Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) 2012-2022
Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS)
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This report is for CEOs, marketing, sales, business planning VPs and their teams. It is for suppliers, users and potential users, component and service providers, government agencies, investors, analysts and planners. It is uniquely up to date and comprehensive. This is very important because, in the last year, there have been radical changes in Real Time Locating Systems RTLS in terms of technology and where and why it is primarily used. The uses have now moved well beyond logistics and hospitals that powered most of the early success and our new forecasts detail why there will be a multi-billion dollar business emerging within the next decade. Oil & Gas, Mining, Aerospace and Manufacturing are now among the important adopters of RTLS. We go into this very thoroughly, presenting new ten year forecasts and many new case studies and supplier profiles to illustrate the trends. There is even a detailed report on the latest conference on the subject, the IDTechEx “Energy Harvesting, RTLS & WSN” event.
What will be the market value over the next ten years? Where will the profits be made in future? What are the multiple benefits and paybacks emerging? Which companies should you buy? Which system should you use and who has done something similar already and can advise you on the pitfalls? Which are the most active countries and industries about to adopt this technology? It is all here.
It was prepared by a team led by Dr Peter Harrop who has written, lectured and consulted on global RFID developments, including RTLS, for eleven years and is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject. His company IDTechEx is regularly commissioned to carry out major consultancy projects in this area using its staff and offices in the USA, UK, Germany, Poland and New Zealand and associates across East Asia. With a profusion of figures, tables, supplier profiles and case studies, the report explains and compares the technologies and applications in detail yet in a way understandable to those with only basic scientific training.
Best practice is now seen from Bulgaria to Korea and, in addition to the well-known RTLS suppliers such as Zebra Technologies, Cisco, GE Healthcare, Awarepoint and Aeroscout continuing to land business, one must now track companies such as Decawave, Ubisense, Loc8tor and Samsung for the big new breakthroughs in RTLS technology. IDTechEx is unmatched in its ability to discover and explain what is happening because it updates its RFID Knowledgebase every week as its PhD level consultants intensively tour the globe. This RFID Knowledgebase currently details 4400 RFID projects in 123 countries involving over 4400 organisations. In addition, the IDTechEx contact database lists over 30,000 people interested in RFID.
Publisher >> IDTechEx
Report Category: Telecommunications
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Market size
1.2. The main technologies
1.3. Definitions
1.4. Blurring of boundaries
1.5. Surges of sales in different sectors
1.6. Role model of success – Ubisense
1.7. General trends
1.8. Evolving market segmentation
1.9. Using existing WiFi
1.10. Companies entering the field
1.11. The RTLS value chain
1.12. Geographical location of users
1.13. Applicational trends
1.13.1. Trend of modes
1.13.2. Trend of frequencies
1.13.3. Trend of suppliers
1.14. Trend of standards
1.14.1. Privacy issues
1.14.2. Impediments to adoption of RTLS
1.15. The Total RFID market
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. What is RTLS?
2.1.1. Definitions
2.1.2. Construction of an RTLS system
2.2. What is not RTLS
2.2.1. Needs driving RTLS
2.3. Primary benefits
2.4. Relevant market needs
2.4.1. Case study: Alexandra Hospital/ Singapore National University Hospital, staff, visitors and patients, Singapore
2.5. History
2.6. Tools
2.7. ISO standards for RTLS
2.8. Privacy issues
2.9. Case study: RTLS for private individuals
2.10. Impressions of the IDTechEx Event Energy Harvesting, RTLS and WSN, Munich June 2011
2.10.1. Major advances by Samsung
3. RTLS TECHNOLOGIES
3.1. Variety in technologies
3.2. Zonal
3.2.1. Different views
3.2.2. Supplier case study: Sovereign Tracking Systems US
3.2.3. Supplier case study: RF Code USA
3.2.4. Case study: Mercy Hospital USA
3.2.5. Case study: Felixstowe Dock and Rail Company vehicles UK
3.2.6. Case study: Brigham & Women’s Hospital chooses ultrasound RTLS
3.3. Triangulation and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA)
3.3.1. Case study: BMW vehicles Germany, UK, South Africa
3.4. Global Positioning System (GPS)
3.4.1. The satellites
3.4.2. The Master Control facility
3.4.3. Smaller and more sensitive receivers widen the possible applications
3.4.4. High sensitivity GPS receivers
3.4.5. Who uses GPS
3.4.6. Case study: Tracking children USA
3.5. Supplier case study: Ubisense
3.5.1. Case study Ortrander Eisenhtte
3.5.2. Where the signal comes from
3.5.3. How the signal is deployed and analysed
3.6. Radio fingerprinting and WiFi
3.6.1. Case study: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center equipment USA
3.6.2. Supplier case study: AeroScout USA
3.6.3. Supplier case study G2 Microsystems
3.6.4. Case study: Aobaku schoolchildren, Japan
3.6.5. Case study: John Deere USA
3.7. Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI)
