ABI Research today announced bearish prognostications for near-term pharma-tagging, estimating that the industry will only start tagging about ten drugs in 2006. This stands in stark contrast to predictions of just last year, when life science tag shipments were predicted to more than triple from 2005 to 2006.
The next chapter: writing RFID label information by hand.
How much investment in security is enough?
After several years of articles stating RFID would spell its death knell, end users are finding advantages to using the humble bar code.
The U.K. printing equipment developer has launched a division to help product manufacturers add RFID to their serialization marking systems.
This is the third article in a four-part series from Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, who predicts that this year will be the one RFID vanishes. This article considers privacy, standards and frequencies, the transition from Gen1 to Gen2, and the rise of analytics.
End users and academics have identified research projects across several industries that will require tens of millions of dollars in investments over the next five years.
Alien Technology, the Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of RFID readers and inlays, enjoys a current valuation of more than a half-billion dollars. This sum is based on the value of a recent divestiture by Quan Ventures.
British Telecom’s RFID unit launched its first off-the-shelf product, offering customers an active tag system to help track and manage reusable business assets.
RFID reader manufacturer ThingMagic of Cambridge, Massachusetts, this morning announced private funding from networking giant Cisco Systems and Nicholas Negroponte, the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT.