RFID, IoT & French Government Initiatives

1. RFID, IoT &French Government Initiatives Presentation at ETSI – 3rd December 2007 Olivier Rouxel, Project Manager, Service for Information Society and Technologies

2. Increasing Communication & Interest • European Consultation on RFID (EC, summer 2006) • Communication de la CE • Creation of the RFID Expert Group • Professional Shows (RFID, M2M, Traceability) • Forum (EC, mars 2007) • German and Portuguese Conferences (June, November 2007) • Medias • Awareness of • Suppliers (pilots, productivity gains) • Sectors (development of usage standards and best practises) • Competitive Clusters (better , inter-cluster cooperation) • Institutions (discovery of the technology, its stakes and market figures) • Citizens (assimilation to « big brother »)

3. Security & Privacy • A segmented approach to Privacy: • World of Industry • Industrial processes, traceability of objects • A priori no use of personal data • Reduce (or eliminate) potential legal uncertainty • World of Citizen • Customer/citizen becomes more and more involved (shop) • Question of personal data to be raised, depending on the application • Increased demand for Security • Shift towards the Internet of Things • Less control of Humans (M2M) • Embedded Security • Need for standardization

4. Internet of Things • Concept still to be defined • Will involve objects, machines • Using a great variety of technologies (not only RFID) • To enable interactions between them / with their environment • Role of the EPC ONS? • Often first to be mentioned • Architecture designed for supply chain in retail • Concerns raised by many, mainly regarding its centralized architecture and governance • Led to promotion by EPC & GS1 of Regional ONSs (from spring 2007) • Announcement in Lisbon by GS1 France of signing a contract with Orange Business Services to build a French ONS root • Initiative welcomed by French Ministry of Economy as reducing risks

5. Internet of Things • Many questions remain • Respective positions of the IoT and the Internet of the Future? • What place for the ONS in the IoT? • Should the ONS be transposed to other sectors? • Should a broader / more ambitious solution be proposed? • Will NGNs be compatible with the IoT? • What standardization actions to be led? • Many bodies “on the bridge” • We encourage seeking coherence between stakeholders on this subject: OECD, ETSI, ITU, ISO, EC RFID Expert Group, etc. • We welcome the ETSI initiative for setting up this Workshop

6. French MinEFE approach • Opening of UHF Bandwidth in September 2006 • To help development of UHF RFID applications (70% of operating RFID is using HF) • Big potential market • Many opportunities for RFID solutions suppliers • Many opportunities also for users • Accompaniment through the “competitiveness clusters” (pôles de compétitivité) • Main lever for the Ministry in help for R&D (already 7M€ at date) • Projects MISTRALS (Drug & Bio Samples) and PAC-ID GD (Retail) • Start of inter-cluster dynamic: technology brought by suppliers, needs and markets brought by users • 10 clusters signed a letter of intent to collaborated on RFID (27th september 2007)

7. Secretary of State Novelli’s announcement • Visit in PACA Region on 27th, September 2007 • Creation of a National RFID Centre • Help the development of the technology • Provide a better view on French RFID landscape • Call for projects dedicated to RFID • Improve internal process of enterprises • Collaborative, suppliers/users • Target SMEs • “National Collective Action” in Traceability • Call for projects in open-loop, by sectors • RFID, but also other traceability technologies • Need for professional associations to prepare it from now on • Help for R&D RFID projects also possible through competitiveness clusters

8. Contact & Information • Directorate-General for Enterprise • olivier.rouxel@industrie.gouv.fr • +33 (1) 53 44 95 12 • www.telecom.gouv.fr/rfid • DGE study on RFID (in French) • Announcements of calls for projects