C&T RF Antennas Inc analyzes 9 major areas and 28 new trends in the IoT market. Key areas discussed include RFID, new retail, wireless communication, high precision positioning, smart cities, sensors, big data and cloud computing, smart cards, and smart homes. The document outlines recent developments and growth opportunities in each area, such as the expanding applications of RFID, popularity of electronic price tags, emergence of 5G, increasing use of sensors for environmental monitoring, and focus on whole-home automation solutions in smart homes.

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comprehensively dialysis of the IoT market
Written By Calio Huang
Social change is changing with each passing day. At present, intelligence has become the theme
of this era. As an inclusive industry, the Internet of Things can have a far-reaching impact on the
whole society. Whether it is industrial production or daily life, the penetration of the Internet of
Things is comprehensive. Of course, the business opportunities contained therein are even more
limited.
Through C&T RF Antennas Inc we will learn about the latest trends in the IoT industry:
1. RFID
The comprehensive outbreak of application;
The growth of power, aviation, footwear, and smart manufacturing is eye-catching;
Deep integration of product innovation and application requirements
With the continuous improvement of RFID technical specifications and application standards, the
scope of RFID application continues to expand, from traditional access control, attendance,
home-school communication, railway, warehousing, inventory, inspection management to
intelligent manufacturing, shoes and clothing, electricity, aviation, New areas such as archives
and electric bicycle anti-theft management. The application of RFID is exploding and it has
become one of the most common IoT technology products.
Especially in the following emerging areas, the application of RFID is more eye-catching:
In the power sector, under the help of the State Grid Corporation's “Pan-in-the-Power Internet of
Things” program, the RFID application in the power sector has been continuously upgraded and
upgraded, improving the level of power asset management, inspection, and personnel
management.
In the aviation field, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) at its 75th annual meeting,
the member airlines voted unanimously to support the deployment of radio frequency

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identification (RFID) technology for baggage tracking. With the landing of standards, global
airports and airlines are actively deploying RFID baggage tracking system. According to the annual
number of baggage carried by global airlines, the number of bags is about 4.3 billion. If the
application is opened smoothly, the application level of the RFID system will be greatly boosted.
In the field of intelligent manufacturing, with the increase of domestic labor costs, the demand
for terminal data collection by automation, intelligence, and flexible manufacturing is increasing.
RFID is continually catering to the different needs of industrial manufacturing enterprises,
constantly innovating hardware and software to meet market needs and continuing. work hard.
In the field of shoes and clothing applications, after years of verification of large and small
projects at home and abroad, RFID's performance is being recognized by more and more shoe
and apparel companies and more and more landing projects continue to maintain the largest
application area of RFID tag usage. "Champion title."
In terms of product innovation, RFID product innovation is deeply integrated with the specific
needs of vertical applications, such as liquid labels for new retail applications, led positioning tags
for warehouse inventory, and dual-mode readers for real-time inventory needs. Various smart
cabinets for power tool management and file management, high-temperature resistant labels for
extreme environmental applications, high-pressure resistant labels, and ultra-small labels.
2. New retail:
In the field of smart inventory, the bar code scheme is gradually turning to the RFID solution;
Human-computer interaction screens are receiving increasing attention;
Electronic price tag products are becoming more and more popular online.
The business mid-stage system is gradually favored by giant companies;
The unmanned vending machine has bright prospects
In the new retail field, although the traditional bar code scheme has a low cost, it's reading
efficiency is relatively low, and the RFID solution can store commodity information in batches,
which greatly improves the product turnover efficiency and is increasingly applied. many.
In the new retail, especially the unmanned retail scene, the human-computer interactive screen
provides consumers with an information interaction portal, which enhances the consumer
experience and is gradually valued by new retail players.
Traditional paper price tags need to be managed manually, and electronic price tags can be used
to remotely update real-time commodity prices, which is very popular with new retailers.
Omni-channel business in China, providing online and offline integrated solutions for large and
medium-sized retail brand enterprises, creating an independent data system for enterprises
across business systems and building a data application ecosystem. Therefore, it has received the
favor of giant companies such as Tencent and Ali.
The new store operation management tool realizes the intelligent upgrade of the physical store in
the “people”, “goods” and “field”, and provides better service for the physical store to transform
the new retail so that customers can enjoy better shopping experience.
Unmanned vending machines solve the dilemma of convenience stores. Utilizing unmanned sales
organizations to build unmanned convenience stores, in addition to reducing storefronts and
self-checkouts, the high operating costs faced by traditional convenience stores are reduced.
Unattended machines can also help unattended convenience stores solve other problems, such

