As you work through the examples given in this chapter, you may want to practice encoding and decoding EPC or DOD data for verification purposes. Loftware provides a utility to help you with this. It can be launched from the Tools menu of Loftware Label Manager. It is a stand-alone application and can also be launched by double clicking on the EPC_Utils.exe file from the Windows Explorer. The RFID Calculator can also encode and decode the EPC as a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). A clear understanding of the specifications mentioned in the last section is a prerequisite to using this tool. The following examples depict some instances where this utility program may be used as a ‘sanity check.’
Example 10 - Decoding the Hex Data