Alien Technology is committed to effective industry standards and has been instrumental in the development of the standards that define modern RFID technology.

Alien is a founding member of EPCglobal, a user-driven standards body focused entirely on facilitating low-cost, high-performing RFID solutions. The EPC Class 1 specification has been adopted industry wide as the standard for open, flexible UHF RFID systems.

EPCglobal recently published the new EPC Class 1 Gen 2 protocol, which is anticipated to accelerate the global uptake of RFID technology. Gen 2 hardware development is moving ahead quickly and the specification's acceptance as an official ISO standard is anticipated in 2006. Additionally, the EPC Reader Protocol is currently in development by the EPC Software Action Group, which has been frequently chaired by Alien personnel.

Alien will continue to support the efforts of EPCglobal and other standard bodies in enabling increasingly sophisticated and capable RFID implementations