Market Studies

RFID Report:
A New Horizon for Accountable Society

Release: May 2004

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    Overview:


    Goals

     

    Radio Frequencies ID (RFID) technology attracts various groups of users, starting from multitude of commercial applications and going further to military and homeland security applications.

     

    The report researches the RFID landscape by examining the current state of the technology, standards, market and the industry. The study looks to provide a deeper understanding to a wide audience RFID specifics. It is concentrated on the successes and limitations encountered with the current iterations of available RFID products.  It also looks further, until 2010, with market forecast and technologies on the horizon.

     

     Scope

     

    This Report consists of a number of separate Sections that can be viewed independently. There are two major ReportÕs parts:  Technology and Market. 

     

    In the Technology part, Report discusses RFID standards, regulatory issues, and shows differences in regional developments of RFID.  This part also researches various RFID technologies, processes, types of these devices and their characteristics.  Limitations and advantages of each type are stressed.

     

    In the Market Part, Report discusses RFID applications, market characteristics and provides the market forecast. It also summarizes survey of the major industry players with detail analysis of their portfolio.

     

    Report provides Summary of its findings.

     

     Research Methodology

     

    Considerable research was done using the Internet and information from various Web sites was studied and analyzed; evaluation of publicly available marketing and technical publications was conducted. Telephone conversations and interviews were held with industry analysts, technical experts and executives. In addition to these interviews and primary research, secondary sources were used to develop a more complete mosaic of the market landscape, including industry and trade publications, conferences and seminars.

     

    The overriding objective throughout the work has been to provide valid and relevant information. This has led to a continual review and update of the information content.

     

    Target Audience

     

    This report provides the RFID technology and market analysis and assessments that are useful for service providers, retail operators, vendors, network operators, investors and end users seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the RFID opportunities and barriers.

     

    For systems vendors, integrators and others the report provides an analysis and assessment of competing RFID products currently available as well as an estimation of the overall opportunities in the coming years. The end users can gain a more thorough understanding of productÕs market and capabilities as well as the economics of using RFID to improve operational efficiency.

     

     

     

    Table of Contents:

     

     

    1.0 Introduction

    1.1 What is RFID

    1.2 Why RFID?

    1.3 History

     

    2.0 Applications

    2.1 Commercial

    2.1.1     Healthcare

    2.1.2     Manufacturing Processes

    2.1.3     Control Process

    2.1.4     Retail

    2.1.5     Life Stock

    2.1.6     Intelligent Highway

    2.1.7     Security

    2.1.8     Library and Archives

    2.1.9     Other

    2.2 Military

    2.2.1     Sensors

    2.2.2     Movement of Inventory

    2.2.3     IDs

    2.2.4     Other

    2.3 Homeland Security

    2.3.1     Identification

    2.3.2     Protection and Security

     

    3.0 Technologies

    3.1 Passive Devices

    3.2 Active Devices

    3.3 Electronic Articles Surveillance

    3.4 Anti-Collision

    3.5 Disposable

    3.6 Structures

    3.6.1     Chip

    3.6.2     Chipless

    3.6.3     Other

    3.7 Packaging

    3.8 Parameters

    3.9 Industry Structure

    3.9.1     Hardware

    3.9.2     Software

    3.9.3     Integrators

    3.9.4     R&D

     

    4.0 Standards and Regulatory

    4.1 Forums and Standards Bodies

    4.2 Regional Differences

    4.3 Globalization

    4.4 Major Standards

     

    5.0 Market Drivers and Barriers

     

    5.1 Drivers

    5.1.1 OPEX Savings

          5.1.2 CAPEX Considerations

          5.1.3 Technological Factor

    5.2 Barriers

           5.2.1 Privacy: Big Brother

           5.2.2 Price Consideration

           5.2.3 Competition

           5.2.4 Interference

     

    6.0 Market Forecast

    6.1 Model Assumptions

    6.2 Market Characteristics

    6.2.1     Segmentations 

    6.2.1.1Technology

    6.2.1.2 Standards

    6.2.1.3 Regions

                6.2.1.4 Transponders

    6.2.1.5 Readers

    6.2.1.6  Printers/Encoders

    6.2.1.7  Software

    6.2.1.8 Services

     

    6.2.2     Estimate

    6.3 Sensitivity Analysis

     

    7.0 RFID Vendors

    7.1 Groups

    7.2 List

    3M

    Acsis

    Acumen Business Solutions

    Alien

    Atmel

    Checkpoint Systems

    Compu-Power

    Crosslink

    DTE Automation

    Escort Memory Systems

    Epic

    Datamax

    HK Systems

    ID Systems

    Infineon Technologies

    Intermec

    Intrepid Security Solutions

    Matrix

    Maxell

    MPI Label Systems

    MVS-RFID

    Pdc-RFID

    Prodexnet

    Printronix

    RFIDGraphics

    Philips Semiconductor

    ST LogiTrack

    Sun Microsystems

                Tagsys

                ThingMagic

                TYCOSensormatic

    TI

    Weber RFID Systems

    Zebra technologies

    Zellweger

     

    8.0 Pilots and Trials

    9.0 Current Cases

    9.1 Gillette

          9.2 Procter & Gamble

          9.3 Wal-Mart

          9.4 Other

    10.0 Groups of users

    11.0 Conclusions