Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358189
Francesca Maria Chiara Nanni;Gaetano Marrocco
The dense distribution of wireless sensors based on Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, in the food market or drug cold chains, raises issues regarding the effects of mutual electromagnetic coupling on sensing. In the case of stacked items, in fact, inter-antenna coupling can cause disturbance to sensor measurements, thus affecting the specificity and reliability of the collected data. This paper experimentally investigates the effects of coupling for some configurations of antenna size and alignments by exploiting capacitive sensing based on the emerging auto-tuning integrated circuit (IC) architectures. The results revealed that electromagnetic coupling typically induces cross-sensitivity and instability so that the variation of any sensor’s output will also be indirectly captured by adjacent devices. However, this disturbing effect vanishes after a threshold decoupling distance of the order of 4 mm for a small-footprint loop (15mm $ times 15$ mm), and 15 mm in the case of a card-like footprint (C-dipole, 54mm $ times 16$ mm). Moreover, experiments revealed that the above distances can be halved by resorting to a 180° rotation of the adjacent items.
{"title":"Experimental Evaluation and Upper-Bounds of Cross-Sensitivity in Stacked RFID Sensors","authors":"Francesca Maria Chiara Nanni;Gaetano Marrocco","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358189","url":null,"abstract":"The dense distribution of wireless sensors based on Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, in the food market or drug cold chains, raises issues regarding the effects of mutual electromagnetic coupling on sensing. In the case of stacked items, in fact, inter-antenna coupling can cause disturbance to sensor measurements, thus affecting the specificity and reliability of the collected data. This paper experimentally investigates the effects of coupling for some configurations of antenna size and alignments by exploiting capacitive sensing based on the emerging auto-tuning integrated circuit (IC) architectures. The results revealed that electromagnetic coupling typically induces cross-sensitivity and instability so that the variation of any sensor’s output will also be indirectly captured by adjacent devices. However, this disturbing effect vanishes after a threshold decoupling distance of the order of 4 mm for a small-footprint loop (15mm\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$ times 15$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000mm), and 15 mm in the case of a card-like footprint (C-dipole, 54mm\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$ times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000mm). Moreover, experiments revealed that the above distances can be halved by resorting to a 180° rotation of the adjacent items.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358012
Carlo Caini;Lorenzo Persampieri
Challenged networks, including space networks, require the Delay-/ Disruption-Tolerant Networking architecture (DTN), which is based on the introduction of a new layer and a new associate protocol, the Bundle Protocol (BP). The recent release of RFC 9171, which standardizes version 7 (BPv7), has led the University of Bologna to develop its own implementation, Unibo-BP. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with a comprehensive description of its design principles and innovative features. Unibo-BP is written in C+, is fully compliant with RFC 9171, is research-driven, and space-oriented, thus matching the main research interests of the authors. Unibo-BP is not a stand-alone application, but the core of a wide ecosystem that includes DTNsuite applications, LTP and TCPCLv3 convergence layers, and CGR/SABR routing. Unibo-BP interfaces to these additional components are thoroughly analyzed in the paper, as they present a number of advanced features. Unibo-BP supports one or multiple nodes on the same machine and a few template scripts to facilitate the user are described here. The paper also provides a section devoted to interoperability tests and first research applications An appendix, with an overview of Unibo-BP commands, completes this work. Unibo-BP is released as Open Source Software under GPLv3 license.
{"title":"Design and Features of Unibo-BP, the Unibo Implementation of the DTN Bundle Protocol","authors":"Carlo Caini;Lorenzo Persampieri","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358012","url":null,"abstract":"Challenged networks, including space networks, require the Delay-/ Disruption-Tolerant Networking architecture (DTN), which is based on the introduction of a new layer and a new associate protocol, the Bundle Protocol (BP). The recent release of RFC 9171, which standardizes version 7 (BPv7), has led the University of Bologna to develop its own implementation, Unibo-BP. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with a comprehensive description of its design principles and innovative features. Unibo-BP is written in C+, is fully compliant with RFC 9171, is research-driven, and space-oriented, thus matching the main research interests of the authors. Unibo-BP is not a stand-alone application, but the core of a wide ecosystem that includes DTNsuite applications, LTP and TCPCLv3 convergence layers, and CGR/SABR routing. Unibo-BP interfaces to these additional components are thoroughly analyzed in the paper, as they present a number of advanced features. Unibo-BP supports one or multiple nodes on the same machine and a few template scripts to facilitate the user are described here. The paper also provides a section devoted to interoperability tests and first research applications An appendix, with an overview of Unibo-BP commands, completes this work. Unibo-BP is released as Open Source Software under GPLv3 license.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10413494","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3356194
Zhiyang Chen;Hongwei Jiang;Jiapeng You;Xin Wang;Poly Z. H. Sun
With the deepening exploration of Industry 4.0, smart factories are gradually replacing traditional factories with rapid momentum. In smart factories, a large number of digitally networked devices are deployed in a less-populated or even unmanned environment. Data security and fast access have become particularly important due to the automation and intelligence of production. As the environment of smart factories becomes increasingly complex, meeting the requirements for rapid authentication has become increasingly difficult for traditional authentication systems. In this study, a lightweight blockchain-based radio-frequency identification (RFID) identity authentication mechanism is proposed for smart factories represented by the medical device manufacturing industry by integrating blockchain and RFID technologies. Through bitwise operations, cyclic shift operation, and hash arithmetic, the proposed mechanism cannot only guarantee security between the RFID reader and the electronic tag but also requires less communication and storage to complete authentication. Thus, this mechanism is suitable for the environment of medical device manufacturing factories with a high-load operation of equipment. It helps further research on the data security of smart factories.
