Earlier this week I was at RFID World in Las Vegas. Even though it is not the main RFID trade-show in the US it was interesting for a number of reasons.

Tag vendors appear to have recovered from the price reductions of the last few years and seem to focus high quality/yields and high volume (very high volume) opportunities.

RFID readers form factors are exploding clearly and I was able to see north of 30 types of readers/antennas combinations made specifically for a particular situation/use case. This includes SDIO/CF, small PocketPC based devices, creative use case based antennas and cool looking form factors from Samsung (yes they do have UHF readers) and several others I can’t even describe.

This is all goodness for the industry which now has to provide answers to a larger number of requests and opportunities in what was before considered fringes or niche areas, not big enough to justify hardware investments.

This new wave of hardware push is going to enable software vendors and system integrators’ to provide solutions in more areas and continue the acceleration of the adoption of RFID.

Do you have in mind a reader form factor that does not exist yet?