Review of RFID in 2007

Leading countries by number of projects

Through 2007, the USA retained its lead in number of RFID projects but China leapt from number five to number three, overtaking Japan and Germany. This tells us that there are a vast number of new RFID projects in China that will take up the slack now that the glory days of the national ID card are over. They are hugely varied from people and construction materials to mail bags and the prospect of having to tag 150 million pet dogs and 2.4 billion pigs yearly by law. Maybe the 37.5 billion cigarette packets produced every year will be RFID tagged. For a full analysis read the IDTechEx report RFID in China.