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IDTechEx announced a new report “RFID Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2009-2019”, which addresses the global RFID situation. Areas of growth, undersupply and oversupply, and trends are given based on extensive new primary research.

RFID is being adopted worldwide but with very great differences of emphasis as revealed by the IDTechEx Knowledgebase of more than 2,450 case studies in 92 countries. This is a tale of four, very different continents. North America is by far the largest market for RFID in value, number of tags, and number of case studies of RFID in action. That is almost entirely due to the U.S., with its massive orders for military RFID and widespread adoption in all sectors, Canada being a late follower. The primary applications differ greatly between the continents. However, the financial, security, safety sector dominates overall and this