Printable Electronics Market Outlook: RFID

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) promises a major new revolution in information technology. It can bring enhanced productivity to supply chain management, inventory control, package tracking and a host of other business functions. However, to be widely deployed, RFID tags must be manufactured at exceptionally low cost. Printed electronics offers a way to achieve this goal.

This report reviews the market for printed RFID; both complete tags and antennas. It examines the potential of the latest developments in RFID, including the performance of the first commercial 13 MHz tags to hit the market; research on printed UHF tags; and the impact of printed silicon electronics on the manufacture of RFID tags. It also profiles the activities of 11 organizations involved with the development and manufacture of printed RFID products and provides both an update on the exciting new developments in this field and an eight-year forecast of revenues from the printed RFID sector in volume and value terms.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: PRINTED ELECTRONICS MARKET OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TWO: THE EVOLUTION OF PRINTED ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY

• Materials and Production Issues: Improvements and Outstanding Issues
• Mega-Drivers for Printable Electronics
• How Printed Electronics Can "Save" the Electronics Industry
• Dawn of an Industry?

CHAPTER THREE: PRINTED RFID

• RFID Technology
• Active and Passive Tags
• Generations of RFIDs
• Frequency Issues
• Failure Rate
• Privacy

CHAPTER FOUR: THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF PRINTING RFID

• Arguments for Printing RFID
• The Limits of Printing RFID and Arguments Against It

CHAPTER FIVE: RFID PRICING

CHAPTER SIX: PRINTED RFID TECHNOLOGY

• Antennas
• Tags
• Memory

CHAPTER SEVEN: CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS FOR PRINTED RFID

• Palette-level Tagging
• Item-level Tagging
• Animal and People Tracking
• Other Applications
• The PRISMA Project

CHAPTER EIGHT: FIRMS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES TO WATCH IN THE PRINTED RFID SPACE

• GSI Technologies: Printed Antennas
• IMEC
• Kovio
• Motorola
• ORFID
• OrganicID
• Philips
• PolyIC

CHAPTER NINE: PRINTED SYSTEMS

• RSI ID Technologies
• Semprius

CHAPTER TEN: EIGHT-YEAR FORECASTS OF PRINTED RFID MARKETS

• What Has Changed in the Past Year
• Summary of Forecasts
• Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in this Report
• About the Authors

• Exhibit 1: Major Economic Drivers for Printed Electronics
• Exhibit 2: Industry Sector "Crises" and How TOP Electronics Can Help
• Exhibit 3: TFE' s Partners
• Exhibit 4: TFE' s Printed Memory Specs
• Exhibit 5: Selected RFID Applications
• Exhibit 6: Forecast of Printed RFID Revenues ($ Millions)