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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Market Assessment
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RFID Market Shares and Forecasts
Technical Challenges
Key Components
Customer Base
Roadblocks
RFID Standards
Basic Concepts
RFID HF vs UHF
Wireless LAN RF Networking Systems
RFID Government Regulations
Inkjet Printing
RFID With A Battery
RFID Tag Magnetic Field
Pharmacutical Tracking

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 to 2010
RFID EPC tags represent a high growth market segment in RFID. Markets grow at a solid pace through 2009 when tag prices decline to a penny, then expand. EPC tags are used in retail and the supply chain.

If the market reached shipment in the trillions of tags, costs would be decreased even more significantly by the use of nanoparticles that would be applied to paper in the manner that ink is applied now.

RFID markets at $503 million in 2004 are anticipated to impact multiple market segments including tracking cases and asset management. These applications are anticipated to drive market growth for radio frequency identification technology at an average of 67 percent to more than $3.8 billion in 2011. Major initiatives relate to retailer ability to use electronic tags to track inventory from warehouses to stores.

Implementation plans by Wal-Mart, Tesco, Metro AG and Target, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, has set a pace for rapid growth.

Improvements in asset management and return on invested capital are all derived from greater visibility to inventory and shipments while in transit. This benefit requires that trading partners, especially carriers and transportation providers, improve their infrastructures to capture this information and then make it available to the manufacturers and retailers.

Companies Profiled

Mark IV Industries
Intermac
Alien
Applied Wireless Identification
Atmel
Avery Dennison
Cadre Technologies
Checkpoint Systems
Ember
Swatch Group/EM Microelectronic
ESYNC
Fujitsu
GlobeRanger
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
IBM
International Paper
Microsoft
OAT Systems
Oracle
Radianse RedPrairie
RF Code
Roper Industries/TransCore
Royal Philips Electronics
SafeTzone Technologies
SAMSys Technologies
Savi Technology
Seeburger
Shuffle Master
SIRIT
Sundex
Symbol Technologies
Tagsys
Texas Instruments
TransCore Toll Collection Systems
Tyco/ADT Security
Unova
UPM RAFSEC
Wannado Entertainment and Wannado City
Zebra Technologies

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