IDTECHEX REPORTS

This report provides the most comprehensive view of the topic, giving detailed ten year forecasts by device type and a 20 year outlook. The market is analyzed by territory, printed vs non printed, rigid vs flexible, inorganic vs organic, cost of materials vs process cost and much more, with over 200 tables and figures. Activities of over 700 leading companies are given.

In 2009 the value of the entire RFID market will be $5.56 billion, up from $5.25 billion in 2008. This includes tags, readers and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs and all other form factors. By far the biggest segment of this is RFID cards, and $2.57 billion of the total $5.56 billion being spent on all other forms of RFID - from RFID labels to active tags.

Energy storage for small devices, the subject of this report, forms by far the largest mobile energy storage market today, being much larger and faster growing than the market for heavy energy storage such as automotive and enjoying greater innovation for the future, including transparent and printed batteries. The report mainly concentrates on batteries and capacitors - including the rapid adoption of supercapacitors and hybrids of the two.

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene exhibit extraordinary electrical properties for organic materials, and have a huge potential in electrical and electronic applications such as sensors, semiconductor devices, displays, conductors and energy conversion devices (e.g., fuel cells, harvesters and batteries). This report brings all of this together, covering the latest work from 78 organizations around the world to details of the latest progress applying the technologies. Challenges and opportunities with material production and application are given.

This sourcebook is for those wishing to find customers and create a profitable, fast growing business in printed electronics wherever they choose to be in the value chain

This report reveals many ways in which brands can create a sharp increase in market share, customer satisfaction and profitability. For brand facing electronics companies that means a market of $7.7 billion by 2020, as analysed in the report. To gain very high volume, and therefore lowest costs, by selling across all industries, basic hardware platforms such as the very low cost talking label must be developed. These are discussed. There are 250 pages and a large number of original figures and tables - over 150.

This report is intended for industrialists, investors, market researchers, legislators and others interested in the large new market now being created for batteries that propel hybrid and pure electric cars along the road. It will also inform those studying associated technology and industrial and government initiatives and legislation. The report is suitable for the non technical reader, with introductory appendices and glossary for those new to the subject. However, there are many comparison graphs, tables and sections concerning technical aspects, so those with appropriate technical training will find much to interest them as well.

A variety of e-paper display technologies have been developed which enable completely new products or the introduction of electronic functionality in products where it was previously unavailable. This new report from IDTechEx assesses the full range of non emissive, bistable display technologies, such as electrophoretic, electrochromic, electrowetting, cholesteric LCDs and others. A detailed appraisal of the markets are given with forecasts by application type to 2020.

This report focuses on the requirements and achievements to date on the topic of flexible transparent conductors, where high transparency and high conductivity are required. Worldwide research and design efforts are presented, both from research institutes and companies that are developing the necessary materials and processes. Several technical solutions available are compared, and forecasts are given for the next 10 years.

This report, brand new for 2010, is based on ten years of researching the subject, intensive desk research, visits and interviews. There are chapters on Heavy Industrial, Light Industrial and Commercial, Mobility for the Disabled, Two Wheelers, Golf Cars, Cars, Military, Marine and Other vehicles. That even extends to electric mobile robots, surveillance jellyfish and other Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUVs, bats and electric aircraft. Detailed forecasts for these vehicle categories by numbers and value and the key components are provided for 2010-2020. The trends, technology and planned vehicles are clarified in 185 figures and 58 tables including the historical context. Winning and losing strategies are evaluated. Timelines are given of events to come.

Energy harvesting is the use of ambient energy to provide electricity for small and or mobile equipment, whether electrical or electronic. It is concerned with providing relatively maintenance free, long life equipment, reducing the need for batteries. As is typical in relatively new technologies, there is much hype about energy harvesting and it is tough to find which countries, technologies and suppliers see success and why. This report answers those questions using hard facts.

Wireless Sensor Networks WSN - self organising, self healing networks of small "nodes" - have huge potential across industrial, military and other many other sectors. While appreciable sales have now been established, major progress depends on standards and achieving twenty year life.

