RFID Prices Coming Down?

Oct. 3, 2005
While prices haven't hit the five cent mark that industry analysts name as the price that will propel RFID into market-wide acceptance, Alient Technology is offering its straps at 12.9 and Avery Dennison prices its inlays at 7.9. "These new low prices ...

While prices haven't hit the five cent mark that industry analysts name as the price that will propel RFID into market-wide acceptance, Alient Technology is offering its straps at 12.9 and Avery Dennison prices its inlays at 7.9.

"These new low prices may represent loss-leaders," comments Erik Michielsen, ABI Research's director of RFID and ubiquitous networks. "But when you tie them to the new products and services offered by software companies to help end-users make sense of their RFID data and to the recent spate of EPC Gen 2 announcements, we may have a three-headed 'benevolent monster' that will promote demand.

What we are starting to see is lower cost hardware, tested and proven performance requirements around a new standard and software that enables non-technology focused end-users to make better decisions and find ways to drive revenue growth and cost refinement. All together, these factors support widespread RFID deployments across a wide range of vertical markets, to a degree we have not seen before."

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