Industry Outlook & Trends

Global Adoption Trends &
the Reshaping of Business

RFID is transforming fundamental business operations everywhere, from the supply chain to the factory floor, across every industry, and within every niche.

When it comes to understanding exactly how this amazing technology is reshaping our work, real world information has been exceedingly hard to come by. Until now.

As the global leader in RFID technology, solutions, and innovation, HID has pooled our experts, research partners, and industry insights to create a webinar series and data hub that provide a clear context for understanding what RFID will bring to the decade ahead. Adoption trends. Production efficiency. Safety protocols. Customer satisfaction. Everything you wanted to know about RFID, and where it’s going next, starts right here.

RFID Adoption Trends

RFID tags, readers and software together represent the most popular digital transformation solution for streamlining a range of applications. In the next five sections, we provide an insider’s view of RFID—from the technology itself and the how industries are using it, to how RFID supports and enables megatrends like AI, to what adoption will look like in the next 5-7 years and how your business can start taking advantage now.

“Digitization is the engine of the modern world and our lives within it. Digital identities, which bridge the physical world with the virtual, not only make data more meaningful but also more critical for things like automation, AI and beyond.  That is the story of RFID; a small technology with a virtually limitless impact.”

— Marc Bielman, HID SVP & Identification Technologies Head
Part One

RFID: Small Tech, Big Impact

RFID is helping to bridge physical and virtual worlds, making data more meaningful and enabling everything from automation to AI. ​​In our kickoff episode, Frost & Sullivan’s Roberta Gamble talks with HID SVP & Identification Technologies Head, Marc Bielman, to uncover how and why this small technology is influencing so much.

“Innovative form factors have allowed RFID to do new things and expand into new areas. Extreme temperatures. Hazardous environments. Tighter security. All of it fueled by burgeoning market needs and also traditional drivers like efficiency, convenience, traceability and security.”

— Marc Bielman, HID SVP & Identification Technologies Head
Part Two

RFID Expansion & Innovation

Healthcare. Manufacturing. Supply chains. Consumables. RFID adoption is growing and isn’t slowing down. In the next episode, our hosts dive into the many use cases for RFID technology, the reasons behind its rapid expansion, and most critically, why it’s been so successful in so many different industries and applications.

“Megatrends like AI, IoT, IIoT, traceability, automation and the green economy are driving the need for digitization technologies like RFID. But implementing it in a way that allows users to benefit from the trend will require new approaches, technology and innovation.”

— Marc Bielman, HID SVP & Identification Technologies Head
Part Three

Why Businesses Must Act

Global megatrends are impacting the way we do everything, from day-to-day business to everyday life. In this penultimate episode, our hosts explore how RFID works to enable megatrends and what innovations and approaches will help shape the next generation of the technology.

“The use of RFID is only limited by the human imagination. This makes it exciting when you consider its true potential; the very broad use cases and the possibilities for pushing into any vertical and market. We welcome the challenges. We can’t wait to solve them.”

— Marc Bielman, HID SVP & Identification Technologies Head
Part Four

Solving Real World Problems

What does the future — particularly the next 5-7 years — hold for RFID? The technology has already come so far, so fast. What’s next? In the final episode, Roberta and Marc look at how RFID’s technology and capabilities will evolve to meet expanding applications and new verticals, and in the process, likely double in market size.
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