This document specifies the identification, data, information services, application guidance aspects and applicable requirements of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technology for different items and their hierarchy in industrial construction during their whole life cycle.

This document

—    provides unique identification for items in industrial construction,

—    specifies the semantics and data syntax to be used,

—    specifies the data carriers to be used on items of various categories, substitutes and sizes,

—    makes recommendations about the metadata of the items,

—    specifies the application test method and parameters based on the large-scale test and scientific sampling rules,

—    defines the information services protocol to be used as an interface between business applications and the AIDC system, and

—    makes guidance for designers, workers, engineers, managers, end users and maintainers about the AIDC application in their daily work.