Printed Electronics - the Large Companies Move In

They are rapidly adopting printed electronics to improve safety, security, efficiency and merchandising. It takes the form of smart packaging that records tampering and overheating and communicates via moving colour displays and sound. There are printed moving colour billboards, posters and point of sale materials and it will appear on more packaging. Soon we shall have fully printed RFID to replace many barcodes with something more versatile and reliable and - a strong interest at BP - RFID with printed sensors.