Reports

Your complete guide to RFID markets, trends, players and opportunities. Using new, unique information researched globally by IDTechEx technical experts, we analyse the RFID market in many different ways, with over 180 tables and figures. They include detailed ten year projections for EPC vs non-EPC, high value niche markets, active vs passive, readers, markets by frequency, markets by geographical region, label vs non label, chip vs chipless, markets by application, tag format and tag location. Cumulative sales of RFID is analyzed as are the major players and unmet opportunities. It covers the emergence of new products, legal and demand pressures and impediments for the years to come.

This report brings you new, unique information researched globally by IDTechEx. 20 year forecasts are given for the full range of organic and printed inorganic electronics - including logic, displays, memory, power and sensors. We analyze the market in many different ways, with over 150 tables and figures. They include markets by geographical region, numbers of units and value. Realistic timescales and the emergence of new products are given, as are impediments and opportunities for the years to come.

A revolution is in the making. Electronics will never be the same as new applications are spawned. Invisible, origami, edible electronics, low cost materials and manufacturing will lead to the use of electronics in spaces traditionally bare of their functionality. The research and growth of new technologies, along with new materials and processing methods, is resulting in the increasing penetration of innovative electronics and the emergence of new products in the competitive fields of displays and lighting. Eye-catching, animated billboards; large-area, thin, flexible displays with amazing colour contrasts; windows that are converted into surface lighting elements at night.

Active RFID is growing rapidly. Already several applications have been above $100 million and there is more to come. Learn how to use it and how to sell it. Ten year forecasts from 2008 to 2018 show how Active RFID will develop in the years ahead. This IDTechEx report comprehensively analyzes the technologies, players and markets with detailed ten year forecasts, including tag numbers, unit prices and interrogator numbers and prices. Details of over 75 active RFID implementations are given along with over 100 suppliers and full technology analysis - from printed batteries to Wi-Fi RFID to UWB tags. We have constructed ten year forecasts usefully segmented by frequency, application, territory, etc, and illustrated by dozens of tables and figures.

This comprehensive new report gives a thorough analysis of the subject by the well known consultant and academic Dr Bruce Kahn and Dr Harry Zervos with backing from the IDTechEx team of technical specialists. It covers the science and the manufacturing technology extremely thoroughly yet in an understandable form.

This new 240 page report, with over 130 figures and tables, examines the activities of 20 developers and sellers of the new WSN and over 30 potential and actual applications. It has simple explanations of the technology and a comprehensive glossary of the jargon. First researched in late 2008, it is constantly updated to capture the rapid technical and commercial progress in this subject. It gives ten year forecasts and many summary comparisons. The research involved global visits, interviews by phone and email and extensive examination of databases, many not openly available.

The biggest opportunity for OLED displays and organic photovoltaics is when these devices can be flexible, allowing them to be more robust, versatile and made in large areas compared to conventional displays and photovoltaics. However, many of the materials used in OLED displays and organic photovoltaics are sensitive to the environment, limiting their lifetime. These materials can be protected using substrates and barriers such as glass and metal, but this results in a rigid device and does not satisfy the applications demanding flexible devices. Plastic substrates and transparent flexible encapsulation barriers can be used, but these offer little protection to oxygen and water, resulting in the devices rapidly degrading.

Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) seek, continuously and in real-time, to determine the position of an object or person from a distance within a physical space. Uniquely, this new report by IDTechEx brings the subject to life with over 65 case studies of RTLS in action today. We consider all the technologies such as Ultra Wide Band, WiFi systems, and the many other proprietary and standardised systems, in addition to radio fingerprinting, mesh networks and linking GPS, GSM and other positioning devices. Standards, privacy issues and impediments to rollout of RTLS are also considered, as are ten year forecasts.

Printed electronics is a term that encompasses thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs), displays, interconnects, power, sensors and even actuators. Thousands of companies have now entered this market. The printing companies today will be the new electronic giants tomorrow. This report is vital reading to understand the opportunity of the technology, players, needs and timelines, giving global coverage from the biggest printing companies in East Asia to paper and packaging companies in Scandinavia to applications of the technology in the Americas.

Printed electronics will be a $300 billion market in 20 years. The largest segment will be printed transistors and memory. They will drive lighting, displays, signage, electronic products, medical disposables, smart packaging, smart labels and much more besides. The chemical, plastics, printing, electronics and other industries are cooperating to make it happen. Already, over 150 organisations are developing printed transistors and memory, with first products being sold in 2008.

