1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1.1. Brief History of RFID 1.2. RFID Market to 2033 1.3. Total RFID Market Size 2021-2033, $ billions 1.4. Market size by tag value by application 2021-2033, $ millions 1.5. Market size by tag value by application 2021-2033, $ millions 1.6. Market size by application, hardware and software 2021-2033, $ billions 1.7. Largest markets in 2023 vs 2033 1.8. Governments spend big on RFID 1.9. Non-government successes 1.10. Favourite RFID frequencies 1.11. Value chain and RFID tag types 1.12. RFID companies by gross sales 1.13. RFID market forecasts for passive RFID tags by application and frequency 1.14. The impact on RFID market from chip and other raw materials shortage 1.15. Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.16. Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.17. Average sales price of passive UHF (RAIN) RFID by application 2021-2033, US cents 1.18. Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application 2021-2033, $ millions 1.19. Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application, 2021-2033, $ millions 1.20. The impact on UHF RFID market from Walmart’s mandate 1.21. RAIN RFID: The Highlights 1.22. UHF (RAIN) RFID Tag Value 2021-2028, $ millions 1.23. RAIN RFID ICs versus tag numbers sold 1.24. Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.25. Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.26. HF/NFC RFID: The Highlights 1.27. Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.28. LF RFID: The Highlights 1.29. RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.30. RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 1.31. Change in active RFID systems due to BLE and LPWAN 1.32. Trends by territory 1.33. Progress with RFID in China 1.34. RFID and IoT 1.35. The IoT Ecosystem 1.36. Overview of wireless technologies 1.37. Impediments to the growth of RFID markets 1.38. Outlook for RFID 2. INTRODUCTION, HISTORIC RFID SALES, AND ADDRESSABLE OPPORTUNITY 2.1.1. RFID 2.1.2. RFID operating principles 2.1.3. RFID system choices 2.1.4. RFID technologies: The big picture 2.1.5. Passive RFID 2.1.6. Passive RFID Systems 2.1.7. Battery Assisted Passive /Semi Active tags 2.1.8. Examples of Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) RFID sensors 2.1.9. Active RFID 2.1.10. Distinguishing things a long way away with active RFID 2.1.11. Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) 2.1.12. Change in active RFID systems due to BLE and LPWAN 2.1.13. RFID Sensors: Main choices 2.1.14. RFID sensors 2.1.15. The RFID value chain 2.1.16. Applications of RFID 2.2. Historic RFID tag sales 2005 to 2018 2.2.1. 2005 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.2. 2008 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.3. 2011 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.4. 2014 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.5. 2015 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.6. 2016 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.7. 2017 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.8. 2018 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.9. 2019&2020 tag sales in units, ASP, tag value $ millions 2.2.10. RFID Standards (ISO) 2.2.11. UHF (RAIN) RFID Trends 2.2.12. Four Drivers of RAIN RFID 2.2.13. EPC Gen2v2 2.2.14. Near Field Communication (NFC) 2.2.15. Comparison of NFC enabled devices and contactless smart cards 2.2.16. RFID Systems/Middleware 2.2.17. RFID Software Business (1) 2.2.18. RFID Software Business (2) 2.2.19. RFID Software business (3) 2.2.20. Impediments to highest volume RFID 3. MARKETS BY APPLICATION AND VALUE CHAIN POSITION 3.1.1. RFID Market Size 3.1.2. Total RFID Market Size 2021-2033, $ billions 3.1.3. Market size by tag value by application 2021-2033, $ millions 3.1.4. Market size by tag value by application 2021-2033, $ millions 3.1.5. Market size by application, hardware and software 2021-2033, $ billions 3.1.6. Prevalence of RFID projects for each applicational sector 3.1.7. Future trend of projects for each applicational sector 3.1.8. Current and future forms of payback by applicational sector 3.1.9. Healthcare and pharmaceuticals 3.1.10. RFID in Healthcare and pharmaceuticals 3.1.11. Example of RFID paybacks Healthcare and pharmaceuticals 3.1.12. Real Time Locating Systems 3.1.13. Recent UHF RFID adoption in healthcare sectors 3.1.14. Barriers of RFID adoption in healthcare sectors 3.2. Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods 3.2.1. Pallet/case tagging: False start 3.2.2. Retail apparel, item level 3.2.3. The impact from Walmart’s mandate 3.2.4. M&S RFID roll-out nears completion 3.2.5. Retail Apparel Payback 3.2.6. Examples of retailers using RAIN RFID and growing 3.2.7. RFID for anti-counterfeiting 3.2.8. METI, Japan, target 100 billion tags/year by 2025 3.2.9. IDTechEx view on the METI announcement 3.2.10. Case Study: RFID Demand Pull 3.3. Airline 3.3.1. Airlines and Airports 3.3.2. Competing technologies to RFID: Computer vision 3.4. Postal and courier services 3.4.1. Postal and courier services 3.4.2. First worldwide project for tracking postal cargo using UHF RFID 3.4.3. UPS to deploy RFIDs through 100 facilities in 2022 3.5. Secure access and contactless payment 3.5.1. Secure access and contactless payment (1) 3.5.2. Secure access and contactless payment (2) 3.6. Smart ticketing 3.6.1. Smart ticketing 3.6.2. Smart ticketing vs contactless payments 3.6.3. Smart ticketing vs facial recognition payments 3.6.4. Benchmark of competing technologies for smart ticketing 3.7. Logistics, Asset Tracking, Manufacturing 3.7.1. Logistics, Asset Tracking, Manufacturing 3.7.2. Tracking Logistics Containers 3.7.3. RFID tracks automotive body panels 3.7.4. RFID in food and other logistics industry 3.8. Laundry/rented textiles 3.8.1. Laundry/rented textiles 3.8.2. NFC antennas incorporated in textiles 3.8.3. HID Global acquired Invengo Textile business 3.9. Others 3.9.1. E-Passports 3.9.2. Animals 3.9.3. RFID provides more consumer engagement and enables more data use 3.9.4. RFID embedded in consumer electronics devices 3.10. RFID sensors 3.10.1. RFID Sensors: Main choices 3.10.2. Passive RFID Sensors (Electronic): Case studies 3.10.3. Passive UHF RFID sensors with printed electronics 3.10.4. LG Sensing Smart Card: Commercial product with a printed antenna to test water salinity. Launched in Korea 3.10.5. Thin finger print sensors using organic photodetectors 3.11. Smart Packaging 3.11.1. RFID and smart packaging: An introduction 3.11.2. Smart packaging with flexible hybrid electronics 3.11.3. ‘Sensor-less’ sensing of temperature and movement 3.11.4. NFC for product registration and authentication 3.11.5. SharpEnd using NFC for connected experiences 3.11.6. RFID and smart packaging: SWOT analysis 3.11.7. RFID and smart packaging: Conclusions 3.12. Analysis of RFID case studies 3.12.1. Analysis of RFID case studies 4. PASSIVE RFID: TAG COST TEARDOWN, MARKET VALUE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS 4.1. Passive RFID tags, total number 2021-2033, billions 4.2. Passive RFID tags, market value, 2021-2033, $ millions 4.3. The impact on RFID market from chip and other raw materials shortage 4.4. RFID Range versus cost 4.5. Passive RFID: Technologies by operating frequency 4.6. Anatomy of passive HF and UHF tags 4.7. Challenges in contacting HF/NFC coils 4.8. Antenna Technology Choices 4.9. Antenna Manufacturing Technologies: Comparison Table 4.10. RFID Antennas: New Technologies 4.11. Printed RFID antennas struggle for traction: Is copper ink a solution? 