A report published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), finds that only 3 percent of European enterprises currently use RFID technology. 

The survey, entitled "ICT Usage in Enterprises 2009," queried organizations with at least 10 employees in a variety of markets. Of those using RFID, 56 percent of the enterprises indicated they utilize the technology for tracking and identifying personnel and controlling access, while 29 percent use it for supply chain and inventory tracking, 25 percent for payment and toll applications, 24 percent for product identification, 21 percent for monitoring industrial production and 15 percent for service and maintenance information management. 

In a breakdown of RFID usage by country, the nations with the highest percentage of enterprises using RFID were the Netherlands (9 percent), Finland (8 percent), and Germany, Spain, Austria and Slovakia (4 percent each), while Greece, Cyprus and Romania had the lowest (all at 1 percent). The nations with the highest usage of RFID for supply chain and inventory tracking were Spain (44 percent of RFID-using enterprises), Ireland (43 percent) and Lithuania (43 percent), while those with the highest usage of RFID for product identification were Greece (57 percent of RFID-using enterprises), France (49 percent) and Lithuania (43 percent). 

Source : EU

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