AIM 2000

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2000	Code 128 was published as ISO/IEC 15417. MaxiCode was published as ISO/IEC 16023. EAN/UPC was published as ISO/IEC 15420. Data Matrix was published as ISO/IEC 16022.

2000	ATA (Airline Transport Association) releases Spec 2000, a set of e-business specifications, products and services.

2000	Frontline Solutions Held in Chicago

2001	PDF 417 was published as ISO/IEC 15438.

2001	AIM Hosts First RFID Summit in US and Europe

2001	Frontline Solutions Europe Held in Amsterdam

2002	AIDC Industry Archive at Stony Brook University Library established by AIDC 100.

2003	DoD issues memorandum “Policy for Item Unique Identification (UID) of Tangible items” that makes mandatory the marking and tracking of over 300 million items with Data Matrix code. Learn more by watching the video above!

2003	Wal-Mart announced their plan to implement RFID tracking in their stores and distribution centers.

2003	AIM Releases RFID and Privacy Primer - RFID FAQs, not Fiction

2003	AIM North America Established

2004	Name changed from Automatic Identification Manufacturers to Automatic Identification & Mobility

2004	RFID Experts Group (REG) Formed

2004	AIM Holds AIDC Boot Camp

2004

FDA issues pharmaceutical bar code mandate
In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated that pharmaceutical companies bar code their medicines down to the unit of dose so that they can be scanned in hospitals and endorsed Reduced Space Symbology as a means to reduce medication errors. Learn more by watching the video above.

2004	EPCglobal released a standard RFID air interface protocol in the ultra high frequency (UHF) range. The standard’s short name was Gen 2 (Generation Two), and it was rapidly accepted worldwide.

2004	ISO/IEC 15415 Bar Code Print Quality Test Specifications – 2D Symbols was published.

2004	AIM EMEA hosted the AIM Knowledge & Networking Forum in Brussels

2004	AIM RFID Mark was Developed

2004	AIM North America Releases the “RFID Knowledge Base”

2005	Airlines use IATA standard 2D bar code on boarding passes.

2005	DoD issues mandate for all suppliers to utilize passive RFID tags - the DoD RFID Policy

2005	Walmart Issues RFID mandate for their suppliers

2005	AIM Addresses RFID Privacy to US Congress and European Union

2005	AIM Global Publishes RFID Position Statement on Consumer Privacy and Security

2005	The AIM RFID Emblem was revised and published

2005	AIM China Chartered

2006	First Senate RFID Caucus held in Washington DC

2006	AIM Publishes Position Statement on Item-Level Use of RFID

2006	AIM EMEA hosted first Leadership Council

2006	European RFID Experts Group is formed

2007	Unique Device Identification (UDI) Regulation signed into law by FDA for tracking of medical devices - Learn more by watching the video above!

2007	Ted Williams Award is established

2007	Bert Moore Excellence in Journalism Award is established

2008	2D bar codes sent to mobile phones to enable electronic boarding passes.

2008	AIM Global Announces Availability of Quality Guidelines for Tire RFID

2008	Andy Longacre’s Aztec Code was published as ISO/IEC 24778. The most prominent application for Aztec Code has been on airline boarding passes.

2008	AIM Global Announces Availability of New High Data Capacity Bar Code Specification - Datastrip 2D

2008	AIM Global Announces Availability of New Chinese Bar Code - Grid Matrix

2009	DotCode, created by Dr. Andy Longacre, was published by AIM as ISS-DotCode

2009	Coca-Cola unveiled their "Freestyle Soda Machines" that give users 165 different drink combinations with the use of Impinj Monza RFID chips.

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