| 1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 1.1. | Brief History of RFID |
| 1.2. | RFID Market to 2036 |
| 1.3. | Total RFID Market Size 2024-2036, $ billions |
| 1.4. | Market size by tag value by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.5. | Market size by tag value by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.6. | Market size by application, hardware and software 2024-2036, $ billions |
| 1.7. | Largest markets in 2025 vs 2036 |
| 1.8. | Favourite RFID frequencies |
| 1.9. | Value chain and RFID tag types |
| 1.10. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.11. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.12. | Average sales price of passive UHF (RAIN) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 1.13. | Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.14. | Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.15. | Walmart Grows its RFID Mandate |
| 1.16. | UHF (RAIN) RFID: The Highlights |
| 1.17. | UHF (RAIN) RFID: Forthcoming Developments |
| 1.18. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.19. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.20. | Average sales price of passive HF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 1.21. | Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.22. | Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.23. | The use of contactless cards is decreasing with the advent of mobile wallets |
| 1.24. | Flexible Integrated Circuits May Scale NFC for Smart Packaging |
| 1.25. | HF/NFC RFID: The Highlights |
| 1.26. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.27. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.28. | Average sales price of passive LF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 1.29. | Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.30. | Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards, by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.31. | LF RFID: The Highlights |
| 1.32. | RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.33. | RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 1.34. | Total value of battery assisted and active RFID by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.35. | Change in active RFID systems due to BLE and LPWAN |
| 1.36. | Top Level Market Value of Passive RFID inlays and end use Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 1.37. | Americas RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 1.38. | Asia-Pacific RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 1.39. | Europe RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 1.40. | Middle East & Africa RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 1.41. | RFID companies by gross sales |
| 1.42. | Impediments to the growth of RFID markets |
| 1.43. | Outlook for RFID |
| 2. | INTRODUCTION, HISTORIC RFID SALES, AND ADDRESSABLE OPPORTUNITY |
| 2.1. | RFID |
| 2.2. | RFID system choices |
| 2.3. | RFID technologies: The big picture |
| 2.4. | The RFID value chain |
| 2.5. | Passive RFID |
| 2.6. | Passive RFID Systems |
| 2.7. | Battery Assisted Passive /Semi Active tags |
| 2.8. | Examples of Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) RFID sensors |
| 2.9. | RFID sensors |
| 2.10. | Active RFID |
| 2.11. | Distinguishing things a long way away with active RFID |
| 2.12. | Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) |
| 2.13. | Change in active RFID systems due to BLE and LPWAN |
| 2.14. | Historic Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag sales 2012 to 2024 |
| 2.15. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag sales in units, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.16. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag Average Selling Price, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.17. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag market size, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.18. | Historic Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag sales 2012 to 2024 |
| 2.19. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag sales in units, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.20. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag Average Selling Price, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.21. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag market size, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.22. | Historic Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag sales 2012 to 2024 |