This report is suitable for all companies developing or interested in the opportunity of printed or thin film electronics materials, manufacturing technologies or complete device fabrication and integration. It looks at inorganic technologies beyond conventional silicon for semiconductors, conductors, displays, photovoltaics and much more. Company profiles and forecasts are given.

It used to be thought that item level RFID meant little more than tagging very low cost retail items - something to do last of all. However, it has become big business and far more profitable than many other RFID sectors because it gives excellent paybacks. In this report we assess over 100 case studies such American Apparel reporting sales increases by 15% to 25% with item level tagging. Detailed forecasts are given including number of tag units sold over the next ten years, average tag price and tag value, in addition to systems value, resulting in a market worth $8.26 Billion in 2018. It describes the next wave of very large orders - not for what is popularly believed and not where most of the industry predicts it will occur. Get ahead with this unique resource.

HF is by far the most important frequency for RFID in value of market. This position will be strengthened in the next few years by dramatic improvements in HF RFID technology such as replacing the silicon chip with printed transistors, leading to 90% reduction in tag cost, new signalling techniques that improve many parameters, elimination of inlays and many other advances. This will make it a much stronger contender in supply chains and asset management.

This report compares and contrasts Near Field Communication (NFC), and particularly RFID enabled mobile phones, with contactless smart cards and tickets. The emphasis is on how they are forms of RFID with advantages and disadvantages and different development paths. A large number of contactless card and ticket schemes and their suppliers across the world are analysed and the lessons of success and failure are revealed. Ten year forecasts are given for all these devices and systems, including the applications they are used in; split by territory; number of units; average unit price; total value of tags; total value of system (including interrogators, software, networking, installation) and much more.

There is a great need for profit optimization and careful product positioning and repositioning in the frenetic but unforgiving RFID market that is increasing ten times to become a $26 billion business in 2017. RFID is entering most sectors of corporate, public and private life so understanding how to create enduring profit from such a choice of designs and applications, software, hardware and services, calls for great care and modern management tools.

This report analyzes the prospects of the end game of RFID - ultra low cost tags that do not include a silicon chip. We assess the technologies that are available and emerging, players, challenges, the opportunity and give ten year forecasts.

Learn the unique benefits of Dynamic Short Range Communications, ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi , RFID and Near Field Communication, and explore how they can be used together to great effect.

This is the first comprehensive handbook to cover the full range of terms associated with this exciting, fast moving topic.

This comprehensive handbook explains the magnitude of technology choices, applications and terms of radio frequency identification RFID.

Everyone agrees that item level tagging is going to be the biggest market for RFID in terms of both spend and number of tags sold. Everyone agrees that item level tagging has its own, special requirements making it different from other categories of RFID such as the tagging of people, animals, pallets, cases and vehicles or RFID in passports, tickets and smart cards. But there the agreement ends...

Introductory report on the whole subject. Needs, applications and technologies for smart packaging whether consumer, postal, military, healthcare or other. 350 organisations are covered.

This report is an in-depth study of electronic smart packaging, the hottest sector. Forecasts to 2015.

Smart packaging brings additional useful and valuable benefits to the consumer. This book focuses on documenting, understanding and describing how unmet consumer needs can be satisfied by smarter consumer packaging, with specific chapters of the food, beverage, household products and health, beauty and personal care market sectors

This report is the summation of extensive new research by IDTechEx analysts including Chinese native Ning Xiao. Many companies in China were visited and interviewed to obtain this information, which is not available elsewhere. The 317 page report covers over 150 companies developing RFID in China, actual and potential sales, successes and impediments, standards, frequencies and 92 case studies. This is your complete guide to RFID in China, giving an unprecedented level of insight into what is really happening.

This is major 283 page report analysing activity in printed electronics in Asia, where much is happening but relatively little has been reported openly. It covers 196 organisations in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Singapore with addresses and contact details, organisational structure, appropriate technology, device objectives, recent and planned announcements, and plans for commercialisation. Much of the information and analysis of trends in this essential reference book is not available elsewhere.

This is the world's first and only report analysing the subject in depth. It compares and analyses the activities of 280 organisations in 19 countries by technology and region. It gives full contact details of these companies and, where appropriate, examples of patenting performance, research programs and scientific papers presented in 2007 onwards.

This is the world's first and only report analysing the subject in depth. It compares and analyzes the activities of 208 organizations in North America by technology and region. It gives full contact details of these companies and, where appropriate, examples of patenting performance, research programs and scientific papers presented in 2007 onwards.

