The Business Case for Active RFID

IDTechEx research has determined that the sales of active systems including the tags will now grow very rapidly from $0.55 billion in 2006 to $6.78 billion 2016. Often this is done by replacing nothing - new markets are created.

In an analysis of 75 Active RFID case studies from 18 countries by IDTechEx, the largest number of projects was in logistics which had around twice the number of each of the nearest contenders - air industry, automotive/transportation and healthcare. In the case studies, the main items that were tagged were containers, followed by vehicles, conveyances and people, and this probably reflects the market as a whole. Car remote locking devices are products in their own right of course and do not tag anything. Tagging people is a significant and growing sector.