This report concerns RFID in the food supply chain, from arable farming and livestock to presentation in the retail store. We even cover some benefits if the RFID tag stays on the food to the private home. Because the tagging of pets and use of RFID on animals and in conservation are closely allied topics, we cover these as well. Consumers also demand more information, as do the police and customs. This report analyses the use of DNA, RFID and other technologies, with a profusion of case studies from across the world.

This report is unique in analysing the use of RFID in the apparel value chain from tagging cloth in manufacture to retail fashion and rented apparel. 138 users and suppliers are profiled. From Chile to Canada and Sweden to Taiwan, there is something to learn from all of them, not just from the unusually broad approach in Germany, Italy, China, Japan and the USA. This industry is on the move in a manner unmatched almost anywhere else in the RFID market.

A revolution is in the making. Electronics will never be the same as new applications are spawned. Invisible, origami, edible electronics, low cost materials and manufacturing will lead to the use of electronics in spaces traditionally bare of their functionality. The research and growth of new technologies, along with new materials and processing methods, is resulting in the increasing penetration of innovative electronics and the emergence of new products in the competitive fields of displays and lighting. Eye-catching, animated billboards; large-area, thin, flexible displays with amazing colour contrasts; windows that are converted into surface lighting elements at night.

Energy harvesting is otherwise known as power harvesting or energy scavenging. It is the use of ambient energy to power small electronic or electrical devices. This report looks at the full range of technologies, covering technical progress, applications, performance criteria still to be met, and ten year forecasts.

The biggest opportunity for OLED displays and organic photovoltaics is when these devices can be flexible, allowing them to be more robust, versatile and made in large areas compared to conventional displays and photovoltaics. However, many of the materials used in OLED displays and organic photovoltaics are sensitive to the environment, limiting their lifetime. These materials can be protected using substrates and barriers such as glass and metal, but this results in a rigid device and does not satisfy the applications demanding flexible devices. Plastic substrates and transparent flexible encapsulation barriers can be used, but these offer little protection to oxygen and water, resulting in the devices rapidly degrading.

The Directory of Printed Electronics Suppliers & Researchers

Active RFID is growing rapidly. Already several applications have been above $100 million and there is more to come. Learn how to use it and how to sell it. Ten year forecasts from 2009 to 2019 show how Active RFID will develop in the years ahead. This IDTechEx report comprehensively analyzes the technologies, players and markets with detailed ten year forecasts, including tag numbers, unit prices and interrogator numbers and prices. Details of over 75 active RFID implementations are given along with over 100 suppliers and full technology analysis - from printed batteries to Wi-Fi RFID to UWB tags. We have constructed ten year forecasts usefully segmented by frequency, application, territory, etc, and illustrated by dozens of tables and figures.

The world's most comprehensive RFID case studies database!

RFID is an extremely powerful enabling technology in airports and aircraft, serving to improve security against criminal attack, safety against general hazards, efficiency, error prevention and data capture and to remove tedious tasks. It can even create new earning streams where it makes tolling feasible without causing congestion and where new airport "touch and go" cards offer new paid services without delays. Learn all about the opportunities, progress so far and needs.

This unique report assesses the huge opportunities for fine chemicals, printing, production equipment and electronics companies in the largest part of the emerging $300 billion printed electronics business - inorganic materials and composites. Semiconductors, dielectrics, conductors, light emitters etc for displays, photovoltaics, transistors and much more are covered. Company profiles and ten year forecasts are given.

This comprehensive report, updated and revised in March 2009 to take into account the global economic situation, gives a thorough analysis of printed and thin film photovoltaics and batteries, with 10 year forecasts to 2019. Included are detailed profiles of 48 companies working on the many different types of technologies.

Printed and thin film transistor circuits will become an $8 Billion market in 10 years, from just $10 Million in 2009. They will drive lighting, displays, signage, electronic products, medical disposables, smart packaging, smart labels and much more besides. The chemical, plastics, printing, electronics and other industries are cooperating to make it happen. Already, over 500 organisations are developing printed transistors and memory, with first products being sold commercially in 2009.

