How Converters Can Make RFID Labels

Back to the future

RFID is going the same way. One day—perhaps in 2016, perhaps in 2020—RFID functionality will mostly be printed directly on to packaging and products, possibly in the trillions, and will use special electronic inks. In the universities and research laboratories, there are already many potential technologies for printing even the transistor circuit in the RFID chip. However, a large RFID label business will remain because many applications require the ruggedness or clever features RFID labels afford. During the next 15 years, the large and enduring label market may increase production to hundreds of billions of labels yearly.