Opportunities in Pharmaceutical RFID and Smart Packaging

RFID in healthcare is growing rapidly to become a $2.1 billion global business in 2016. Smart packaging for healthcare has additional value, for example in patient compliance recording blister packs that electronically record when each pill is taken - or more strictly when it is removed from the pack. Aardex has a different version where the plastic bottle of pills is continuously weighed by a load cell in the base. Thus recording when a pill is removed. These pack-