| 2.23. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag sales in units, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.24. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag Average Selling Price, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.25. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag market size, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.26. | Historic Active RFID tag sales 2017 to 2024 |
| 2.27. | Active tag sales in units, 2017- 2024 |
| 2.28. | Active tag Average Selling Price, 2017- 2024 |
| 2.29. | Active tag market size, 2017- 2024 |
| 2.30. | Historic Passive RFID Interrogators (Readers) tag sales 2012 to 2024 |
| 2.31. | Passive RFID Interrogators sales in units, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.32. | Passive RFID Interrogators market size, 2012- 2024 |
| 2.33. | RFID Standards (ISO) |
| 2.34. | HF RFID & NFC Applications |
| 2.35. | HF RFID/NFC Growth |
| 2.36. | UHF (RAIN) RFID Trends |
| 2.37. | Four Drivers of RAIN RFID |
| 2.38. | EPC Gen2v3 |
| 2.39. | RFID Systems/Middleware |
| 2.40. | RFID Software Business (1) |
| 2.41. | RFID Software Business (2) |
| 2.42. | RFID Software business (3) |
| 2.43. | Impediments to highest volume RFID |
| 3. | MARKETS BY APPLICATION AND VALUE CHAIN POSITION |
| 3.1. | Total RFID Market Size 2024-2036, $ billions |
| 3.2. | Market size by tag value by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 3.3. | Market size by tag value by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 3.4. | Market size by application, hardware and software 2024-2036, $ billions |
| 3.5. | Current and future forms of payback by applicational sector |
| 3.6. | Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals |
| 3.7. | RFID in Healthcare and pharmaceuticals |
| 3.8. | RFID Applications in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals |
| 3.9. | Real Time Locating Systems in Hospitals |
| 3.10. | Example of RFID paybacks Healthcare and pharmaceuticals |
| 3.11. | New Regulations and Adoption Barriers |
| 3.12. | Case Studies of Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals |
| 3.13. | Plymouth NHS, UK, uses RFID to Track Their Medical Devices |
| 3.14. | Bluesight Scales RFID Medication Tracking Across 2,400 Hospitals |
| 3.15. | Becton Dickinson Prototypes RFID for Item Level Tracking of Pre-Filled Syringes |
| 3.16. | RFID Streamlines Implant Logistics at Implantcast |
| 3.17. | Barriers of RFID adoption in healthcare sectors |
| 3.18. | IDTechEx Outlook: RFID Current Role within Medical / Healthcare |
| 3.19. | Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods |
| 3.20. | Pallet/case tagging: False start |
| 3.21. | Retail apparel, item level (1) |
| 3.22. | Retail apparel, item level (2) |
| 3.23. | Retail General & Apparel |
| 3.24. | Retail & Apparel Lead in Global UHF RFID Penetration |
| 3.25. | EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) Drives Item-Level Traceability Requirements |
| 3.26. | The impact from Walmart's mandate |
| 3.27. | Walmart Grows its RFID Mandate |
| 3.28. | M&S RFID roll-out |
| 3.29. | Retail Apparel Payback |
| 3.30. | RFID for anti-counterfeiting |
| 3.31. | Case Studies of Apparel & Retail |
| 3.32. | Examples of retailers using RAIN RFID and growing |
| 3.33. | Retail Companies Who have implemented RFID since 2023 |
| 3.34. | Retail Companies Who have implemented RFID since 2023 |
| 3.35. | METI, Japan, target 100 billion tags/year by 2025 is not be realized |
| 3.36. | Case Study: RFID Demand Pull (1) |
| 3.37. | Case Study: RFID Demand Pull (2) |
| 3.38. | RFID in Retail & Apparel Quick Summary |
| 3.39. | Retail Food & Drink |
| 3.40. | Using RFID to Tag Food and Drink |
| 3.41. | Current Challenges and Obstacles and why adoption remains low |
| 3.42. | US FDA Mandated Food traceability by January 2026 |
| 3.43. | Kroger's RFID Rollout Targets Freshness and Sustainability |
| 3.44. | Aviation Industry |
| 3.45. | Airports and Airlines use RFID for baggage claim |
| 3.46. | Airline and Airport for RFID Growth |
| 3.47. | Competing technologies to RFID: Computer vision |
| 3.48. | AirAsia Tracks Life Jackets Using RFID |
| 3.49. | Secure access and contactless payment |
| 3.50. | NFC and HF RFID within Financial Transactions |
| 3.51. | Secure access and contactless payment |
| 3.52. | Smart ticketing |
