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Real Time Locating Systems 2008-2018

IDTechEx Ltd
April 1, 2008
233 Pages - SKU: CGAQ1766071

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The RTLS value chain mainly revolves around small portable tags, almost always battery powered, interrogators, sophisticated software and system integration. However, other items of hardware are often needed and facilities management, training, support, legacy integration and other services are often involved. IDTechEx find that tags have become a larger part of RTLS cost of ownership by value. They were around 20% in past years but now they are around 36%. This is because schemes will become bigger, with more tags per interrogator and eventually even some disposable tags. There will also be add on and replacement tags for existing schemes. Tags becoming more sophisticated, sometimes with displays, sensors etc.

Most suppliers in the RTLS value chain are in the US where by far the largest market is situated. However, the number of European suppliers is growing rapidly and there will be significant growth in suppliers in East Asia within five years, with interesting developments in Australia and South Africa that appear in some of the case studies we analyze in this report.

The full range of RTLS technologies and systems are analyzed, including:

Wi-Fi
Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
Proprietary and standardised RF systems at UHF, GHz
Infra-red
Ultrasound
Zigbee
GPS, GSM

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1. INTRODUCTION: 1.1. What is RTLS?; 1.2. What is not RTLS; 1.3. Primary benefits; 1.4. Relevant market needs; 1.5. History; 1.6. Tools; 1.7. ISO standard for RTLS
2. RTLS TECHNOLOGIES: 2.1. Variety in technologies; 2.2. Zonal; 2.3. Triangulation and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA); 2.4. Global Positioning System (GPS); 2.5. Radio fingerprinting; 2.6. Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI); 2.7. Near Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER); 2.8. RFID radar; 2.9. Mesh networks linking RTLS tags, interrogators and systems
3. CHOICE OF RFID FREQUENCY FOR RTLS: 3.2. Radio regulations are changing; 3.3. No ideal frequency for everything; 3.4. Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
4. INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS: 4.1. IPS used to located medical equipment; 4.2. Supplier case study: Ekahau USA; 4.3. Case study: Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital Japan; 4.4. Supplier case study Hynix Semiconductor Korea; 4.5. Case study: Palmetto Health USA; 4.6. Case study: AWAREA personalised marketing/advertising, guidance for the disabled, USA; 4.7. Supplier case study: Verichip Corporation USA; 4.8. Supplier case study Axcess International Inc USA; 4.9. Supplier case study: ActiveWave Inc USA; 4.10. Supplier case study: Healthcare Pilot USA; 4.11. Case study: Holy Name Hospital USA; 4.12. Case study: Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital USA; 4.13. Case study: Merrimac Industries libraries and archiving USA; 4.14. Case study: Borgess Medical Center patients USA; 4.15. Case study: City halls guiding the blind Japan; 4.16. Case study: Jackson Memorial; Hospital assets USA; 4.17. Case study: Klinikum Saarbrucken Hospital patients Germany; 4.18. Case study: Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital equipment USA; 4.19. Case study: Massachusetts General Hospital patients and assets USA; 4.20. Case study: Presbyterian Hospital patients USA; 4.21. Case study: Changgen Memorial Hospital patients Taiwan; 4.22. Case study: Tung Yuan Hospital in Hsinchu, patients Taiwan; 4.23. Case study: Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, assets, USA; 4.24. Case study: Hospital patients Israel; 4.25. Supplier case study PanGo Networks; 4.26. Case study: Washington Hospital Center, patients and assets, USA; 4.27. Case study: Werribee Mercy Hospital, patient tracking, Australia; 4.28. Case study: Wirral Hospital people, UK; 4.29. Case study: Metrotown Mall security Canada; 4.30. Case study: E.S.E.G. Euro Security Group, locating barcode scanners, Germany; 4.31. Case study: Boeing, Real Time Locating System (RTLS), item level, USA; 4.32. Case study: Toyota, real time locating, vehicles USA
5. LONG RANGE AND OUTDOOR RTLS: 5.1. Benefits and limitations; 5.2. Supplier case study WhereNet USA; 5.3. Case study: Broekman Group The Netherlands; 5.4. Case study: AM General Corporation work in progress USA; 5.5. Case study: Volkswagen work in progress Germany; 5.6. Case study: Ford Van Dyke plant work in progress and finished vehicles USA; 5.7. Case study: Inco Mine equipment Canada; 5.8. Case study: Yanzhou Mining Group vehicle tracking China; 5.9. Case study: Marion Correctional Treatment center inmates USA; 5.10. Case study: BP, people evacuation, USA; 5.11. Case study: NYK Logistics, tracking containers, USA
