standards

5. Beyond the Label
Providing Digital
Information Consumers
Can Trust

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Digital Consumer Information in the context
of the Future Value Chain
2020 Future Value Chain
Building Strategies
for the New Decade
Multiple GS1 initiatives
around mobile and
digital information

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12 main Future Value Chain trends are
characterizing the next decade
Increased
Urbanization
Aging
Population
Increasing Spread
of Wealth
Increased Impact of
Consumer Technology
Adoption
Increase in Consumer
Service Demands
Increased Importance of
Health and Wellbeing
Growing Consumer
Concern about
Sustainability
Shifting of
Economic Power
Scarcity of Natural
Resources
Increase in Regulatory
Pressure
Rapid Adoption of Supply
Chain Technology
Capabilities
Impact of Next-
Generation Information
Technologies
Increased Impact of
Consumer Technology
Adoption
Increase in Consumer
Service Demands
Increased Importance
of Health and
Wellbeing
Shoppers continue to become more empowered using technology
This drives significant changes in consumers’ behavior and buying
behavior and new levels of service demands
Shoppers want more healthy products and a healthier lifestyle

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Four Common Strategic Objectives have
jointly been defined
Optimize a shared supply chain
Collaborate differently, compete differently
Engage with technology-enabled consumers
The consumer in the driver’s seat
Serve the health and wellbeing of
consumers
Focus on quality of life
Make our business more sustainable
From niche to norm

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The Digital Problem
 Brands and Retailers:
high quality digital
information
 Third-party “apps”:
Digital information often
missing or incorrect.

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Current Digital Information is Bad !
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Everybody loses with Bad Digital Information
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“Providing accurate information about our products is a
critical part of building trust with our consumers”
Werner Geissler, Vice Chairman, Global Operations, Procter & Gamble
• Consumers need information
they can trust
• Brand Owners risk loss of Brand
Equity and Sales
• Application Providers face lost
usage

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Consumers want Nutrition and Ingredient
Information

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Consumers increasingly demand mobile
functionalities
Source: ‘Mobile Commerce Report 2011: Mobile in Retail’, GS1 Sweden, ECR Sweden, Ericsson

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Moving towards Good Digital
Information for Consumers
Focus on Authoritative
Consumer Information
Core/master product data, including product
descriptions, ingredients and nutritional
information, as provided by the brand owners or
other authorized sources
Achieve consensus on a
business-driven Solution
• Global
• Scalable
• Real-time
• Multi-sourced
Improve B2C Data Quality
• Data integrity
• Data authenticity
• Data accuracy
• Data completeness

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GS1 – Trusted source of data

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Objective: to enable access to Trusted Source
of Data (TSD)
Leverage existing standards based on brand
data used by the Global Data Synchronization
Network (GDSN)
Phase I was simple and valuable to test the
system and focused on nutritional attributes
Trusted Source of Data Project
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Product Name
Brand Owner Name
Product Description
Product URL (Brand owner website)
Product Image URL (Brand owner website)
Phase 1 – Basic Information (5)

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Phase 1 – Nutritional Information (19)
Calories/Energy
Total
Fat
Fat
Total
Saturated
Trans
Polyunsaturated
Monounsaturated
Carbohydrates
Total
Dietary Fibre
Sugars
Vitamins
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Calcium
Iron
Proteins
Cholesterol
Sodium
Serving size
Servings per container

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Pilot Summary
Countries: 8
Aggregators: 5
IAPs: 5 (on iPhone and Android)
Participating Brands: 29
Products: 807
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Brand participation
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Country Participants
Australia Kraft, Nestle
Canada Kraft, Smucker
Colombia Exito, Taeq, Noel, Team Foods
France Bonduelle, Carrefour, Casino, Groupe BEL, Lactalis, Lesieur,
Marie Morin
Germany Emmi, Rausch
Spain EROSKI, Caps, Agua Mineral San Benedetto, Danone,
Kellogg’s, Heineken, Cadbury, Coca-Cola
US PepsiCo, Coca-Cola
UK Nestle, R&R Ice Cream, Premier Foods, Tesco, Unilever

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GS1 Standards
Datapool 1 Datapool 2
GDSN
Certified 3rd
Party Content
Data
Aggregator 1
Data
Aggregator 2
ONS
e-tailer
Internet
Application
Provider
1
15
5
Add’l Brand
Data
Certified 3rd
Party Content
Add’l Brand
Data
1 Send GTIN to aggregator
2 2
2 Send EPC URI to ONS (if data not held)
3 3
3 Retrieve relevant aggregator URL
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4 Send & Receive relevant attributes
5 Receive attributes from aggregator
Non-Brand
Data
Non-Brand
Data
(if it holds the data for that GTIN)

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2012 milestones
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• Pilot
• Pilot report (Feb 2012)
• Phase 1
• Standards development for relevant data model and messaging
standards (starting now)
• Beta of new architecture (Jun 2012)
• Phase 2
• Collaborative work with Consumer Goods Forum (Jun 2012)

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More information
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• Beyond the Label report is available at www.gs1.org/b2c
• Pilot report will be available mid-February at
www.gs1.org/b2c
• If you need more information contact Joe Horwood at
joe.horwood@gs1.org

24. The Internet of Things
Some considerations

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The Internet of Things
• The expression was first created at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999
• There was a research project called Electronic
Product Code
• The idea was to identify objects with tiny electronic radio
chips and use the Internet to track them
• The Internet of Things is all about connecting objects,
people, machines, devices, ...

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GRIFS Project
• GRIFS = Global RFID Interoperability forum for Standards
• European Union funded support action
• Duration: January 2008 to December 2009 (2 years)
• Members: GS1 (Coordinator), ETSI, CEN
• Objectives:
- Document RFID standards activities globally
- Establish liaisons with on-going projects and Standard
bodies
- Establish a global forum for RFID Standards

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www.iotstandards.org

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Resource for information on IoT standards

29. Thank you for your attention!
Henri Barthel
Vice President GS1 System Integrity and
Global Partnerships
GS1 Global Office
+32 2 788 7823
henri.barthel@gs1.org