| 3.53. | Smart ticketing |
| 3.54. | Smart ticketing vs contactless payments |
| 3.55. | Benchmark of competing technologies for smart ticketing |
| 3.56. | Logistics, Parcels & Postal: Asset Tracking, Manufacturing |
| 3.57. | Logistics and Parcel Handling Are Emerging Frontiers for RFID Growth |
| 3.58. | Postal and courier services |
| 3.59. | UPS to deploy RFIDs through its facilities |
| 3.60. | Logistics, Asset Tracking, Manufacturing |
| 3.61. | Tracking Logistics Containers |
| 3.62. | RFID tracks automotive body panels |
| 3.63. | Case studies of RFID in food and other logistics industry |
| 3.64. | Chipotle Uses Pallet-Level RFID for Traceability and Food Safety |
| 3.65. | McDonalds uses RFID for Sustainability & Efficiency |
| 3.66. | Laundry/rented textiles |
| 3.67. | Laundry/rented textiles |
| 3.68. | Others |
| 3.69. | E-Passports |
| 3.70. | Animal Tagging |
| 3.71. | RFID provides more consumer engagement and enables more data use |
| 3.72. | RFID embedded in consumer electronics devices (1) |
| 3.73. | RFID embedded in consumer electronics devices (2) |
| 3.74. | RFID Sensors |
| 3.75. | RFID Sensor Types |
| 3.76. | RFID Sensors: Main choices |
| 3.77. | Powercast's RFID Sensor |
| 3.78. | Passive RFID Sensors (Electronic): Case studies |
| 3.79. | Passive UHF RFID sensors with printed electronics |
| 3.80. | LG Sensing Smart Card: Commercial product with a printed antenna to test water salinity. Launched in Korea |
| 3.81. | Thin finger print sensors using organic photodetectors |
| 3.82. | Smart Packaging |
| 3.83. | Functional applications of NFC Within Smart packaging on Consumer goods |
| 3.84. | NFC Smart Packaging & Apparel within the Luxury Sector |
| 3.85. | Barriers To NFC Smart packaging Adoption |
| 3.86. | Smart packaging with flexible hybrid electronics |
| 3.87. | Flexible Integrated Circuits May Scale NFC for Smart Packaging |
| 3.88. | Flexible IC Pilots and Case Studies for Circular Economy |
| 3.89. | NFC for product registration and authentication |
| 3.90. | 'Sensor-less' sensing of temperature and movement |
| 3.91. | NFC Smart Packaging & Apparel within the FMCG Sector |
| 3.92. | SharpEnd using NFC for connected experiences |
| 3.93. | RFID and Smart Packaging: SWOT analysis |
| 3.94. | RFID and smart packaging: Conclusions |
| 4. | PASSIVE RFID: TAG COST TEARDOWN, MARKET VALUE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS |
| 4.1. | Passive RFID tags, total number 2024-2036, billions |
| 4.2. | Passive RFID tags, market value, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 4.3. | RFID Range versus cost |
| 4.4. | Passive RFID: Technologies by operating frequency |
| 4.5. | Anatomy of passive HF and UHF tags |
| 4.6. | Challenges in contacting HF/NFC coils |
| 4.7. | Antenna Technology Choices |
| 4.8. | Antenna Manufacturing Technologies: Comparison Table |
| 4.9. | RFID Antennas: New Technologies |
| 4.10. | Printed RFID antennas struggle for traction: Is copper ink a solution? |
| 4.11. | Conductive ink requirements for RFID and smart packaging |
| 4.12. | IC Attachment |
| 4.13. | IC attachment processes |
| 4.14. | Inlay assembly today |
| 4.15. | Label Conversion |
| 4.16. | RFID Manufacturing trends |
| 4.17. | Passive RFID price teardown, HF and UHF |
| 4.18. | Surviving in a commodity inlay market |
| 4.19. | Fully printed ICs have struggled to compete with silicon |
| 4.20. | Current approaches to printed logic |
| 4.21. | Flexible metal oxide ICs |
| 4.22. | Benefits of flexible/printed logic |
| 4.23. | Save on IC attach cost? |
| 4.24. | Investment into metal oxide ICs continues |
| 4.25. | Pragmatic FlexIC further plan to revolutionises UHF and NFC Applications |
| 4.26. | SWOT analysis: Evaporated metal oxide ICs on flexible substrates |
| 5. | THREATS TO PASSIVE RFID |
| 5.1. | Passive RFID - SWOT Analysis |
| 5.2. | QR codes/Barcodea - SWOT Analysis |
| 5.3. | Machine vision - SWOT Analysis |
| 5.4. | Threats to passive RFID: Machine vision? |
| 5.5. | Amazon Fresh Replaces RFID technology within Amazon Fresh Stores |
| 5.6. | Facial recognition system |
| 5.7. | Combine RFID and computer vision? |
| 5.8. | Passive Bluetooth |
| 6. | MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE UHF (RAIN) RFID |
| 6.1. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 6.2. | Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 6.3. | Average sales price of passive UHF (RAIN) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 6.4. | Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 6.5. | Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 6.6. | UHF (RAIN) RFID: The Highlights |