4.12. Conductive ink requirements for RFID and smart packaging 4.13. IC Attachment 4.14. IC attachment processes 4.15. Inlay assembly today 4.16. Label Conversion 4.17. RFID Manufacturing trends 4.18. Passive RFID price teardown, HF and UHF 4.19. Surviving in a commodity inlay market 4.20. Fully printed ICs have struggled to compete with silicon 4.21. Current approaches to printed logic 4.22. Flexible metal oxide ICs 4.23. Benefits of flexible/printed logic 4.24. Save on IC attach cost? 4.25. Investment into metal oxide ICs continues 4.26. SWOT analysis: Evaporated metal oxide ICs on flexible substrates 4.27. Smart tags with a flexible silicon IC 4.28. IMEC / Holst Centre Roadmap 5. THREATS TO PASSIVE RFID 5.1. SWOT Analysis – QR Code/Barcode 5.2. SWOT Analysis – Machine vision 5.3. Threats to passive RFID: Machine vision? 5.4. Facial recognition system 5.5. Combine RFID and computer vision? 5.6. Passive Bluetooth 6. MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE UHF (RAIN) RFID 6.1. Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 6.2. Passive UHF (RAIN) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 6.3. Average sales price of passive UHF (RAIN) RFID by application 2021-2033, US cents 6.4. Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application 2021-2033, $ millions 6.5. Total Value of UHF (RAIN) RFID inlays by application, 2021-2033, $ millions 6.6. UHF (RAIN) RFID Market Trends (1) 6.7. UHF (RAIN) RFID Market Trends (2) 6.8. Comment on methodology 7. MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE HF (AND NFC) RFID 7.1. Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 7.2. Passive HF (13.56MHz, NFC) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 7.3. Average sales price of passive HF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2021-2033, US cents 7.4. Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2021-2033, $ millions 7.5. Total value of HF (13.56MHz) RFID inlays and cards by application 2021-2033, $ millions 7.6. HF/NFC RFID Market Trends 8. MARKET DATA FOR PASSIVE LF RFID 8.1. Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 8.2. Passive LF (125KHz, 134KHz) RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 8.3. Average sales price of passive LF (13.56MHz) RFID by application 2021-2033, US cents 8.4. Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards by application 2021-2033, $ millions 8.5. Total value of LF RFID inlays and cards, by application 2021-2033, $ 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 2021-2033, millions 9.8. RFID market forecasts for battery assisted passive RFID, active RFID tag numbers 2021-2033, millions 10. MARKET FOR RFID INTERROGATORS (RFID READERS) 10.1. Overview 10.2. RFID Interrogator (reader) numbers 2021-2033, millions 10.3. RFID Interrogator (reader) price 2021-2033, US cents 10.4. RFID Interrogator (reader) market value 2021-2033, $ millions 10.5. RFID Interrogator (reader) market value 2021-2033, $ millions 11. MARKETS BY COUNTRY 11.1. Leading countries 11.2. Asia RFID Use: Key Conclusions 11.3. USA RFID Use: Key Conclusions 11.4. Europe RFID Use: Key Conclusions 11.5. Trends by territory 12. SUCCESSES, FAILURES, TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES 12.1.1. Dynamics of the RFID value chain 12.1.2. Tag manufacturing value chain 12.1.3. Successes and revenues (1) 12.1.4. Successes and revenues (2) 12.1.5. Key company acquisition (1) 12.1.6. Key company acquisition (2) 12.1.7. Key company acquisition (2) 12.1.8. RFID profitability 12.2. Largest orders, best selling products, dominant suppliers in future 12.2.1. Largest suppliers of chips 12.2.2. Largest suppliers of tags, inlets, straps and detailed value chain for high volume 12.2.3. Examples of companies in the chip to label value chain 12.2.4. UHF RFID readers 12.2.5. Equipment supply 12.2.6. Outlook for RFID 13. APPENDIX 1: RFID SOLUTION PROVIDERS 13.1. The RFID value chain (1) 13.2. The RFID value chain (2) 14. 14. COMPANY PROFILES 14.1. Avery Dennison 14.2. HID Global 14.3. SML 14.4. Impinj 14.5. TalkinThings 14.6. PragmatIC 14.7. Xerafy 14.8. Wiliot 14.9. ioTech 14.10. SharpEnd 14.11. Fujian Yuchen Microelectronics Co. 14.12. Primo1D 14.13. Muhlbauer 14.14. Copprint 14.15. American Semiconductor Inc 14.16. Atheraxon 14.17. Advanced Material Development