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Highlights from RFID Europe 2008

IDTechEx's leading RFID Europe 2008 event, staged in Cambridge, UK once again led the field delivering an excellent show for all attendees.

Vibrant RFID markets to be analysed in RFID Europe

Printed electronics is used in RFID to a steadily increasing extent as volumes start to exceed those met in any other form of electronics.

Vibrant RFID markets

The global RFID market continues its rapid growth as record orders up to $0.5 billion each are serviced. This year demand for RFID is on target for $5.3 billion globally as it powers its way to $27 billion in 2018. Indeed, much is now happening in Europe, although it is the US and China that share top slot as RFID spenders at present.

Significant RFID Roll-Outs in the Postal Sector

In 2007, approximately 650 billion articles will be sent through postal and courier systems around the world. After retail, the tagging of each postal item is the next largest potential market for RFID by volume of tags. There are numerous significant RFID roll-outs in this sector which are under publicized, and here Raghu Das from IDTechEx summarises the latest progress.

Active RFID Attracts More Big Money

With the launch of an RFID Investment Summit to be held in Boston on Feb 20, Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx looks at the recent investor interest in RFID and particularly active RFID and Real Time Locating Systems.

RFID in the Postal and Courier service

The second biggest application of item level RFID after retail. 10 year forecasts.