Real-time Location Services (RTLS)

Overview

This unique report addresses core technology and business aspects of real-time location services (RTLS) and guides the reader through the most important aspects of enabling technologies including RFID. It covers the critical factors and gives the user the views about the different kinds of RFIDs. The report also addresses the advantages and the bottlenecks for deployment of RTLS applications, evaluating available solutions and the methodologies. The report includes an exhaustive study of leading RTLS companies.

Different types of RTLS are evaluated and the standards and protocols related to them. The report has a great focus on the applications and the key areas that can be addressed by RTLS giving special attention to Vehicle Tracking, Port/Yard Management, Inventory Management and Real Time Tracking solutions. The report also provides an analysis of the most widely used RTLS applications today and provides a vision for anticipated future applications.

Key Focus Areas

• RTLS using GPS, WiFi, RFID
• Protocols and Standards of RTLS
• Types of RFID tags and their applications
• The Classifications and advantages of RTLS
• Various mandates regarding RFID focusing on RTLS
• Current applications and next generation RTLS applications
• RFID Industry grow and penetration of RTLS into our daily life
• Importance of RTLS for large scale tracking and management
• GPS based tracking w/o active RFID and implementation of the system
• Analysis of RTLS companies with focus on their applications, solutions and products
• RFID and RTLS business and spheres of influence including healthcare, yard/port management

Companies Evaluated

• AeroScout
• Identec
• Savi
• Intelleflex
• Ekahau
• Tagsense
• WhereNet
• Pinc Solutions
• ContainerTrac

Target Audience

• RTLS and RFID hardware, software, and solution vendors and related professional services companies
• Managed RTLS service providers, outsourced RFID solutions and RTLS application providers, and RFID service bureau operators
• Personnel responsible for automating Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Inventory Tracking, Fleet Management, Yard/Dock Management and other business processes
• Healthcare management personnel responsible for tracking patients, staff personnel, equipment, inventory, and other critical resources
• Retailers and personnel responsible for merchandise inventory and ordering processes, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Merchandise tracking and fraud prevention
• Companies interested in optimizing their RFID business process strategies for Tracking and Telemetry with a special focus on large scale tracking.
• Venture Capitalist and Startup companies