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as settlement issues, shopping experience issues, theft costs, and scale issues. Today, there are
only 200,000 unmanned vending machines in China. It is conservatively estimated that it's market
stock will reach 10 million units, at least 50 times of growth space, huge room for growth, and
the prospect of the entire unmanned vending machine industry is bright.
3. Wireless communication:
5G has come;
The LPWAN application began to break out;
The integrated guide module products are gradually heating up
5G has been the focus of attention of the whole people. Recently, with the issuance of four 5G
licenses by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the 5G commercial road has also
officially opened. The change brought about by 5G is not only the improvement of network
speed but also its significance. It is to solve the low latency, high bandwidth of the Internet of
Things and the connection problem of massive nodes.
LPWAN technology represented by NB-IoT and Lora is still the focus of the IoT industry because
LPWAN technology has incomparable advantages in terms of low cost, low power consumption
and depth of coverage compared with other communication technologies. At present, both
NB-IoT and Lora are developing rapidly, and related applications are rapidly increasing.
The integration of communication capabilities and navigation capabilities is gradually being
valued by module manufacturers because for users, communication transmission capability and
location capability are often the two most common requirements, and integration can reduce
costs and reduce products. Development cycle and other purposes. At present, domestic
mainstream module manufacturers are paying attention to the market of integrated products.
4. High precision positioning:
Bluetooth 5.1 is ready to go;
UWB is exploding rapidly;
Multi-technology integration is valued
As a widely used technology, Bluetooth is constantly evolving and iterating to meet the needs of
the market. In the latest Bluetooth 5.1 version, it's AOA/AOD positioning algorithm has improved
the positioning accuracy of Bluetooth to the centimeter level. The increase in accuracy means
that it has a broader market, so location services will become the most anticipated application
market for Bluetooth technology.
As a long-established centimeter-level wireless positioning technology, UWB has excellent
positioning performance, but its most criticized is that the price is too expensive. However, with
the development in recent years, the UWB positioning technology industry has gradually
matured, and hundreds of related companies have emerged in China, and the cost of UWB has
gradually decreased, which has led to explosive growth in enterprise applications.
In addition, the integration of various positioning technologies has gradually been valued by
manufacturers. In practical applications, because of the needs of users and the differences in
application environments, multiple positioning technologies are often required to be combined.
For example, some need outdoor. Positioning, some need indoor positioning, some positioning
accuracy is very high, and some positioning requires low power consumption. In such a scenario,
a multi-technology convergence solution will be more cost effective than a single technology

