Abstract
The biggest opportunity for RFID is the item level tagging of all things -
demanding trillions of tags yearly. This ultimately calls for a tag costing
0.1 cents and deposited directly onto the item itself, such as by printing.
Printed and Chipless RFID technologies have already demonstrated or have the
potential to achieve this. Interestingly, few of the biggest chip RFID
suppliers are working on these technologies. Instead, printers, packagers and
electronics companies are leading development, some seeing the ultra low cost
RFID tag as just the beginning - with integrated ultra low cost components
such as displays, sensors and power to come. This is the only report to cover
the technologies, players, opportunities and challenges of what will be the
most widely used RFID technologies. Detailed forecasts are given and global
progress assessed.
Printed and chipless RFID tags can be electronically interrogated to reveal ID
and other data. They do not contain a microchip and therefore can cost much
less than chip RFID. From being just 0.8% of the RFID market in 2007 with
cumulative sales of 125 million chipless tags to date (compared to 4157
million chip RFID), chipless devices have the potential to grow to 62.3% of
the market in 2017. Ultimately, the end game of RFID will be that RFID is
almost free, in the same way that barcodes are today, and which are printed
onto every item.
There are ten different types of RFID technologies that do not contain a
microchip, these work on different principles. Some versions can be fully
printed. Some of the biggest names in the business now offer both chip and
Chipless RFID in order to cover a full range of user needs. From AstraZeneca
to Calvin Klein, companies are already using them in large volumes and many
paper and packaging companies have licensed the various processes.
Printed and chipless RFID can operate to over 10 meters range and 256 bits of
data, can cost one tenth of their silicon chip equivalents and have a greater
physical performance. Printed and chipless RFID can be materials based, or it
can consist of transistorless circuits. Transparent polymer transistor
circuits are now also available from Philips, PolyIC, OrganicID and Motorola
among others. These directly mimic the circuit on a chip. All this will means
printed and chipless technology is addressing mainstream RFID applications and
will rapidly grow the market by price reductions of one to two magnitudes.
New from 2006, we also cover radar arrays which operate at 60GHz, offer
anticollision and read ranges of up to 300 foot, along with the low frequency,
sub 0.001 cent cost printed RFID stripes which have already been sold in
700,000 gaming cards in Germany. All the technologies, players, challenges and
opportunities are covered in this comprehensive report.
What you will learn
- The world' s only in depth report covering printed and chipless RFID
technologies and companies
- Detailed market forecasts by printed and chipless technology from 2007 to
2017 available only from IDTechEx
- Analysis of the technologies being implemented today
- Detailed case histories and company profiles of the many trials and sales
successes of chipless RFID
- Sales leads and opportunities
- Unbiased assessment of who will be the winners and losers in the shakeout
and what the future will bring
View Cart