The biggest opportunity for RFID is the item level tagging of all things. This ultimately calls for a very low cost tag, something that printed and chipless RFID technologies have already demonstrated or have the potential to achieve. This is the only report to cover the technologies, players, opportunities and challenges of what will be the most widely used RFID technologies. Detailed forecasts are given and global progress assessed.

Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) seek, continuously and in real-time, to determine the position of an object or person from a distance within a physical space. Uniquely, this new report by IDTechEx brings the subject to life with over 65 case studies of RTLS in action today. We consider all the technologies such as Ultra Wide Band, WiFi systems, and the many other proprietary and standardised systems, in addition to radio fingerprinting, mesh networks and linking GPS, GSM and other positioning devices. Standards, privacy issues and impediments to rollout of RTLS are also considered, as are ten year forecasts.

The RFID business is growing so fast that few applicational sectors can beat that scorching rate of growth. Healthcare is one of them thanks to the new tagging of drugs, real time location of staff and patients and other developments including automated error prevention. This unique report gives a full technical and market analysis illustrated by 70 case studies. It is a vital resource for the healthcare profession and all who wish to support it.

Printed electronics is a term that encompasses thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs), displays, interconnects, power, sensors and even actuators. Thousands of companies have now entered this market. The printing companies today will be the new electronic giants tomorrow. This report is vital reading to understand the opportunity of the technology, players, needs and timelines, giving global coverage from the biggest printing companies in East Asia to paper and packaging companies in Scandinavia to applications of the technology in the Americas.

Detailed ten year forecasts are given plus a full explanation of the technologies. In detail, there are 30 new case studies of RFID in action in the postal and courier service in North America, Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. The major breakthroughs that will provide future success are discussed. Postal services ignoring this accelerating change will become uncompetitive and suppliers missing out will regret it.

This report is the summation of extensive new research by IDTechEx analysts including Chinese native Ning Xiao. Many companies in China were visited and interviewed to obtain this information, which is not available elsewhere. The 317 page report covers over 150 companies developing RFID in China, actual and potential sales, successes and impediments, standards, frequencies and 92 case studies. This is your complete guide to RFID in China, giving an unprecedented level of insight into what is really happening.

It used to be thought that item level RFID meant little more than tagging very low cost retail items - something to do last of all. However, it has become big business and far more profitable than many other RFID sectors because it gives excellent paybacks. In this report we assess over 100 case studies such American Apparel reporting sales increases by 15% to 25% with item level tagging. Detailed forecasts are given including number of tag units sold over the next ten years, average tag price and tag value, in addition to systems value, resulting in a market worth $8.26 Billion in 2018. It describes the next wave of very large orders - not for what is popularly believed and not where most of the industry predicts it will occur. Get ahead with this unique resource.

HF is by far the most important frequency for RFID in value of market. This position will be strengthened in the next few years by dramatic improvements in HF RFID technology such as replacing the silicon chip with printed transistors, leading to 90% reduction in tag cost, new signalling techniques that improve many parameters, elimination of inlays and many other advances. This will make it a much stronger contender in supply chains and asset management.

This is major 283 page report analysing activity in printed electronics in Asia, where much is happening but relatively little has been reported openly. It covers 196 organisations in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Singapore with addresses and contact details, organisational structure, appropriate technology, device objectives, recent and planned announcements, and plans for commercialisation. Much of the information and analysis of trends in this essential reference book is not available elsewhere.

This is the world's first and only report analysing the subject in depth. It compares and analyses the activities of 280 organisations in 19 countries by technology and region. It gives full contact details of these companies and, where appropriate, examples of patenting performance, research programs and scientific papers presented in 2007 onwards.