6. COMBINED AND PARASITIC RTLS TECHNOLOGIES: 6.1. Combined technologies; 6.2. Parasitic Bluetooth and WiFi; 6.3. Infrared; 6.4. GPS and GSM, GPRS
7. PRIVACY ISSUES
8. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS: 8.1. Market 1998 to 2007; 8.2. Market 2008-2018; 8.3. RFID Market 2008-2018: active versus passive; 8.4. RTLS share; 8.5. Trend in importance of different parts of the RTLS value chain; 8.6. Geographical trends; 8.7. Applicational trends; 8.8. Trend of modes; 8.9. Trend of frequencies; 8.10. Shakeout in Real Time Locating Systems in 2007/8; 8.11. Impressions from the IDTechEx Active RFID and RTLS Summit in December 2007
APPENDIX 1: CONTACT DETAILS
APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS
APPENDIX 3: GLOSSARY
TABLES: 1.1. Some factors driving greater use of RTLS; 1.2. Examples of needs and concerns about RTLS in various sectors.; 1.3. Examples of companies with RTLS systems or appropriate parts and services and the sectors they address; 3.1. The commonly used licence free frequencies for active RFID; 4.1. Required characteristics of an indoor positioning solution.; 4.2. Specification of Activewave jumboTag; 4.3. Equipment Rental Costs: Financial Results*; 4.4. GSH equipment purchasing costs; 4.5. Associate Satisfaction: Nursing Satisfaction Scores; 6.1. Wherify view of RTLS options; 8.1. Global market for RTLS in millions of dollars 1998 to 2007; 8.2. Cumulative sales of RTLS systems to start of 2007; 8.3. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2008-2018; 8.4. Active versus Passive RFID tags, systems, software and services 2008-2018; 8.5. RTLS technologies compared; 8.6. Total market for active RFID including tags and systems; 8.7. Examples of suppliers and developers of RTLS systems
FIGURES: 1.1. The demographic timebomb.; 2.1. Radianse view of the relative merits of some RTLS technologies; 2.2. Example of Zonal RTLS; 2.3. Example of a Sovereign Tracking Systems transceiver; 2.4. RFCode tag and interrogator; 2.5. The TAVIS system from RF Code; 2.6. Trinity Terminal is the largest container handling facility in the UK; 2.7. A NAVSTAR GPS satellite; 2.8. Artist's concept of the GPS satellite constellation; 2.9. System configuration needed to locate, track and monitor assets using an 802.11 network; 2.10. AeroScout WiFi RTLS tags; 2.11. AeroScout WiFi armbands; 3.1. License free frequencies across the world at UHF; 3.2. Technical performance for active RFID in crowded environments as a function of frequency in the view of Savi Technology; 3.3. UWB frequency spread compared with some alternative active RFID bands in the microwave region; 3.4. A Ubisense healthcare application of UWB active RFID; 4.1. Ekahau WiFi tag; 4.2. Watchlet Resident Bracelet; 4.3. Activewave jumboTag; 4.4. Healthcare Pilot tags; 4.5. How the Healthcare Pilot RTLS system works; 4.6. GSH equipment rental costs; 4.7. GSH equipment purchasing costs; 4.8. GSH associate satisfaction; 4.9. Monitoring system for personnel tags; 4.10. Zonal personnel tracking system; 4.11. Using RFID to guide people; 4.12. Miyake white navigation system; 4.13. A Miyake LC Array chipless RFID tag; 4.14. Hospital contact history and monitoring system; 4.15. Scene at hospital; 4.16. EIRIS Technology IRFIDTM Components; 4.17. EIRIS Technology Tags; 4.18. EIRIS Data collecting and equipment tags; 4.19. EIRIS System Architecture; 4.20. ELPAS' System Architecture; 4.21. ELPAS' Healthcare Applications; 4.22. A selection of UWB RFID tags; 4.23. Overall strategic design; 4.24. Patient track & alarm; 4.25. Information systems in Wirral Hospital; 4.26. Analysis - EDR/EIS; 4.27. AeroScout WiFi RTLS tags; 5.1. Real Time Locating Systems - long range triangulation and/or Time Delay of Arrival; 5.2. WhereNet System Components; 5.3. Yanzou Mine; 5.4. The TSI PRISM wireless (RFID) tracking system consists of three primary components:; 5.5. Tag attached at the gate; 5.6. The tag broadcasts its ID signal at three regular intervals; 5.7. Hostlers get instructions via wireless terminal; 5.8. A WhereNet reader locating intermodal containers in a large yard.; 6.1. Agility Healthcare Solutions' mobile asset management solution; 6.2. AgileTracTM tracks the "state" of an asset; 6.3. Versus combined IR/ RFID personnel locator and alarm; 6.4. Hi-Efficiency Infrared (IR) Sensor (VER-4426); 6.5. Radio Frequency (RFID) Sensor (VER-4452); 6.6. Wherifone; 6.7. Wherify system; 6.8. Sygade active tags and tracking units; 6.9. The LoCATe device combines GPS and GSM technologies with GPRS; 8.1. Global market for RTLS in millions of dollars 1998 to 2007; 8.2. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2008-2018; 8.3. Active versus Passive RFID tags, systems, software and services 2008-2018; 8.4. Total market for active RFID tags including systems; 8.5. Asset tags from Axcess

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