4. Second development phase (from 2005)

The development of the Traceability Division has followed the development of traceability applications:

• traceability of services and traceability of people have been added to traceability of goods;

• RFID technology, originally conceived as a replacement for the linear barcode, has now been joined by a whole range of information gathering and support technologies, including 2D matrix codes, magnetic codes, digital codes, hybrid systems, nanotracers, synthetic DNA, etc;

• the integration of traceability into the information system has led to the addition of the middleware level of traceability solutions to the mere collection of information. Because of the volumes of information involved, traceability has a strong impact on the sizing of information system components, and can even...