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Market Research Report

Real Time Locating Systems 2009-2019 (RTLS)

Published by IDTechEx Ltd.
Published July, 2009 Product code 98403
Content info 247 PAGES Tables 20+ Figures 70+ Case Studies 65+
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This publication has been discontinued on January 18, 2012.

Below is the updated product.

Real Time Locating Systems 2012-2022
Published: January, 2012
Product code: 227801

Introduction

Abstract

“The RTLS market will grow from $153 Million in 2009 to $2.6 Billion in 2018.”

Description

Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) are electronic systems that are intended to locate small electronic devices on people or things at any time. There are many situations calling for RTLS, particularly now that it has become affordable and the mobile devices that are sensed have, in many cases, become small and convenient. In 2009, there are 50 RTLS suppliers, rising to 200 in 2014, reflecting the market growth from $153 Million in 2009 to $2.58 Billion in 2019.

The RTLS value chain

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 35%. 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

Report Statistics

  • Pages: 243
  • Tables: 20+
  • Figures: 70+
  • Case Studies: 65+
  • Forecasts to: 2019
  • Last update: Q3 2009

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

1. INTRODUCTION

  • 1.1. What is RTLS?
    • 1.1.1. Definitions
    • 1.1.2. Construction of an RTLS system
  • 1.2. What is not RTLS
    • 1.2.1. Remote location not navigation
    • 1.2.2. RFID Radar and other options
  • 1.3. Primary benefits
  • 1.4. Relevant market needs
    • 1.4.2. Case study: Alexandra Hospital/ Singapore National University Hospital, staff, visitors and patients, Singapore
  • 1.5. History
  • 1.6. Tools
  • 1.7. ISO standard for RTLS

2. RTLS TECHNOLOGIES

  • 2.1. Variety in technologies
  • 2.2. Zonal
    • 2.2.2. Supplier case study: Sovereign Tracking Systems US
    • 2.2.3. Supplier case study: RF Code USA
    • 2.2.4. Case study: Mercy Hospital USA
    • 2.2.5. Case study: Felixstowe Dock and Rail Company vehicles UK
    • 2.2.6. Case study: Brigham & Women' s Hospital chooses ultrasound RTLS
  • 2.3. Triangulation and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA)
    • 2.3.1. Case study: BMW vehicles Germany, UK, South Africa
  • 2.4. Global Positioning System (GPS)
    • 2.4.1. The satellites
    • 2.4.2. The Master Control facility
    • 2.4.3. Smaller and more sensitive receivers widen the possible applications
    • 2.4.4. High sensitivity GPS receivers
    • 2.4.5. Who uses GPS
    • 2.4.6. Case study: Tracking children USA
  • 2.5. Radio fingerprinting
    • 2.5.2. Supplier case study: AeroScout USA
  • 2.6. Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI)
    • 2.6.1. Supplier case study RFTechnologies USA
  • 2.7. Near Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER)
  • 2.8. Real Time Locating Systems Using Passive Tags - High Volume RTLS?

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)
  • 3.5. Range versus cost
  • 3.6. Frequency versus range

4. INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS

  • 4.1. IPS used to located medical equipment
  • 4.2. Case study: Opera at the Royal Albert Hall London in 2008
  • 4.3. Supplier case study: Ekahau USA
  • 4.4. Case study: Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital Japan
  • 4.5. Supplier case study Hynix Semiconductor Korea
  • 4.6. Case study: Palmetto Health USA
  • 4.7. Case study: AWAREA personalised marketing/advertising, guidance for the disabled, USA
    • 4.7.1. Supplier case study: BioRfid Solutions
    • 4.7.2. Supplier case study: Student Tracker ™ Program for Absenteeism and Dropouts
  • 4.8. Supplier case study: Verichip Corporation USA
    • 4.8.1. Wander prevention
    • 4.8.2. Infant protection
  • 4.9. Supplier case study Axcess International Inc USA
    • 4.9.1. AXCESS Asset Activator ™
    • 4.9.2. Patient monitoring
    • 4.9.3. Case study: Private school attendance, USA
  • 4.10. Supplier case study: ActiveWave Inc USA
  • 4.11. Supplier case study: Healthcare Pilot USA
  • 4.12. Case study: Holy Name Hospital USA
  • 4.13. Case study: Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital USA
  • 4.14. Case study: Merrimac Industries libraries and archiving USA
  • 4.15. Case study: Borgess Medical Center patients USA
  • 4.16. Case study: City halls guiding the blind Japan
  • 4.17. Case study: Jackson Memorial; Hospital assets USA
  • 4.18. Case study: Klinikum Saarbrucken Hospital patients Germany
  • 4.19. Case study: Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital equipment USA
  • 4.20. Case study: Massachusetts General Hospital patients and assets USA
  • 4.21. Case study: Presbyterian Hospital patients USA
  • 4.22. Case study: Changgen Memorial Hospital patients Taiwan
  • 4.23. Case study: Tung Yuan Hospital in Hsinchu, patients Taiwan
  • 4.24. Case study: Vanderbilt Children' s Hospital, assets, USA
  • 4.25. Case study: Hospital patients Israel
  • 4.26. Supplier case study PanGo Networks
  • 4.27. Case study: Washington Hospital Center, patients and assets, USA
  • 4.28. Case study: Werribee Mercy Hospital, patient tracking, Australia
  • 4.29. Case study: Wirral Hospital people, UK
  • 4.30. Case study: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust assets UK
  • 4.31. Case study: Metrotown Mall security Canada
  • 4.32. Case study: E.S.E.G. Euro Security Group, locating barcode scanners, Germany
  • 4.33. Case study: Boeing, Real Time Locating System (RTLS), item level, USA
  • 4.34. 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
    • 6.1.1. Combined in one tag
    • 6.1.2. Not combined in one tag
  • 6.2. Parasitic Bluetooth and WiFi
    • 6.2.1. Bluetooth
    • 6.2.2. WiFi
    • 6.2.3. Case study: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center equipment USA
    • 6.2.4. Case study: Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust patients UK
    • 6.2.5. Case study: Bon Secours Health System, equipment USA
    • 6.2.6. Supplier case study G2 Microsystems
    • 6.2.7. Case study: Aobaku schoolchildren, Japan
  • 6.3. Infrared
    • 6.3.1. Supplier case study: Versus Technology Inc USA
  • 6.4. GPS and GSM, GPRS
    • 6.4.1. Supplier case study: Wherify USA
    • 6.4.2. Supplier case study: Sygade/ Max ID, South Africa/ UK
    • 6.4.3. Supplier case study: Savi Technology
    • 6.4.4. Case Study Dow Chemical
    • 6.4.5. Supplier case study Siemens Roke Manor

7. PRIVACY ISSUES

8. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS

  • 8.1. Market 1998 to 2008
  • 8.2. Market 2009-2019
  • 8.3. RFID Market 2009-2019: 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
  • 8.11. Impressions from the IDTechEx Active RFID and RTLS Summit
  • 8.12. The future of RTLS - mesh networks

APPENDIX 1: CONTACT DETAILS

APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

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
  • 2.1. Comparison of passive tag RTLS options
  • 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 2008
  • 8.2. Cumulative sales of RTLS systems to start of 2009
  • 8.3. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2009-2019
  • 8.4. Active versus Passive RFID tags, systems, software and services 2009-2019
  • 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

  • 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
  • 2.12. Complementary RFID technologies
  • 2.13. Mojix Star system
  • 3.1. License free frequencies across the world at UHF, changing all the time
  • 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
  • 3.5. Range versus cost
  • 3.6. Frequency versus range
  • 4.1. Ubisense Screenshot: Typical on-stage spatial localisation zones
  • 4.2. Ekahau WiFi tag
  • 4.3. Watchlet Resident Bracelet
  • 4.4. Activewave jumboTag
  • 4.5. Healthcare Pilot tags
  • 4.6. How the Healthcare Pilot RTLS system works
  • 4.7. GSH equipment rental costs
  • 4.8. GSH equipment purchasing costs
  • 4.9. GSH associate satisfaction
  • 4.10. Monitoring system for personnel tags
  • 4.11. Zonal personnel tracking system
  • 4.12. Using RFID to guide people
  • 4.13. Miyake white navigation system
  • 4.14. A Miyake LC Array chipless RFID tag
  • 4.15. Hospital contact history and monitoring system
  • 4.16. Scene at hospital
  • 4.17. EIRIS Technology IRFIDTM Components
  • 4.18. EIRIS Technology Tags
  • 4.19. EIRIS Data collecting and equipment tags
  • 4.20. EIRIS System Architecture
  • 4.21. ELPAS' System Architecture
  • 4.22. ELPAS' Healthcare Applications
  • 4.23. A selection of UWB RFID tags
  • 4.24. Overall strategic design
  • 4.25. Patient track & alarm
  • 4.26. Information systems in Wirral Hospital
  • 4.27. Analysis - EDR/EIS
  • 4.28. 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 2008
  • 8.2. Forecast of global RTLS market by value in millions of dollars 2009-2019
  • 8.3. Active versus Passive RFID tags, systems, software and services 2009-2019
  • 8.4. Total market for active RFID tags including systems
  • 8.5. Asset tags from Axcess
  • 8.6. Three generations of Active RFID
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