Review of RFID in 2007

Biggest applicational sector by number of projects

In number of projects, Financial, Security, Safety sector was the biggest at about 19% of the cumulative projects in 2007, in line with our identification of it as the leader in money spent. This bodes well for this sector remaining very important in future, albeit with a different mix of types of large project. In 2007, this pre-eminence in numbers of projects was driven by passports (at least 50 countries now) and RFID financial cards all moving ahead strongly. New adoption of RFID tickets, secure access, RFID enabled phones and other applications also helped this sector. Little wonder that Assa Abloy, specialising in this sector and buying at least one RFID company every year, is probably the biggest company in RFID worldwide. The Chinese ID card scheme may be huge, but it is supplied by a large number of Chinese companies and government system integrators.