随着工业 4.0 探索的不断深入，智能工厂正以迅猛的势头逐步取代传统工厂。在智能工厂中，大量数字化联网设备被部署在人迹罕至甚至无人的环境中。由于生产的自动化和智能化，数据安全和快速访问变得尤为重要。随着智能工厂的环境变得越来越复杂，传统的身份验证系统越来越难以满足快速身份验证的要求。本研究通过整合区块链和射频识别（RFID）技术，为以医疗器械制造业为代表的智能工厂提出了一种基于区块链的轻量级射频识别（RFID）身份认证机制。通过比特运算、循环移位运算和哈希运算，所提出的机制不仅能保证 RFID 阅读器和电子标签之间的安全性，而且只需较少的通信和存储就能完成身份验证。因此，该机制适用于医疗器械制造工厂设备高负荷运行的环境。它有助于进一步研究智能工厂的数据安全问题。
{"title":"RFID Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Smart Factories Based on Blockchain","authors":"Zhiyang Chen;Hongwei Jiang;Jiapeng You;Xin Wang;Poly Z. H. Sun","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3356194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3356194","url":null,"abstract":"With the deepening exploration of Industry 4.0, smart factories are gradually replacing traditional factories with rapid momentum. In smart factories, a large number of digitally networked devices are deployed in a less-populated or even unmanned environment. Data security and fast access have become particularly important due to the automation and intelligence of production. As the environment of smart factories becomes increasingly complex, meeting the requirements for rapid authentication has become increasingly difficult for traditional authentication systems. In this study, a lightweight blockchain-based radio-frequency identification (RFID) identity authentication mechanism is proposed for smart factories represented by the medical device manufacturing industry by integrating blockchain and RFID technologies. Through bitwise operations, cyclic shift operation, and hash arithmetic, the proposed mechanism cannot only guarantee security between the RFID reader and the electronic tag but also requires less communication and storage to complete authentication. Thus, this mechanism is suitable for the environment of medical device manufacturing factories with a high-load operation of equipment. It helps further research on the data security of smart factories.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139732021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355214
Ruhua Zhao;Junjie Yang;Xue Li;Hong Mo
The inaccuracy of modeling information and external disturbance bring great challenges to the control of robot manipulators. In the paper, an adaptive control strategy of robot manipulators with model uncertainty is presented by synthesizing variable universe fuzzy control (VUFC) and the sliding-mode control (SMC). The strong robustness of SMC overcomes the interference of uncertainty to the system,but brings the problem of chattering. In order to effectively alleviate chattering which is easy to occur in traditional SMC, the VUFC technology is adopted to improve the switching control and designs a dynamic variable switching control portion, which suppress the chattering significantly. Then, a suitable adaptive law is given, and the stability of the system is analyzed by utilizing Lyapunov theorem, which ensure that the system error can converge to near zero. Finally, the comparison results show that this control strategy possesses a better performance than SMC and the fuzzy SMC, which can continuously and stably achieve tracking control.
