Seen that? - RFID Market Size - Discrepancies?

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RFID Market Size - Discrepancies? The RFID Weblog

The Yankee Group just released a report estimating that the RFID market opportunity will reach $4.2 Billion (USD) in 2008. That $4.2 Billion will cover a variety of different types of technology and services, Line 56 reports: That opportunity will be distributed across several domains, as RFID involves enterprise applications, middleware, physical infrastructure (e.g. tags and readers), and other IT categories. Interestingly, IDC reported just a month ago its estimate of the [...] Read More


RFID Market Size: It Is All in How You Define RFID The RFID Weblog

Here's more about the market size for RFID. Glyn Holland of IDTechEx explains what's behind the conflicting analyst reports about the RFID market size: "Several analysts, including IDTechEx, have recently released market research reports covering growth in the RFID industry. To sum up some of the figures, press releases from several different analysts published in the last few weeks put the total RFID market in 2010 to be either $1.5 Billion, [...] Read More


RFID in Museums - Another Growing Market The RFID Weblog

Museums around the world are beginning to implement ubiquitous computing environments in order to enhance the visitor's experience. A recent article in CIO magazine describes the uses. Museums are organizations that you might not have thought would have a big need for technology. (Great architecture and lighting -- yes. Information technology -- no.) Yet they seem to be big spenders on technology these days. Some of the ubiquitous computing environments will [...] Read More


Current trends in SCM solutions fuel development of RFID Supplychainer

Market research company, RNCOS, has published a report recently titled "RFID Industry Analysis 2006,". In this report, as one of the results, it's been mentioned that RFID's use in global supply chains is helping advance the technology from its traditional and established closed-loop applications such as security/access control, automobile immobilization, animal tracking, and toll collection. Their study shows that even though the challenge remains in the availability of low-cost specialized [...] Read More


Shift of focus in RFID industry in Europe Supplychainer

LogicaCMG published a report recently about the situation of the RFID market and there was this interesting point in it regarding a shift of focus in RFID market in europe. Until 12 months ago, vendors targeted the open supply chain in the retail industry, hoping to capitalize on the high volume of RFID tags and readers. But, many vendors have widened their focus and are targeting opportunities in other market [...] Read More