ABI Research: Total revenue earned from RFID transponders, readers, software and services will amount to more than $5.6 billion in 2009, according to the latest market data from ABI Research.
“The recession has had an undeniable effect on deployment plans,” notes practice director Michael Liard, “but despite some project deferrals and terminations, there will be market growth, albeit fragmented.”
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EE Times Asia: Noting that the healthcare industry has always been an early adopter of Wi-Fi, a new study from ABI Research stated that revenue from sales of Wi-Fi-enabled healthcare products worldwide will total $4.9 billion in 2014. This represents an increase of nearly 70 percent over the current figure.
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Business Wire: Recent decades have seen the widespread adoption of short-range
wireless communications, including wireless LANs (Wi-Fi),
ultra-wideband (UWB), and RFID. All of these can be used as part of
real-time location systems (RTLS). But according to a new Research
Brief from ABI Research, a preoccupation with the technologies alone
is misplaced: a more useful concept is "real-time intelligence
visualization" (RTIV), in which the technology becomes the means to an
end, not the end itself.
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ABI Research: Wi-Fi real-time location systems (RTLS) require dense deployments of supplementary access points to accurately triangulate and then locate assets and people.
According to ABI Research, it is no surprise that most equipment vendors fail to publicize the inadequate number of access points presently employed.
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ABI Research: Asset Management for Automotive, Defense, Healthcare, and Transportation Vertical Markets
Closed loop applications, including asset management and work in process tracking, have been part of the overall RFID market for more than five years. Recently active RFID vendors have faced some new competition from Wi-Fi-based location system providers. The asset management market has also received greater media attention and general interest over the past year. This study focuses on the market for active, rather than passive, tag systems.
ABI Research analyzes the impact Wi-Fi vendors will have on the market, and explains the differences between active RFID and Wi-Fi systems. Both applications and vertical markets are discussed in this study. Quantitative market analysis is also provided: shipments are broken down by frequency and technology; revenues are also reported for tags, readers, software, and services.
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