A Flexible 3D-Printed UHF RFID Tag for Worker-Safety Applications

2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 DOI:10.23919/SpliTech55088.2022.9854315

F. Chietera, R. Colella, Marco Pirozzi, Luciano Di Donato, Laura Tomassini, Alessandra Ferraro, L. Catarinucci

{"title":"A Flexible 3D-Printed UHF RFID Tag for Worker-Safety Applications","authors":"F. Chietera, R. Colella, Marco Pirozzi, Luciano Di Donato, Laura Tomassini, Alessandra Ferraro, L. Catarinucci","doi":"10.23919/SpliTech55088.2022.9854315","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a flexible, 3D-printed, passive UHF RFID tag, specifically designed to be applied on the safety vest of a worker to allow its identification. Usually, conventional in-lay tags, are not easily exploitable for this purpose, because they are particularly sensitive to the proximity of the human tissue, which perturbates their performance. For this reason, a flexible, thick, and low lossy substrate has been realized using a TPE filament suitable for 3D printing so to separate the antenna from the human body, while maintaining an acceptable level of comfort. The conductive parts have been realized using a conductive and adhesive nylon-based fabric from Adafruit™, which has been purposely shaped through a Graphtech ™ CE6000 cutting plotter. This tag has been conceived to be part of a smart tracking system developed within the SMARTGRID project, in collaboration with INAIL (Italian National Institute for the prevention of accidents at work).","PeriodicalId":295373,"journal":{"name":"2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SpliTech55088.2022.9854315","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This paper presents a flexible, 3D-printed, passive UHF RFID tag, specifically designed to be applied on the safety vest of a worker to allow its identification. Usually, conventional in-lay tags, are not easily exploitable for this purpose, because they are particularly sensitive to the proximity of the human tissue, which perturbates their performance. For this reason, a flexible, thick, and low lossy substrate has been realized using a TPE filament suitable for 3D printing so to separate the antenna from the human body, while maintaining an acceptable level of comfort. The conductive parts have been realized using a conductive and adhesive nylon-based fabric from Adafruit™, which has been purposely shaped through a Graphtech ™ CE6000 cutting plotter. This tag has been conceived to be part of a smart tracking system developed within the SMARTGRID project, in collaboration with INAIL (Italian National Institute for the prevention of accidents at work).

查看原文本刊更多论文

用于工人安全应用的柔性3d打印UHF RFID标签

本文介绍了一种灵活的，3d打印的，无源UHF RFID标签，专门设计用于工人的安全背心上，以便识别。通常，传统的嵌入式标签不容易用于此目的，因为它们对人体组织的接近特别敏感，这会干扰它们的性能。出于这个原因，使用适合3D打印的TPE灯丝实现了柔性，厚且低损耗的基板，以便将天线与人体分离，同时保持可接受的舒适度。导电部件使用Adafruit™的导电和粘合尼龙基织物实现，该织物通过Graphtech™CE6000切割绘图仪有意成型。这个标签被认为是SMARTGRID项目中与INAIL(意大利国家工作事故预防研究所)合作开发的智能跟踪系统的一部分。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)

自引率

0.00%

发文量