This report compares and contrasts Near Field Communication (NFC), and particularly RFID enabled mobile phones, with contactless smart cards and tickets. The emphasis is on how they are forms of RFID with advantages and disadvantages and different development paths. A large number of contactless card and ticket schemes and their suppliers across the world are analysed and the lessons of success and failure are revealed. Ten year forecasts are given for all these devices and systems, including the applications they are used in; split by territory; number of units; average unit price; total value of tags; total value of system (including interrogators, software, networking, installation) and much more.

This is the world's first and only report analysing the subject in depth. It compares and analyzes the activities of 209 organizations in North America by technology and region. It gives full contact details of these companies and, where appropriate, examples of patenting performance, research programs and scientific papers presented in 2007 onwards.

There is a great need for profit optimization and careful product positioning and repositioning in the frenetic but unforgiving RFID market that is increasing ten times to become a $26 billion business in 2017. RFID is entering most sectors of corporate, public and private life so understanding how to create enduring profit from such a choice of designs and applications, software, hardware and services, calls for great care and modern management tools.

Discover how Wal-Mart, Tesco, Metro, Marks & Spencer, Benetton and 25 other retailers and suppliers are benefiting from RFID right now!

Learn the unique benefits of Dynamic Short Range Communications, ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi , RFID and Near Field Communication, and explore how they can be used together to great effect.

This is the first comprehensive handbook to cover the full range of terms associated with this exciting, fast moving topic.

This has an introduction and thirty detailed case studies on RFID in the logistics industry, e.g. freight tagging, driver access, condition monitoring, tachometer card. Jargon buster appendix

This has an introduction and thirty detailed case studies on RFID in the healthcare industry, this includes drug and blood tagging, hospital security, as well as patient safety and error prevention. Jargon buster appendix

40 detailed case studies of RFID in Food and Livestock Management

This comprehensive handbook explains the magnitude of technology choices, applications and terms of radio frequency identification RFID.

Everyone agrees that item level tagging is going to be the biggest market for RFID in terms of both spend and number of tags sold. Everyone agrees that item level tagging has its own, special requirements making it different from other categories of RFID such as the tagging of people, animals, pallets, cases and vehicles or RFID in passports, tickets and smart cards. But there the agreement ends...

Ten year forecasts of tag numbers, unit prices and value, plus systems projections are presented. The total market by country is given. There is a full analysis of how IDTechEx sees the number of tags sold increasing tenfold over the next ten years and the market rocketing to around US$632 million in 2017. This 185 page report with over 60 tables and figures and more than 50 case studies is based on research entirely carried out in 2006 from the IDTechEx office in Auckland, New Zealand and using frequent visits to the region by UK experts in RFID staging Masterclasses and presenting at local conferences.

This report contains a sample of global RFID case studies taken from the IDTechEx RFID knowledgebase. Over 40 companies have sponsored this publication to introduce how your business can benefit from RFID. Supported by GS1 UK, the UK provider of the EPCglobal Network.

This 2006/7 report contains a sample of global RFID case studies taken from the IDTechEx RFID knowledgebase. Over 40 companies have sponsored this publication to introduce how your business can benefit from RFID. Supported by GS1 UK, the UK provider of the EPCglobal Network.

Introductory report on the whole subject. Needs, applications and technologies for smart packaging whether consumer, postal, military, healthcare or other. 350 organisations are covered.

Smart packaging brings additional useful and valuable benefits to the consumer. This book focuses on documenting, understanding and describing how unmet consumer needs can be satisfied by smarter consumer packaging, with specific chapters of the food, beverage, household products and health, beauty and personal care market sectors

Electric vehicles just became exciting. For 111 years, electric cars that rely only on a battery - "pure EVs" - have had a range of only 30-50 miles and the humble golf car has been the only type selling in hundreds of thousands every year. However, huge changes have been announced in 2009. Electric vehicles will penetrate the market rapidly to constitute 35% of the cars made in 2025 - 25% hybrids, 10% pure EV. Any motor manufacturer without a compelling line up of electric vehicles is signing its death warrant.

Energy Harvesting Journal provides you with a free daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in February 2009, this free portal covers progress of energy harvesting and energy storage in all its forms. http://www.EnergyHarvestingJournal.com