Active RFID and Sensor Networks

Throughout the next ten years, RTLS will dominate the spend on tags but this will consist of many small orders. Mobile phone / cell phone modules will see considerable price erosion as they are increasingly incorporated into the phone circuitry and volumes increase - already NTT DoCoMo have shipped over 29 million cellphones with RFID modules. We see active RFID as intimately involved with many short range radio systems and interfaces, including passive RFID.