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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Active RFID Becomes Big Business
CAMBRIDGE, England, August 25 -- With a new initiative
projected to sell one billion active RFID tags in the next five years the
active RFID market looks set to increase massively before the end of the
decade.
Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - tag with a battery - has
the potential to greatly improve the world around us. By adding sensors, long
range communication, and other exciting technologies to RFID and short range
communications, there is an opportunity to achieve improvements in a wide
range of industries such as real time tracking of items and remote
diagnostics.
The IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase (http://www.rfidbase.com) gives unique insight
into major changes in the RFID market. The number of case studies involving
active RFID has risen 3% in the last year but this disguises the fact that
the best selling type - car clickers - shows marginal increases but other
applications have grown strongly. Last year's 121 applications have now risen
to 210 and the rapid growth continues.
The main types of active tag are semi-passive ones which cannot initiate
a signal to fully active types which can. Expect to see more semi-passive
types in the future - even though they are not the most popular today.
Sales of RFID enabled cellphones will increase too. Cellphones are now
available that have an RFID reader that can emulate an active tag. Growth
will be driven by the applications offered by RFID enhanced phones. A phone
with RFID capability could be used to access public transport, purchase
coffee, and many other transactions.
Currently Europe has the largest number of active RFID case studies,
although relative expenditures between territories may be another matter. The
US Military continues to invest heavily in active RFID systems while Japan
and Korea are setting the pace for innovation with new concepts such as
Ubiquitous Sensor Networks.
IDTechEx considers active RFID to be so important that the company is
staging the world's first major conference and exhibition solely devoted to
active RFID and active RFID combined with WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee and
sensors. The US Department of Defense, Intel, Motorola, Cisco and Siemens are
among the many major organisations that will present. Now that is an idea
whose time has come!
The Active RFID Summit will take place in San Antonio, Texas, November
15-16. To learn more see http://www.activerfidsummit.com.
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