Different subcategories
There are still three subcategories from different application categories which have to be considered. The subcategories have been selected under the aspect of wide use and importance, respectively expected importance. These are the subcategories: - Access control systems - Personal tracking - Rental systems. The subcategories Access control systems and Personal tracking are belonging to the main category Access control and tracking & tracing of individuals. The subcategory Rental systems is belonging to main category Sports, leisure and household.
Access control systems
In this subcategory no application standards were identified.
In the area of access control systems the applications are very wide spread. This could be for facility entrance at international companies or administrations, but also for small and local solutions like for a small company. Due to this it may be helpful if international standards were available but often national standards would be sufficient or proprietary systems could be suitable for local and closed applications.
Personal tracking
- ICAO Doc9303 MRTD
A machine readable travel document (MRTD) is an international travel document (e.g. a passport or visa) containing eye and machine readable data. Each type of MRTD contains in a standard format the holder's identification details, including a photograph or digital image, with mandatory identity elements reflected in a two-line machine readable zone (MRZ) printed in optical character recognition-B (OCR-B) style. All participating countries agree to standardisation of elements in travel documents.
The standard for the e-passport is based on ISO 14443 data standard for RFID.
ICAO Doc9303 MRTD consists of the following three parts:
Part 1: machine readable passports (published in 2006; consists of 2 volumes)
Volume 1 sets forth the specifications for a machine readable passport (MRP), characterised by a visual inspection zone and a machine readable zone (MRZ), containing essential identification and document details in OCR-B typeface.
Volume 2 sets forth the specifications for biometric enhancement of the MRP to become an "e-passport".
Part 2: machine readable visas (published in 2005)
Specifications provide for a visa format in two sizes - format A, sized to fill a passport page, and the smaller format B. Like the MRP the machine readable visa is a standard format consisting of a visual inspection zone and a machine readable zone. However, the third edition requires that a space be provided for a portrait of the holder, and fewer layout options than the previous edition allowed.
Part 3: size-1 and size-2 machine readable official travel documents (published in 2003, a revision is planned in 2007)
Specifications provide for machine readable cards in two sizes: TD-1, an ID-1 size plastic card, and TD-2 having the dimensions defined for the ID-2 type card (ISO/IEC 7810). In addition to the visual inspection zone and the machine readable zone the specifications provide for the addition of "optional capacity expansion technologies" to increase data storage on the documents.
This current version of the e-passport document was published in 2006.
Rental systems
- ISO/NP 28560
“Information and documentation - data model for use of radio frequency identifier (RFID) in libraries”
ISO/NP 28560 describes the implementation of an international
data model application standard for information and documentation
concerning the use of radio frequency identifier (RFID) in
libraries.
The proposal for this new standard, which is currently under
development, was published in 2006.
