Guides Support Benefits of Combining Theft Deterrence with Real-Time Actionable Intelligence

SINGAPORE, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ADT Security Services announced today its support for two new GS1 EPCglobal publications, a Strategic Overview Guide and a Technical Implementation Guide. Both aim to help retailers understand how they can deploy EPC/RFID-based, anti-theft solutions in their stores. GS1 EPCglobal standards are a set of integrated, industry-driven specifications developed to enable the identification of objects, data capture and sharing of information among partners throughout the supply chain. ADT, a retail industry leader with its Sensormatic(R) EAS and item-level intelligence solutions, is a founding member of the GS1 EPCglobal standards body and part of its EAS Phase 2 Joint Requirement Group, which contributed to the Guides.

Given today's challenges, retailers are exploring smarter, more integrated technologies like an EPC/RFID-based EAS solution. This solution is intended to provide the combined benefits of theft deterrence with real-time actionable intelligence. While such a solution can alert retailers to help prevent theft, it can also inform them of what's missing from inventory. With greater visibility of out-of-stock items, retailers can then replenish their sales floors faster and more accurately.

"Retailers are leveraging advanced technologies with installed solutions to improve in-store customer experiences and operational efficiencies, particularly at the item-level," said Drew Nathanson, Director of Research Operations at VDC Research Group. "The evolution, convergence and exploitation of technologies and solutions in the retail environment are expected to endow retailers with an unprecedented and expandable level of visibility and benefits, plus provide a more advanced and robust platform upon which to build additional capabilities."

According to Brand L. Elverston, Director of Asset Protection Systems and Analysis, Walmart, "By combining the advantages of EAS and EPC/RFID technology, we potentially realize the benefits of visibility throughout the supply chain together with the capability of deterring and detecting theft."

ADT offers Sensormatic EAS and RFID technologies to provide retailers with several approaches for preventing theft while improving the quality of item-level data. To help address pain points, retailers are recognizing that dual EAS-RFID functionality addresses both item-level security and item-level visibility. ADT's solution allows retailers to choose a sequential, layered technology approach to their deployments.

"ADT's broad portfolio of Sensormatic enterprise solutions offers retailers greater item-level visibility, operational efficiencies, profit improvements and customer satisfaction," said Kelvin Lam, Vice President of Retail and Security Products for Asia Pacific. "The new EPCglobal publications should assist in the further advancement of these approaches."

"The GS1 EPCglobal's RFID-based EAS guides that we released today present a new model for the way in which retailers will monitor and manage shrink," said Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal Inc. "EPC/RFID is designed to deliver item visibility, enabling retailers to reduce stock-outs, enhance the shopper's buying experience and increase sales."

The documents are available for no charge at: http://www.epcglobalinc.org/standards/implementation_guidelines/

About ADT Security Services

ADT Security Services, a Tyco International company, is the world's largest provider of electronic security services to more than seven million commercial, government and residential customers worldwide. ADT's total security solutions include intrusion, fire protection, closed circuit television, access control, critical condition monitoring, electronic article surveillance, radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT's Web site address is http://www.adt.com/global

About Sensormatic Retail Solutions Portfolio

The industry-leading Sensormatic Retail Solutions portfolio offers vital loss prevention and operational improvement technologies and solutions. Backed by more than 1,500 patents, the Sensormatic solutions portfolio is sold through ADT and authorized business partners around the world. From the front of the store through the entire retail supply chain, Sensormatic solutions help keep losses lower - and profits higher. Today, over 80 percent of world's top 200 retailers that use EAS rely on Sensormatic solutions, which include EAS, source-tagging, data analytics and in-store, item-level intelligence applications. Sensormatic forward-thinking solutions include traditional EAS and dual EAS-RFID technology that provides item-level security and visibility in an ever changing retail environment. For more information, visit: http://www.sensormatic.com

About GS1 EPCglobal Inc.

EPCglobal Inc. is a subsidiary of the global, not-for-profit standards organization GS1 and supports the global adoption of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) as industry-driven standards to enable accurate, immediate and cost-effective visibility of information throughout the supply chain. For more information, visit: http://www.epcglobalinc.org

About GS1

GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility in supply chains. GS1 is driven by more than a million companies, which execute more than five billion transactions a day with the GS1 System of Standards. This makes it the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. For more information, visit: http://www.gs1.org

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