Active RFID Becomes Big Business

"With a new initiative projected to sell one billion active RFID tags -- tag with a battery -- in the next five years the active RFID market looks set to increase massively before the end of the decade. By adding sensors, long-range communication, and other exciting technologies to RFID and short-range communications, there is an opportunity to achieve improvements in a wide range of industries such as real time tracking of items and remote diagnostics. According to the IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase (www.rfidbase.com), the number of case studies involving active RFID has risen 3% in the last year but this disguises the fact that the best selling type -- car clickers -- shows marginal increases but other applications have grown strongly. Last year's 121 applications have now risen to 210 and the rapid growth continues." Source: integratedmar.com