How do you know what item 1-2345-67890 is?

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The EPC by itself tells you no more about a product than a car's license plate tells you about a car. Computers need a way to associate the EPC with information stored elsewhere about the unique item. To help computer systems find and understand information about a product, the Auto-ID Center developed some infrastructure technologies that would be integrated with the Internet to allow companies to look up information associated with each item in secure databases. For more on this, see the FAQs about the EPCglobal Network.

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