What: Active RFID and RTLS Conference

When: December 5-6, 2007

Where: Dallas, Texas, USA


The world's only and largest conference on Active RFID and RTLS is being brought by IDTechEx to the USA. Happening in Dallas later this year (Dec 5-6) to to emphasise the fastest growing application, Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), used from hospitals to dockyards for locating people and assets.

Indeed one speaker from Australia will talk about monitoring and controlling forest fires with RTLS and BP will describe locating people in three dimensions in its oil refineries for safety and evacuation.

RTLS has been installed in about 100 hospitals in the USA in the last year this will be covered by Hospital Corporation of America.

The RFID market is quintupling from five billion dollars today to over $25 billion in ten years but the active RFID part is doing much better than that, rising from 15% to 26% of the RFID market, powered by RFID for sensing, long range and location.

Participants at the Active RFID and RTLS conference in Dallas will enjoy the following:

• three optional masterclasses alongside the conference and a Meet
  the Experts dinner


• free access to the unrivalled IDTechEx RFID searchable database of over 3000 RFID projects in 100 countries, 21% of them involving active RFID.


• six months' free subscription to the monthly IDTechEx RFID Analyst magazine which interprets and goes into depth rather than printing unfiltered press releases.

Moreover, to those registering before November 10, the admired IDTechEx RTLS 2007-2017 report (worth $2500) will be given for free.

Find more details about the Active RFID and RTLS conference from the IDTechEx events website.

This post is sponsored by IDTechEx.