Changes in the Target Markets for Printed Electronics

Interest in simpler tickets and badges as a beginning

Two years ago printed RFID badges by ACREO of Sweden were used in the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA conference. This was the ink stripe type of RFID not incorporating transistors but having PEDOT printed organic stripes, each one representing one bit of data and read by capacitive coupling. It has still not been fully commercialized but a similar PEDOT ink stripe RFID was commercialized in 2006 by Menippos working with printed systems GmbH in Germany. It was in the form of game cards.