Now in its eight year, RFID Europe is the premium-content event covering fast growth RFID sectors, full technology analysis and unrivalled market insight.

Happening on 18-19 September, 2007 in Cambridge, UK - RFID Europe 2007's highlight this year is the presentation of RFID technology's use in the aviation industry.

IDTechEx RFID Europe 2007 will have presentations by IATA, Air France KLM, Manchester Airport Group MAG and T-Systems on RFID in aviation.

• MAG runs airports in Australia and the UK and has used RFID for optimizing airport retailing by tracking consumers.


• T-Systems in Germany has been tracking Ground Service Equipment. Others orchestrate aircraft parts supply, taxis and buses and collect tolls at airports using RFID.

IDTechEx predicts that the expenditure on RFID systems for the air industry will rise to $0.76 billion in 2017. That estimate may need to be increased if the new, broader approach taken by the industry continues to bear fruit. The tagging of baggage is now a "done deal" thanks to IATA agreeing a single specification by unanimous vote in 2005. It is now rolling out globally, improving security, cost and efficiency, not least in the high profile aspect of lost baggage. It will peak at two billion tags yearly and the air cargo industry, with similar numbers, is starting to mimic that success. But there is an even bigger picture that will be presented at a forthcoming conference.

Andrew Price of IATA, Geneva will give the latest on the baggage tagging rollout. In the closely allied area of postal RFID, International Post of Belgium, City Link UK and Delivery Management UK will report on the latest innovations. Tube Lines, Sony and BP will look at the logistics applications of RFID. RFID cards are important to airport retailing, gold card privilege schemes, border control and secure access in airports. The conference therefore has a complete parallel session, with nine speakers, to cover this. It includes the huge new market of buying RFID tagged goods with a mobile phone held in close proximity that mimics a payment card. Many new technologies and the standards situation are also in the line up, which even covers a review of the situation in Japan, an early adopter of many new forms of RFID.

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