Research and Markets: RFID Markets at $530 million in 2004 are anticipated to Impact Multiple...

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21176) has announced the addition of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 to 2010 to their offering.

RFID EPC tags represent a high growth market

segment in RFID. Markets grow at a solid pace through 2009 when tag prices decline to a penny, then expand. EPC tags are used in retail and the supply chain. If the market reached shipment in the trillions of tags, costs would be decreased even more significantly by the use of nanoparticles that would be applied to paper in the manner that ink is applied now.

RFID markets at $503 million in 2004 are anticipated to impact multiple market segments including tracking cases and asset management. These applications are anticipated to drive market growth for radio frequency identification technology at an average of 67 percent to more than $3.8 billion in 2011. Major initiatives relate to retailer ability to use electronic tags to track inventory from warehouses to stores.

Implementation plans by Wal-Mart, Tesco, Metro AG and Target, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, has set a pace for rapid growth. Improvements in asset management and return on invested capital are all derived from greater visibility to inventory and shipments while in transit. This benefit requires that trading partners, especially carriers and transportation providers, improve their infrastructures to capture this information and then make it available to the manufacturers and retailers.

Key topics covered in this report include:

--RFID Market Shares and Forecasts

--Technical Challenges

--Key Components

--Customer Base

--Roadblocks

--RFID Standards

--Basic Concepts

--RFID HF vs UHF

--Wireless LAN RF Networking Systems

--RFID Government Regulations

--Inkjet Printing

--RFID With A Battery

--RFID Tag Magnetic Field

--Pharmacutical Tracking

Companies Profiled:

--Mark IV Industries

--Intermac

--Alien

--Applied Wireless Identification

--Atmel

--Avery Dennison

--Cadre Technologies

--Checkpoint Systems

--Ember

--Swatch Group/EM Microelectronic

--ESYNC

--Fujitsu

--GlobeRanger

--Hewlett-Packard (HP)

--IBM

--International Paper

--Microsoft

--OAT Systems

--Oracle

--Radianse

--RedPrairie

--RF Code

--Roper Industries/TransCore

--Royal Philips Electronics

--SafeTzone Technologies

--SAMSys Technologies

--Savi Technology

--Seeburger

--Shuffle Master

--SIRIT

--Sundex

--Symbol Technologies

--Tagsys

--Texas Instruments

--TransCore Toll Collection Systems

--Tyco/ADT Security

--Unova

--UPM RAFSEC

--Wannado Entertainment and Wannado City

--Zebra Technologies

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21176.