(Frost & Sullivan: Mountain View, CA) -- Smart packaging has become an active field of research in various industries as the need to track goods through the supply chain escalates. Significant work is underway among various stakeholders to identify and commercialize smart packaging technologies, especially in the healthcare, electronics, and energy industries.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, “Impact Assessment of Smart Packaging in Healthcare, Electronics, and Energy,” finds that smart packaging for healthcare and electronics products is the most developed. Adoption of smart packaging for pharmaceuticals, in particular, will increase rapidly owing to an aging population in the western world and concerns surrounding drug counterfeiting and overdoses. Smart packaging for energy is still in a nascent stage.

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