{"title":"Adaptive Variable Universe Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for Robot Manipulators With Model Uncertainty","authors":"Ruhua Zhao;Junjie Yang;Xue Li;Hong Mo","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355214","url":null,"abstract":"The inaccuracy of modeling information and external disturbance bring great challenges to the control of robot manipulators. In the paper, an adaptive control strategy of robot manipulators with model uncertainty is presented by synthesizing variable universe fuzzy control (VUFC) and the sliding-mode control (SMC). The strong robustness of SMC overcomes the interference of uncertainty to the system,but brings the problem of chattering. In order to effectively alleviate chattering which is easy to occur in traditional SMC, the VUFC technology is adopted to improve the switching control and designs a dynamic variable switching control portion, which suppress the chattering significantly. Then, a suitable adaptive law is given, and the stability of the system is analyzed by utilizing Lyapunov theorem, which ensure that the system error can converge to near zero. Finally, the comparison results show that this control strategy possesses a better performance than SMC and the fuzzy SMC, which can continuously and stably achieve tracking control.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355298
Yi Li;Conghui Hao;Yupei Xie;Shuangshuang Han
In the era of rapid development of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), ensuring the reliability and security of vehicle-to-vehicle communication has become a top priority. This paper comprehensively analyzes the performance of various signal detection algorithms in different scenarios. To intelligently choose different signal detection algorithms in the context of VANETs, the study covers diverse scenarios such as urban environments, rural areas, highways, parking lots, and mountainous regions, aiming to capture subtle variations in the performance of different signal detection algorithms across these scenarios. The paper employs strict performance metrics, such as bit error rate and algorithmic complexity, to quantify and compare the performance of different signal detection algorithms. The focus is on the role of signal detection algorithms in achieving parallel intelligence in VANETs, including the simultaneous processing of signals from multiple vehicles to enhance overall network efficiency and reliability. This research holds significance by providing insights into the strengths and limitations of signal detection algorithms in VANETs, guiding their development for efficient and accurate performance, thereby contributing to academic understanding and informing decision-making in the automotive industry and intelligent transportation systems.
在车载 ad hoc 网络（VANET）飞速发展的时代，确保车对车通信的可靠性和安全性已成为当务之急。本文全面分析了各种信号检测算法在不同场景下的性能。为了在 VANET 中智能地选择不同的信号检测算法，研究涵盖了城市环境、农村地区、高速公路、停车场和山区等不同场景，旨在捕捉不同信号检测算法在这些场景中性能的细微差别。论文采用严格的性能指标，如误码率和算法复杂度，来量化和比较不同信号检测算法的性能。重点是信号检测算法在实现 VANET 并行智能方面的作用，包括同时处理来自多辆车的信号，以提高整体网络效率和可靠性。这项研究的重要意义在于深入探讨了 VANET 中信号检测算法的优势和局限性，为开发高效、准确的信号检测算法提供了指导，从而有助于汽车行业和智能交通系统的学术理解和决策参考。
{"title":"Computational Experiments and Comparative Analysis of Signal Detection Algorithms in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"Yi Li;Conghui Hao;Yupei Xie;Shuangshuang Han","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3355298","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of rapid development of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), ensuring the reliability and security of vehicle-to-vehicle communication has become a top priority. This paper comprehensively analyzes the performance of various signal detection algorithms in different scenarios. To intelligently choose different signal detection algorithms in the context of VANETs, the study covers diverse scenarios such as urban environments, rural areas, highways, parking lots, and mountainous regions, aiming to capture subtle variations in the performance of different signal detection algorithms across these scenarios. The paper employs strict performance metrics, such as bit error rate and algorithmic complexity, to quantify and compare the performance of different signal detection algorithms. The focus is on the role of signal detection algorithms in achieving parallel intelligence in VANETs, including the simultaneous processing of signals from multiple vehicles to enhance overall network efficiency and reliability. This research holds significance by providing insights into the strengths and limitations of signal detection algorithms in VANETs, guiding their development for efficient and accurate performance, thereby contributing to academic understanding and informing decision-making in the automotive industry and intelligent transportation systems.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140924702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3354515
Amit Birwal;Kamlesh Patel;Sanjeev Singh
The paper presents a new design for a mobile 2.45-GHz passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader, featuring a compact, broadband, and circularly polarized antenna. The antenna proposed consists of two stacked square patches separated by an air gap for a wide-band impedance bandwidth. The antenna is printed on a double-sided 1.6 mm FR4 substrate with an overall dimension of $65times 65times 11.27$ mm3. By introducing and optimizing a pair of symmetrical ring slots in both the square patches, a good Axial-Ratio Bandwidth (ARBW) and symmetrical broadside radiation patterns are achieved. The reader antenna shows a measured $S_{11}$ bandwidth (S11<−10 dB) from (2.3–2.7 GHz) and ARBW (< 3 dB) from (2.39-2.48 GHz). The peak gain of the proposed antenna is 6.2 dBi and is obtained at the center frequency of 2.45 GHz. Measurements of the proposed antenna are discussed to obtain the read range and field of view, which confirms its suitability for RFID Reader Applications and other Internet of Things (IoT) based applications.
