Brian Albright, Integrated Solutions magazine: Hospitals utilize thousands of pieces of expensive equipment, much of it highly mobile, while treating patients. Locating those assets in a timely fashion can be a challenge, particularly in larger facilities where tracking down diagnostic equipment, IV pumps, or even something as basic as a wheelchair or table can sometimes take hours — throwing schedules into disarray for both medical staff and patients. The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, a 500-bed, 1.2 million-square-foot facility, solved its asset tracking problems with a real-time location system (RTLS) that has improved asset utilization and eliminated lengthy searches for missing equipment. "We spent a lot of time looking for equipment," says Jim Barnes, manager of OR support services at UCSF. "We have a huge OR with no central storage location of any sort. It was difficult to track things down when we needed them, and we'd have very expensive equipment just disappear for weeks at a time."

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Mind Commerce LLC: With research beginning in 2008, this unique report addresses core technology and business aspects of real-time location services (RTLS) and guides the reader through the most important aspects of enabling technologies including RFID. It covers the critical factors and gives the user the views about the different kinds of RFIDs. The report also addresses the advantages and the bottlenecks for deployment of RTLS applications, evaluating available solutions and the methodologies. The report includes an exhaustive study of leading RTLS companies.
Different types of RTLS are evaluated and the standards and protocols related to them. The report has a great focus on the applications and the key areas that can be addressed by RTLS giving special attention to Vehicle Tracking, Port/Yard Management, Inventory Management and Real Time Tracking solutions. The report also provides an analysis of the most widely used RTLS applications today and provides a vision for anticipated future applications

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Frost & Sullivan: Singapore - August 6, 2009 - The drop in exports has dealt a blow to the radio frequency identification (RFID) market, forcing manufacturers to take drastic measures to stay afloat. Most of them have tightened their budgets on technology-related investments, creating further hurdles to product uptake.
Market participants, however, can take heart from the considerable support offered by the governments in the form of direct funding for vendor initiatives or subsidies to end users intending to adopt this technology. They also provide encouragement schemes in proof of concepts and pilot projects.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.autoid.frost.com), Asia Pacific RFID Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $569.7 million in 2008 and estimates this to reach $2.17 billion in 2015, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.1 percent.
"The Japanese and South Korean governments have promoted extensive research in RFID to keep track of their high-valued assets," says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Parul Oswal. "South Korea is more aggressive than others, and the government is active in initiating funding for R&D, and for actual deployments."
There has also been increasing government sector potential for active RFID deployments in Australia, considering the number of high-valued mobile assets the country owns under various government ministries. More government-backed initiatives and deployments are expected to be rolled out in the next five years across Asia Pacific, as RFID's popularity continues to grow across the region.
Despite these government initiatives, the high capital costs and system integration issues deter vendors and retailers. RFID companies should not fail to justify the business return on investment (ROI) in their eagerness to focus on technology.
There is huge potential for newer applications, where vendors need to demonstrate the uniqueness and innovation of their systems and their ability to provide an appropriate solution to a specific problem. RFID manufacturers have to work with IT experts to develop cost-effective ways to manage data and integrate it with the back-end systems.
"The integration of technologies is increasingly gaining significance due to the need to ensure complete safety and the inclusion of more applications in a single system," notes Oswal. "Active RFID enables a new set of applications when combined with passive and bar code solutions."
Other integration technologies include RFID with closed circuit television (CCTV), smart cards, biometrics, and other access control systems.
Meanwhile, the market has made steady progress toward introducing standards, which has ensured that middleware solutions are better equipped to support the technology than it used to three or four years ago. Standards have also made certain that communication with the hardware is more structured, enabling interoperability.
The establishment of standards has solved issues related to quality and technical glitches, raising the performance of both low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) to a credible level.
"Ultra high frequency (UHF) is now the emerging technology, as various mandates in the retail industry are leading to its extensive adoption," remarks Oswal. "Improvisations on overall tag architecture and form factors have also benefited the RFID inlay industry, increasing growth."
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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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Sanjay Chatterjee, Mind Commerce: This unique report addresses core technology and business aspects of real-time location services (RTLS) and guides the reader through the most important aspects of enabling technologies including RFID. It covers the critical factors and gives the user the views about the different kinds of RFIDs. The report also addresses the advantages and the bottlenecks for deployment of RTLS applications, evaluating available solutions and the methodologies. The report includes an exhaustive study of leading RTLS companies. Different types of RTLS are evaluated and the standards and protocols related to them. The report has a great focus on the applications and the key areas that can be addressed by RTLS giving special attention to Vehicle Tracking, Port/Yard Management, Inventory Management and Real Time Tracking solutions. The report also provides an analysis of the most widely used RTLS applications today and provides a vision for anticipated future applications.

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Research and Markets: In recent years, Wi-Fi in China has enjoyed continuous growth both in industrial use and in the deployment of Wi-Fi City. Industrial Wi-Fi growth has been driven by the increasingly information-based nature of Chinese business, while consumers are attracted to Wi-Fi City because it is often free to access. In 2007, shipments of Wi-Fi APs for industrial use reached 532,300. At present, around 14,300 hotspots are deployed nationwide in China. In 2008, Wi-Fi will experience robust growth in both home use and Wi-Fi City. Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly popular for home use as a result of delays in the awarding of 3G licenses, and the popularity of Wi-Fi City is being driven by service bundling, e.g., a package of services including xDSL, cellular, FTTx, fixed phone, etc. Deployment of Wi-Fi City is currently being accelerated in order to meet increasing demand. This report covers the classification of Wi-Fi City, the business model, the subscriber profile, current status of Wi-Fi City, and market forecasts for Wi-Fi AP/router within each category in China.

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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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