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solution.
5. Smart City:
The wisdom light pole will become an important entrance;
A smart community is a link between home and city;
The role of AI technology is increasingly critical
The concept of smart light poles is flourishing. As an infrastructure construction, the amount of
light poles laid in the city is very large. If it only provides the function of street lighting, it is
obviously unable to fully exert its value. "One-shot multi-purpose" has begun to be promoted,
including video cameras, LED screens, weather sensors, and even IoT gateways can be integrated
into a light pole, the wisdom light pole has the potential to become an important entrance.
The community is the basic unit of the city. It is the link between the family and the whole city. It
includes daily life such as water, electricity, gas, parking, fitness, and leisure. It is mainly carried
out in the community. Therefore, the creation of a smart community is of great significance to
the construction of the entire smart city.
Smart cities cover a wide range, and the information collected is very large. Therefore, it is
necessary to fully utilize AI technology to process and apply data to maintain the efficiency of the
entire smart city.
6. Sensor:
The demand for IoT sensors has increased dramatically;
Environmental condition monitoring is the application focus;
The smart city market will stimulate the outbreak of sensors;
Low-power small size sensors are more popular
The broad prospects of the Internet of Things market and the development of sensors
complement each other. Especially in the key areas of sensor networks such as intelligent
networked vehicles, smart medical care, smart cities, and smart agriculture, combined with the
rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, there is bound to be a revolutionary
breakthrough.
In the first year of 5G commercial use, 5G can help achieve real intelligence in the fields of
smartphones, smart cars, smart buildings, etc., and a large number of connections will promote
the increase of sensor usage.
Benefiting from the expansion of applications in the Internet of Things in recent years, the
demand for sensors is growing rapidly, and in the application market, more and more companies
are integrating sensors with wireless communication technologies, such as technologies such as
NB-IoT and Lora. The integration provides customers with a more convenient solution.
Environmental monitoring is one of the most important directions for sensor applications,
including temperature and humidity, indoor and outdoor air monitoring, water level monitoring,
water quality monitoring, industrial and industrial urban production environment monitoring, etc.
This information is used in a wide range of specific applications and has a very broad market.
Therefore, it is valued by sensor manufacturers.
Small size and low power consumption are very important indicators in all battery-powered
environments, and sensors are one of the must-have components of IoT products. Many
products have multiple sensors, so small size and low power consumption is available. Great

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meaning.
Another huge market is smart cities. Some institutions predict that the market size of China's
smart cities will exceed 6 trillion yuan in 2017 and reach 18.7 trillion yuan by 2021. According to
experts, domestic sensor companies have already cooperated with public facilities to implement
related applications such as smart manhole cover, smart pipe network, remote meter reading
and intelligent street lamps. In addition to the intelligence and materialization of traditional
industries, the Internet giants are competing in different ways, such as smart homes, and are also
promoting the combination of sensors and the Internet of Things.
7. Big data and cloud computing:
The edge is calculated into a new blue sea;
The visualization platform is popular;
Data security is getting more and more attention
With the deepening of IoT applications, the concept of edge computing has gradually been
valued because the number of connections in the Internet of Things is very large, which means
that they collect a lot of data, but among them, they can have business value. The data is only a
small part. Therefore, if all the data is uploaded to the cloud, it will bring cost increase and waste
of resources, so the edge calculation will make sense. "No edge, no platform", edge computing
products have also become a new blue ocean.
The visualization of the platform allows users to have more direct interaction with cloud products,
and users can more easily achieve their business goals based on cloud computing capabilities.
Therefore, the visualization platform has gradually gained popularity in the field of cloud
computing.
The security of data has long been ignored by people. After long-term education in the market,
people pay more attention to data security, especially with the increasing number of IoT devices.
If data security is not guaranteed, it will result in The loss will also become bigger.
8. Smart card:
The application turned to 2B and 2G directions
Under the impact of mobile payment, the application scope of the smart card industry has been
greatly compressed, but in enterprise-level applications such as social security cards,
communities, factories, and some government agencies, smart cards are more stable and reliable
than mobile payments. Still enjoying the favor.
9. Smart Home:
Intelligent door lock system;
Whole house intelligence is more popular;
Safety products are just needed
Smart door locks have ignited a fire in the smart home industry in the last two years. Whether it
is a rental place such as a hotel or a long-term rental apartment or a consumer-grade place such
as a personal home, smart door locks can be seen everywhere. However, smart door locks are
self-contained compared to other smart home products because their industrial chain is in line
with traditional mechanical locks.
Whole house intelligence is now more favored by the market because smart homes cover a wide
variety of products. If each product is produced by a different manufacturer, there is no linkage

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between smart home items. The whole house intelligence can make it easier for consumers to
enjoy the convenience of smart home products. At present, smart home manufacturers mostly
cooperate with real estate developers. Under the promotion of real estate developers, the
popularity of whole house intelligence is slowly increasing.
Safety is a new demand for consumers. Consumers are also more willing to pay for smart home
products due to safety factors, including smart smoke alarms, gas alarms, video cameras, and
other products are popular.