Ten year forecasts of tag numbers, unit prices and value, plus systems projections are presented. The total market by country is given. There is a full analysis of how IDTechEx sees the number of tags sold increasing tenfold over the next ten years and the market rocketing to around US$632 million in 2017. This 185 page report with over 60 tables and figures and more than 50 case studies is based on research entirely carried out in 2006 from the IDTechEx office in Auckland, New Zealand and using frequent visits to the region by UK experts in RFID staging Masterclasses and presenting at local conferences.

This report is unique in analysing the use of RFID in the apparel value chain from tagging cloth in manufacture to retail fashion and rented apparel. 138 users and suppliers are profiled. From Chile to Canada and Sweden to Taiwan, there is something to learn from all of them, not just from the unusually broad approach in Germany, Italy, China, Japan and the USA. This industry is on the move in a manner unmatched almost anywhere else in the RFID market.

This report concerns RFID in the food supply chain, from arable farming and livestock to presentation in the retail store. We even cover some benefits if the RFID tag stays on the food to the private home. Because the tagging of pets and use of RFID on animals and in conservation are closely allied topics, we cover these as well. Consumers also demand more information, as do the police and customs. This report analyses the use of DNA, RFID and other technologies, with a profusion of case studies from across the world.

RFID is an extremely powerful enabling technology in airports and aircraft, serving to improve security against criminal attack, safety against general hazards, efficiency, error prevention and data capture and to remove tedious tasks. It can even create new earning streams where it makes tolling feasible without causing congestion and where new airport "touch and go" cards offer new paid services without delays. Learn all about the opportunities, progress so far and needs.

The biggest opportunity for OLED displays and organic photovoltaics is when these devices can be flexible, allowing them to be more robust, versatile and made in large areas compared to conventional displays and photovoltaics. However, many of the materials used in OLED displays and organic photovoltaics are sensitive to the environment, limiting their lifetime. These materials can be protected using substrates and barriers such as glass and metal, but this results in a rigid device and does not satisfy the applications demanding flexible devices. Plastic substrates and transparent flexible encapsulation barriers can be used, but these offer little protection to oxygen and water, resulting in the devices rapidly degrading.

The RFID business is growing so fast that few applicational sectors can beat that scorching rate of growth. Healthcare is one of them thanks to the new tagging of drugs, real time location of staff and patients and other developments including automated error prevention. This unique report gives a full technical and market analysis illustrated by 70 case studies. It is a vital resource for the healthcare profession and all who wish to support it.

Detailed ten year forecasts are given plus a full explanation of the technologies. In detail, there are 30 new case studies of RFID in action in the postal and courier service in North America, Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. The major breakthroughs that will provide future success are discussed. Postal services ignoring this accelerating change will become uncompetitive and suppliers missing out will regret it.

There is a great need for profit optimization and careful product positioning and repositioning in the frenetic but unforgiving RFID market that is increasing ten times to become a $26 billion business in 2017. RFID is entering most sectors of corporate, public and private life so understanding how to create enduring profit from such a choice of designs and applications, software, hardware and services, calls for great care and modern management tools.

Discover how Wal-Mart, Tesco, Metro, Marks & Spencer, Benetton and 25 other retailers and suppliers are benefiting from RFID right now!

This has an introduction and thirty detailed case studies on RFID in the logistics industry, e.g. freight tagging, driver access, condition monitoring, tachometer card. Jargon buster appendix

This has an introduction and thirty detailed case studies on RFID in the healthcare industry, this includes drug and blood tagging, hospital security, as well as patient safety and error prevention. Jargon buster appendix

40 detailed case studies of RFID in Food and Livestock Management

This report contains a sample of global RFID case studies taken from the IDTechEx RFID knowledgebase. Over 40 companies have sponsored this publication to introduce how your business can benefit from RFID. Supported by GS1 UK, the UK provider of the EPCglobal Network.

This 2006/7 report contains a sample of global RFID case studies taken from the IDTechEx RFID knowledgebase. Over 40 companies have sponsored this publication to introduce how your business can benefit from RFID. Supported by GS1 UK, the UK provider of the EPCglobal Network.

The world's most comprehensive RFID case studies database!

The Directory of Printed Electronics Suppliers & Researchers

In depth analysis on RFID and Smart Label technologies from this leading independent journal. We invest tens of thousands of dollars to send our technical experts to conferences and organisations you may not visit. We travel intensively from New Zealand to China, the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Read new forecasts, technology assessments and more. This is not another newsletter full of misleading press releases. It is serious analysis with numbers, figures and graphs.