3.7.1. Supplier case study RFTechnologies USA
3.8. Bluetooth
3.9. Near Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER)
3.10. Real Time Locating Systems Using Passive Tags – High Volume RTLS?
4. CHOICE OF RFID FREQUENCY FOR RTLS
4.1. Radio regulations are changing
4.2. No ideal frequency for everything
4.3. Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
4.4. Range versus cost
4.5. Frequency versus range
5. INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS IN ACTION
5.1. IPS used to located medical equipment
5.2. Case study: Opera at the Royal Albert Hall London in 2008
5.3. Supplier case study: Ekahau USA
5.4. Case study: Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital Japan
5.5. Supplier case study Hynix Semiconductor Korea
5.6. Case study: Palmetto Health USA
5.7. Case study: AWAREA personalised marketing/advertising, guidance for the disabled, USA
5.7.1. Supplier case study: BioRfid Solutions
5.7.2. Supplier case study: Student Tracker ™ Program for Absenteeism and Dropouts
5.8. Supplier case study: Verichip Corporation USA
5.8.1. Wander prevention
5.8.2. Infant protection
5.9. Supplier case study Axcess International Inc USA
5.9.1. AXCESS Asset Activator ™
5.9.2. Patient monitoring
5.9.3. Case study: Private school attendance, USA
5.10. Supplier case study: ActiveWave Inc USA
5.11. Supplier case study: Healthcare Pilot USA
5.12. Case study: Intelligent InSites
5.13. Case study: Holy Name Hospital USA
5.14. Case study: Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital USA
5.15. Case study: Merrimac Industries libraries and archiving USA
5.16. Case study: Borgess Medical Center patients USA
5.17. Case study: City halls guiding the blind Japan
5.18. Case study: Jackson Memorial; Hospital assets USA
5.19. Case study: Klinikum Saarbrucken Hospital patients Germany
5.20. Case study: Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital equipment USA
5.21. Case study: Massachusetts General Hospital patients and assets USA
5.22. Case study: Presbyterian Hospital patients USA
5.23. Case study: Changgen Memorial Hospital patients Taiwan
5.24. Case study: Tung Yuan Hospital in Hsinchu, patients Taiwan
5.25. Case study: Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, assets, USA
5.26. Case study: Hospital patients Israel
5.27. Supplier case study PanGo Networks
5.28. Case study: Washington Hospital Center, patients and assets, USA
5.29. Case study: Werribee Mercy Hospital, patient tracking, Australia
5.30. Case study: Wirral Hospital people, UK
5.31. Case study: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust assets UK
5.32. Case study: Metrotown Mall security Canada
5.33. Case study: E.S.E.G. Euro Security Group, locating barcode scanners, Germany
5.34. Case study: Boeing, item level, USA
5.35. Case study: Toyota, real time locating, vehicles USA
5.35.1. Case study: Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust patients UK
5.35.2. Case study: Bon Secours Health System, equipment USA
6. LONG RANGE AND OUTDOOR RTLS IN ACTION
6.1. Benefits and limitations
6.2. Ground Support Equipment Brussels National Airport Belgium
6.3. Supplier case study WhereNet USA
6.4. Case study: AM General Corporation work in progress USA
6.5. Case study: BP, people evacuation, USA
6.6. Case study: Broekman Group The Netherlands
6.7. Case study: Chelopech mine Bulgaria
6.8. Case study: Ford Van Dyke plant work in progress and finished vehicles USA
6.9. Case study: Inco Mine equipment Canada
6.10. Case study: Marion Correctional Treatment center inmates USA
6.11. Case study: NYK Logistics, tracking containers, USA
6.12. Case study: Volkswagen work in progress Germany
6.13. Case study: Yanzhou Mining Group vehicle tracking China
7. COMBINED RTLS TECHNOLOGIES
7.1. Combined technologies
7.1.1. Combined in one tag
7.1.2. Not combined in one tag
7.2. Infrared
7.2.1. Supplier case study: Versus Technology Inc USA
7.3. GPS and GSM, GPRS
7.3.1. Supplier case study: Wherify USA
7.3.2. Supplier case study: Sygade/ Max ID, South Africa/ UK
7.3.3. Supplier case study: Savi Technology
7.3.4. Case Study Dow Chemical
8. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS
8.1. Market 2001 to 2011
8.2. Market 2012-2022
8.3. RFID Market 2012-2022: active versus passive
8.4. Trend in importance of different parts of the RTLS value chain
8.5. Geographical trends
8.6. Applicational trends
8.7. Trend of modes
8.8. Trend of frequencies
8.9. Shakeout in Real Time Locating Systems
8.10. Impressions from the IDTechEx Active RFID and RTLS Summit in 2010
8.11. The future of RTLS – mesh networks
APPENDIX 1: CONTACT DETAILS
APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
APPENDIX 3: GLOSSARY