{"title":"Circular Slot-Based Microstrip Circularly Polarized Antenna for 2.45-GHz RFID Reader Applications","authors":"Amit Birwal;Kamlesh Patel;Sanjeev Singh","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3354515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3354515","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a new design for a mobile 2.45-GHz passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader, featuring a compact, broadband, and circularly polarized antenna. The antenna proposed consists of two stacked square patches separated by an air gap for a wide-band impedance bandwidth. The antenna is printed on a double-sided 1.6 mm FR4 substrate with an overall dimension of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$65times 65times 11.27$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 mm3. By introducing and optimizing a pair of symmetrical ring slots in both the square patches, a good Axial-Ratio Bandwidth (ARBW) and symmetrical broadside radiation patterns are achieved. The reader antenna shows a measured \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$S_{11}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 bandwidth (S11<−10 dB) from (2.3–2.7 GHz) and ARBW (< 3 dB) from (2.39-2.48 GHz). The peak gain of the proposed antenna is 6.2 dBi and is obtained at the center frequency of 2.45 GHz. Measurements of the proposed antenna are discussed to obtain the read range and field of view, which confirms its suitability for RFID Reader Applications and other Internet of Things (IoT) based applications.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139676318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3351678
Nadeem Rather;John L. Buckley;Brendan O’Flynn;Melusine Pigeon;Roy B. V. B. Simorangkir
This paper introduces an innovative strategy for the development of sensing-ready concentric rings-based chipless radio frequency identification (CRFID) tags. Our approach is marked by the novel use of exponentially increasing spacing, a significant departure from the conventional uniform spacing method. This innovative design results in an impressive 88.2% improvement in tag data encoding capacity compared to traditional designs. Importantly, our design framework not only advances the current state of CRFID tag technology but also methodically lays the foundation for future integration of high-resolution sensing capabilities. This is achieved by strategically utilizing the innermost ring as a prospective sensing site, complemented by the implementation of nulls for data encoding achieved through the addition of an extra ring at the tag’s outermost edge. Notably, all these features represent advancements that have not been demonstrated in previously published concentric rings-based CRFID tags. To empirically validate our methodology, we have developed and tested 18-bit example tags optimized for operation within the ultrawideband (UWB) spectrum, covering a range from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. The radar cross-section (RCS) response of these tags exhibits well-distributed resonances, culminating in a high encoding capacity of 17.65 bits/ $lambda ^{2}$ /GHz. Preliminary results using capacitors connected to the innermost ring underscore the future sensing potential of our tags, setting the stage for more advanced sensing implementations in subsequent research.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2023.3349193
Xue Li;Zhenqi Fang;Ruhua Zhao;Hong Mo
Automatic segmentation of MRI images is crucial for diagnosis and evaluation of brain tumors. However, significant variability in brain tumor shape, uneven spatial distribution, and intricate boundaries bring challenges, which lead information loss and decreased accuracy during segmentation. To solve these problems, an improved Res-UNet network employing attention-guided and scale-aware strategies is proposed. First, a module that employs attention mechanisms and features fusion is incorporated to catch relatively important contextual information. Secondly, a module designed to retrieve hidden contextual information and dynamically aggregate multi-scale features is integrated into the bottom layer of the network, which facilitates feature acquisition and enhancement at multiple scales. Finally, the results show that the method achieves a Dice similarity coefficient of 92.24% in whole tumor region, which is an improvement of about 4% compared to the pre-improved Res-UNet network.
{"title":"Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation Method Based on Improved Res-UNet","authors":"Xue Li;Zhenqi Fang;Ruhua Zhao;Hong Mo","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3349193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2023.3349193","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic segmentation of MRI images is crucial for diagnosis and evaluation of brain tumors. However, significant variability in brain tumor shape, uneven spatial distribution, and intricate boundaries bring challenges, which lead information loss and decreased accuracy during segmentation. To solve these problems, an improved Res-UNet network employing attention-guided and scale-aware strategies is proposed. First, a module that employs attention mechanisms and features fusion is incorporated to catch relatively important contextual information. Secondly, a module designed to retrieve hidden contextual information and dynamically aggregate multi-scale features is integrated into the bottom layer of the network, which facilitates feature acquisition and enhancement at multiple scales. Finally, the results show that the method achieves a Dice similarity coefficient of 92.24% in whole tumor region, which is an improvement of about 4% compared to the pre-improved Res-UNet network.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This work proposes a low-cost battery-less near-field communication (NFC) tag for gas sensing based on a resistive gas sensor. A proof-of-concept tag is designed using commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) components. The energy required for the tag operation comes from the magnetic field generated by the reader, and all the electronics are powered by connecting them to the energy-harvesting output of the NFC integrated circuit. Read ranges up to 25 mm have been obtained with commercial NFC-enabled smartphones. The reading of resistance variations due to the presence of gas is performed using a low-consumption timer. The oscillation frequency of this timer depends on the resistance of the gas sensor and is measured by a microcontroller integrated into the tag. This method does not require any gain adjustment for operation, allowing the use of sensors with different resistance ranges. Low-cost room temperature sensors have been integrated for NO2 detection in both ppb and ppm ranges using laser-induced graphene (LIG). A detection limit of up to 36 ppb has been achieved. The smartphone transmits the data to a cloud database, allowing users to analyze and post-process the information.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2022.3231053
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