IDTechEx has studied the RFID market for almost 20 years. Our latest version of the RFID market research report, "RFID Forecasts, Players and Opportunities 2022-2032", provides a comprehensive overview covering passive RFID (for UHF, HF and LF frequencies), battery assisted passive, active RFID and chipless RFID technologies, players, and markets. This report presents an unbiased analysis of primary data gathered through our interviews with key players throughout the value chain (many of whom supply data to us under non-disclosure agreements that allow us to aggregate the data into a total) as well as secondary data from all available sources, and it builds on our expertise in the RFID industry. This report gives extensive forecasts and depth that no other source can match.

 

Despite a 5% decline in the global RFID market in 2020 compared to 2019, due to COVID-19's influence, the market rebounded well in 2021. The global RFID market is expected to be worth $11.6 billion in 2021, rising to $12.2 billion in 2022, according to IDTechEx. This comprises RFID labels, cards, fobs, and any other form factors, as well as tags, readers, and software/services for both passive and active RFID.

 

COVID-19 is accelerating digital transformation. For example, IDTechEx has observed the retail business, the largest RFID application sector in terms of tag numbers, adopting RFID at a quicker rate. According to IDTechEx, retail apparel alone will require over 20 billion RFID labels in 2022 - although there is still some way to go, with RFID accounting for just roughly 26 percent of the entire addressable market for apparel in 2022. In the HF sector, contactless card sales remain the strongest, driven mostly by contactless payment, transportation, and secure access applications, with 2.6 billion cards demanded in 2021. In the LF sector, animal tagging (such as pigs, lambs, and pets) continues to be significant since it is still a legal obligation in many more regions, with 640 million tags being used in this sector in 2021.

 

In total, IDTechEx predicts that 28.4 billion passive RFID tags will be sold in 2021, up from 23.8 billion in 2020, representing a double-digit growth rate. The majority of such expansion is due to passive UHF RFID labels. However, in 2021, UHF (RAIN RFID) tag sales by value will be just 30% of HF tag sales (including NFC), owing to the higher price point of HF tags used for security (such as payments, access, etc.) against the cheaper, largely disposable UHF (RAIN) tags used for tagging items.

 

We assess the RFID industry in a variety of ways using new and unique information gathered globally by IDTechEx research analysts. Each market is thoroughly examined, with detailed historical data by application type provided from 2005 to 2020, followed by a prediction from 2021 and every year thereafter until 2027. We also provide a long-term forecast for 2032. Key forecasts including in this report are listed below:

 

~1. 10-year prediction of tag numbers, average sales price, and market value of Passive RFID, Battery-assisted Passive RFID, Active RFID, and RFID readers://

 

Forecasts for passive RFID are given separately for each of the application areas listed below:

 

Additionally, the report provides units, average selling price and total value for RFID readers in the following categories:

 

 

The research conducted by IDTechEx ultimately provides ten-year forecasts by application area including tags, readers, software and services for the following markets:

 

 

Data is also provided for other sectors including trends by territory, value chain positioning, NFC, chip vs chipless and more. Cumulative sales of RFID are analyzed. Progress of key companies is provided in addition to a matrix of hundreds of suppliers.

 

A price teardown is conducted for the two main types of passive RFID inlays - UHF and HF RFID.

 

IDTechEx evaluates the key data in this report to answer key questions such as:

 

 

For example, IDTechEx discovered that there are now emerging or established leaders in most places of the value chain across the various technologies after conducting comprehensive interviews with suppliers, but that only a few businesses had revenues of more than $100 million. There are still numerous opportunities, which are evaluated in this report.

 

Our level of detailed analysis allows us to account for data throughout the value chain, for example, inlay sales lag behind the number of IC sales by several months which is considered in our forecasts.

 

In the "RFID Forecasts, Players and Opportunities 2022-2032" report, major players in various parts of the value chain are identified, and current and potential major orders and milestones are examined. Those who do well in terms of sales figures are sometimes less impressive in terms of dollars taken, and vice versa. Naturally, not everyone will choose to serve the most "price-constrained", high-volume markets. For them, we look at several significant niches that are emerging as well as a few smaller opportunities with even less competition.

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