Analysis: 75 Case Studies of Active RFID in Action

For the future, IDTechEx forecasts an increase in longer range applications as they become lower cost and less cumbersome. A possible candidate may be the location of people and assets using single beams rather than triangulation because of the lower cost and simpler infrastructure. That would open up consumer markets for hand held interrogators to find lost children and track pets that carry a small, cheap active RFID tag. This could lead to ubiquitous interrogators in healthcare, industry, etc, to home in on specific items, even for the police to chase thieves by homing in on stolen goods.