# Proud Tek Research — primary RFID and NFC industry studies

URL: https://proudtek.com/research/
Source URL: https://proudtek.com/research/
Generated: 2026-03-16T01:42:30.697Z
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Publisher: Proud Tek Co., Limited
Author: Proud Tek Co., Limited
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Image Alt: Composite of Proud Tek research artifacts: methodology brief on tablet, survey question bank, anonymized respondent dataset, industry adoption chart, downloadable PDF report

## Description
Proud Tek Research is the primary-data arm of Proud Tek's editorial program: longitudinal, vendor-neutral studies of how RFID and NFC adoption is...

## FAQ
- Q: Who funds Proud Tek Research?
  A: Proud Tek funds the program in-house. We do not accept sponsored research from RFID hardware peers, integrators, or end-user clients, and we do not run paid placements inside published findings. The cost (under USD 30,000 per flagship study, dominated by third-party panel fees and statistician time) is treated as marketing R&D. Funding transparency is published in the methodology appendix of every report.
- Q: How is Proud Tek Research different from analyst firms like IDC, Gartner or Forrester?
  A: Three differences. (1) Open data. Our anonymized respondent-level data is released under CC-BY-4.0 after a 90-day exclusivity window; analyst firms typically license summary-level access for USD 5,000–50,000 per report. (2) Vendor-neutral. We do not include Proud Tek-favorable questions or rank vendors; analyst Magic Quadrant–style outputs typically include vendor positioning. (3) Industry-specific depth. We sample 10 respondents per vertical across 20 verticals; analyst surveys are usually 5–10× larger but only resolved to 2–4 super-segments.
- Q: Can I see the questionnaire before I take it?
  A: Yes. The full instrument is posted at /research/2026-rfid-industry-adoption-index/instrument/ before recruitment opens and remains public throughout fieldwork. Respondents see the same instrument we publish. This is part of the pre-registration discipline — if the public instrument and the actual fielded instrument differ, the study is invalid.
- Q: How can I participate as a respondent?
  A: Two ways. (1) If we have not yet reached you and you fit the buyer / integrator / operator persona for your industry, register interest at /research/participate/ — we recruit on a rolling basis and prioritize matching to under-sampled industries. (2) If you receive a direct outreach from peter-zhang@proudtek.com or via a recognized panel partner (Centiment, Prolific, third-party trade-association directory), reply with your industry — the link in the message routes you to the right industry-specific survey path.
- Q: How is data quality enforced?
  A: Five layers. (a) Recruitment screener verifies industry, role and decision authority before the substantive questionnaire opens. (b) Attention-check questions placed mid-instrument; failed responses are excluded. (c) Straight-line response detection on Likert batteries. (d) Completion-time outlier removal (top 2% and bottom 2%). (e) IP-address + email-domain deduplication. Final analytic sample sizes published per study are the post-exclusion counts; pre-exclusion counts and exclusion rates are documented in the methodology appendix.

## Machine Routes
- JSON: https://proudtek.com/machine/research.json
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