“While Wi-Fi RTLS (Real-Time Location Systems) vendors expand their markets horizontally, many will rely on healthy vertical markets for sustained growth,” according to ABI Research vice president and research director, Stan Schatt. “Although manufacturing will lead the vertical market for active RFID product sales, healthcare will continue to dominate vertical sales for Wi-Fi RTLS. Not all manufacturing environments lend themselves to Wi-Fi transmission, but healthcare was an enthusiastic early adopter of Wi-Fi applications, including voice over Wi-Fi. And revenue generated from healthcare purchases of Wi-Fi RTLS products will grow to over $264 million by 2012.”
Even though some manufacturing environments will not deploy Wi-Fi, new manufacturing market segments are growing, including pharmaceuticals and semiconductors. ABI Research believes that Wi-Fi RTLS revenue generated from manufacturing customers will grow to more than $136 million by 2012—New York, New York
Editor’s note: RTLS is a technology for tracking and locating assets on a Wi-Fi network. A Wi-Fi tag is attached to each asset. Then, using triangulation of the tag within the network, the asset can then be tracked. The cost of asset tracking is significantly reduced as exiting wireless infrastructure is used.
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