ID@URI

ID@URI is an identifier format proposed by the [http://dialog.hut.fi DIALOG research project] of the Helsinki University of Technology for identifying and linking tangible "things" to their information sources on the Internet (the "Internet of Things").

Dialog started off with the project to develop a forwarder independent tracking-and-tracing system for worldwide project deliveries. The URI can be a URL-format computer address (e.g. 'www.some_company.com') and ID is a serial number or any other unique number at the URI indicated.

ID@URI has the same essential properties as the EPC/ONS standards proposed by the AutoID Center at MIT, i.e. it can be guaranteed to be globally unique and it indicates where the information about the item is located. ID@URI can be printed as text, barcode or programmed into a (programmable) RFID chip. In a tracking application, URI is normally set to the company that needs the tracking data. In product data access applications, it could be the manufacturer of the product.

An [http://dialog.hut.fi/osc/index.php Open Source Community] was started in 2003 for further development of the DIALOG Java-based software components, which cover driver architecture for RFID and barcode readers, client-server communication and information fetch/update to company databases.

Since June 2006, the concept of ID@URI is also being used and further developed by the [http://www.traser-project.eu/ TraSer EU project] consortium.