Review of RFID in 2007

The leading frequency

The leading frequency in 2007 remained HF (13.56MHz) because so many of these projects were huge from 25 million library books and 16 million travel cards in Beijing to the $6 billion Chinese ID card. In fact, HF RFID just to the ISO14443 specification was responsible for about ten times the expenditure on RFID to any other specification, with large new applications added such as passports and RFID enabled phones. Add supply chain, library and secure access RFID to the ISO15693 specification at HF and we see huge and expanding use of this frequency. In 2007, many step function improvements in HF RFID parameters were announced- from 50% to a factor of ten - though mainly not yet commercialised. That promises well for expanding the adoption of HF RFID in future. Indeed, IDTechEx ended the year by announcing a new report analysing all this under the title “HF RFID - the Great Leap Forward”.