全球RFID市場：從標籤到應用系統

Much has been written about RFID over the last 5 years or so, but nowhere has there been a single report that covers the complete RFID component market from tags, both active and passive, through readers and printers, to middleware to application solutions. In the face of this need for clear, comprehensive information about RFID and its benefits, Bloor Research has produced this market report in order to provide an overview of the complete RFID market from tags to applications. If read in conjunction with the Bloor Research white papers, which provide examples of the current state of RFID and how it could be used in an industry sector, it provides the user with a complete single source of information about RFID. It is the intention of Bloor Research to publish further details about the RFID categories introduced in this report, accompanied by Bullseye evaluations of the products in the categories.

• The introduction provides a background to RFID, its current uses and history.
• Architecting RFID Solutions opens up the issues involved from a software perspective in the implementations of RFID solutions
• Key Components of RFID provides a categorisation of the different RFID products available in the market today. These categories are:
  • Active Tags
  • Passive Tags
  • Readers and Antennae
  • Printers
  • Middleware
  • Applications:
    • ePedigree
    • Real Time Location Systems
• What are the standards for RFID provides an overview of the Standards scenario in RFID.
• RFID Market 2007-2008 gives an overview of the RFID market from a Bloor research view point.
• Appendix A contains links to further information about RFID written by the author.
• Appendix B has details of the vendors in the RFID market place, organised by product type.
• Appendix C contains details on the Global Prescence, Marketing and Maturity of these vendors, again arranged by product type.

• Introduction
• Key components of RFID architecting RFID solutions
• Key components of RFID solutions
• Real Time Locations Systems (RTLS)
• What are the standards for RFID?
• The RFID market 2007- 2008
• The RFID market 2007- 2008
• Conclusions
• Appendix A- Further information
• Appendix B- Vendor details
• Appendix C- Global Presence, Marketing and Maturity Review

• Figure 1: Sales by Sector 2006 (Source: IDTechEx1)
• Figure 2: The (not so brief) History of RFID (Source: Deloitte Consulting3)
• Figure 3: Complete RFID Architecture Solution (Source: Microsoft)
• Figure 4: The basic RFID software solution architecture
• Figure 5: RFID Solution Components
• Figure 6: RFID Vendor Value Chain
• Figure 7: Samples of active RFID tags
• Figure 8: Samples of Passive RFID Tags
• Figure 9: Samples of RFID Readers
• Figure 10: RFID Printer (Source: Printronix)
• Figure 11: RFID middleware architecture
• Figure 12: RFID Application Vendors by targeted vertical sector
• Figure 13: RTLS Components
• Figure 14: Pharmaceutical: ePedigree Chain
• Figure 15: Pedigree Legislation status by US State (Source HDMA Government Affairs)
• Figure 16: ePedigree Chain for Aerospace (Source: Axway6)
• Figure 17: RFID vendor numbers by category
• Figure 18: Mergers and Acquisition numbers since 2000 by position in the RFID Value Chain (source IDTechEx7)

• Figure C01: Active tag vendors by HQ country
• Figure C02: Active tag Vendor maturity
• Figure C03: Passive tag Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C04: Passive tag Vendor maturity
• Figure C05: Reader Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C06: Reader Vendor maturity
• Figure C07: Printer Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C08: Printer Vendor maturity
• Figure C09: Middleware Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C10: Middleware Vendor maturity
• Figure C11: Applications Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C12: Applications Vendor maturity
• Figure C13: ePedigree Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C14: ePedigree Vendor maturity
• Figure C15: RTLS Vendors by HQ country
• Figure C16: RTLS Vendor maturity