Henri Barthel

Henri Barthel is Technical Director EPCglobal Inc. He has been working for GS1 (formerly EAN International) since July 1988 where he was responsible for the technical automatic identification and electronic data interchange standards. In August 2003, he was appointed Technical Director EPCglobal. His responsibilities include the global monitoring of regulations for Radio Frequency Identification and the liaison with external standard bodies, particularly ISO. He is a member of the GS1 Technical Steering Team, the EPCglobal Architecture Review Committee. He is also chairman of SC31/WG4, the ISO working group dealing with RFID standardisation for item management. Early 2006, Henri Barthel was appointed Coordinator of BRIDGE, a European Union funded Integrated Project aiming to perform research on RFID hardware, software, network and security as well as to perform trials and implementation of the technology in several business sectors.