| 6.7. | UHF (RAIN) RFID: Forthcoming Developments |
| 6.8. | RAIN RFID ICs versus tag numbers sold |
| 6.9. | Comment on methodology |
| 7. | MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE HF (AND NFC) RFID |
| 7.1. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 7.2. | Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 7.3. | Average sales price of passive HF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 7.4. | Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 7.5. | Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 7.6. | HF/NFC RFID Market Trends |
| 8. | MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE LF (125KHZ, 134KHZ) RFID TAG |
| 8.1. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 8.2. | Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 8.3. | Average sales price of passive LF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2024-2036, US cents |
| 8.4. | Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 8.5. | Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards, by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 9. | MARKETS AND PROFITABILITY OF ACTIVE RFID |
| 9.1. | Active RFID Market |
| 9.2. | Change in active RFID systems due to BLE and LPWAN |
| 9.3. | How many competing LPWAN technologies? |
| 9.4. | Overview of wireless technologies |
| 9.5. | Comparison of WLAN networking protocols |
| 9.6. | Comparison of LPWAN capabilities |
| 9.7. | RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 9.8. | RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 9.9. | Total value of battery assisted and active RFID by application 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 10. | MARKET FOR RFID INTERROGATORS |
| 10.1. | (RFID readers) |
| 10.2. | Overview |
| 10.3. | Qualcomm Announces UHF Integration into Snapdragon Platform |
| 10.4. | RFID Interrogator (reader) numbers 2024-2036, millions |
| 10.5. | RFID Interrogator (reader) price 2024-2036, US cents |
| 10.6. | RFID Interrogator (reader) market value 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 10.7. | RFID Interrogator (reader) market value 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11. | MARKETS BY GEOGRAPHY |
| 11.1. | Total Value of Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.2. | Total Value of Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.3. | Total Value of Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.4. | Total Value of Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.5. | Total Market Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.6. | Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.7. | Total Value of Passive RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.8. | Total Value of Passive RFID inlays by Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.9. | Top Level Market Value of Passive RFID inlays and end use Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.10. | Top Level Market Value of Passive RFID inlays and end use Geography, 2024-2036, $ millions |
| 11.11. | Americas RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 11.12. | Asia-Pacific RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 11.13. | Europe RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 11.14. | Middle East & Africa RFID Use: Key Conclusions |
| 11.15. | RFID Companies Headquarter Geography |
| 11.16. | Comment on methodology |
| 12. | SUCCESSES, FAILURES, TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES |
| 12.1. | Dynamics of the RFID value chain |
| 12.2. | Tag manufacturing value chain |
| 12.3. | Key company acquisition (1) |
| 12.4. | Key company acquisition (2) |
| 12.5. | RFID profitability (1) |
| 12.6. | RFID profitability (2) |
| 12.7. | Largest orders, best selling products, dominant suppliers in future |
| 12.8. | Largest suppliers of chips |
| 12.9. | Largest suppliers of tags, inlets, straps and detailed value chain for high volume |
| 12.10. | Examples of companies in the chip to label value chain |
| 12.11. | UHF RFID readers |
| 12.12. | Equipment supply |
| 12.13. | Outlook for RFID |
| 13. | RFID SOLUTION PROVIDERS |
| 13.1. | The RFID value chain (1) |
| 13.2. | The RFID value chain (2) |
| 14. | COMPANY PROFILES |
| 14.1. | Access to company profiles on the IDTechEx portal |