{"title":"Aperture coupled UWB microstrip patch antenna array for mm-Wave chipless RFID tag reader","authors":"Md. Aminul Islam, N. Karmakar, A. Azad","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404514","url":null,"abstract":"A 4×4 aperture coupled UWB microstrip patch antenna array for mm-wave chipless RFID tag reader is presented. The antenna is operating over the 21-27 GHz frequency band with 20 dBi gain. A systematic approach has been followed to design the antenna array, where, firstly a single antenna element is optimized, then a feed network using multistage power divider is designed and finally, the 4×4 antenna array is developed and optimized. Simulation and measurement results of the antenna are described in details with gain, radiation pattern and impedance behavior. Finally, the assembled antenna is used for measuring mm-wave chipless tag to validate its functional accuracy. The antenna can be used in commercial mm-wave chipless RFID tag reader due to its lower profile, cost and higher gain.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130845850","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}
{"title":"RFID-grid systems: The electromagnetic way to ubiquitous computing","authors":"G. Marrocco","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404535","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous Sensing and Distributed Computing could be achieved in the next Future by a non conventional re-engineering of the Radiofrequency Identification Technology, when a multitude of tags, or more in general multi-chips systems, eventually doped with material defects will be designed as unique interconnected networks of passive devices glued by near-field electromagnetic interactions. Recently demonstrated improvements in energy scavenging, new kinds of measurable fingerorints, inter-tag communications, as well as sensitivity to changing objects, now suggest the idea of an approaching generation of “disappearing” computers, suitable to be integrated into the environment and having size, processing power and capability, fully scalable according the specific problem. This paper reviews in a unitary way the concept of RFID Grids, their amazing properties and their realistic and futuristic potentialities to achieve sensing smart-skins, self-authenticated devices, distributed wireless-access memory membranes and, in a word, “localized intelligence”.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126744260","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}
{"title":"Group-delay modulation with metamaterial-inspired coding particles for passive chipless RFID","authors":"C. Mandel, B. Kubina, M. Schüßler, R. Jakoby","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404512","url":null,"abstract":"Significant progress has happened to the research field of passive chipless RFID since it is beneficial in various applications but in terms of encodable information content it lags far behind the chip-based counterparts. Novel approaches tend to implement higher-order modulation to overcome this situation. This work presents a straight forward approach for implementing a reliable higher-order modulation scheme, thus to increase the information content. It is based on a frequency domain on-off-keying backscatter modulation scheme with extremely small resonators, where additional information, the resonator's group delay, is added to the on-states within this novel group-delay modulation scheme. Between different IDs, the group delay is varied by changing the resonator's loaded quality factor without introducing additional losses. Beside showing the working principle, prototype measurements proof the concept by realizing a two-symbol wireless identification.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129856615","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}
Md. Aminul Islam, Yixian Yap, N. Karmakar, A. Azad
{"title":"Orientation independent compact chipless RFID tag","authors":"Md. Aminul Islam, Yixian Yap, N. Karmakar, A. Azad","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404499","url":null,"abstract":"A design concept of a compact printable orientation independent chipless radio frequency identification tag is presented with near-field and far-field reading techniques. The tag consists of a circular patch loaded with multiple slot ring resonators and it has the advantage to be read from any orientation with the reader due to its symmetric structure. This tag does not have a ground plane and has higher data density and lower cost compared to the most other existing printable chipless tags. Proximity and slot reading techniques are described in details for different applications. This single-sided, compact and orientation independent tag has a great potential to be used in millions both for identification and authentication.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124475987","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}
Javier Céspedes, F. Giuppi, A. Collado, A. Georgiadis
{"title":"A retro-directive UHF RFID tag on paper substrate","authors":"Javier Céspedes, F. Giuppi, A. Collado, A. Georgiadis","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404526","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a retro-directive RFID topology is proposed, in order to improve the range of passive RFID tags. The use of a paper substrate permits to obtain low-cost, flexible and easy-to-fabricate circuits. First, the single element of the retro-directive array is proposed, consisting of a dipole with an inductive loop that guarantees the desired impedance matching between the antenna and the RFID chip; then, an array of two dipoles in a Van Atta configuration is presented. The two designs were evaluated by measuring the power received by a reader, for different incidence angles of the signal; the two-element approach showed a 7 dB improvement in the radar cross section at broadside, and less degradation of the received signal level as the angle of incidence moves from the broadside direction.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126748963","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}
{"title":"Complete software defined RFID system using GNU radio","authors":"A. Briand, B. Albert, E. Gurjão","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404531","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe a complete Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system, reader and tag, using the approach of software defined radio (SDR). We use the open source GNU Radio development toolkit to implement this SDR. The advantage of this approach is the possibility of to implement and test RFID applications using a flexible software platform. RFID readers in SDR have already been developed by others researchers, and our main contribution is the implementation of an RFID tag in accordance with EPC Gen2 RFID standard. The system is evaluated and it shown that it works with good performance, and as an example of application we implemented a cryptography protocol proposed to RFID.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128153199","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}
{"title":"Distance-bounding for RFID: Effectiveness of ‘terrorist fraud’ in the presence of bit errors","authors":"G. Hancke","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404574","url":null,"abstract":"Time-of-flight distance-bounding protocols are potentially useful in RFID and NFC environments and are designed to discourage a number of attacks that take advantage of the inherent assumption that a token and reader that manages to communicate are located in close physical proximity to each other. These protocols are dependent on time measurements made at the physical layer of the communication channel, and thus require special high bandwidth channels with low latency. Executing a distance-bound protocol on a suitable channel in a constrained environment would potentially allow for bit errors during communication. Currently, terrorist fraud is discouraged in distance-bounding protocols by ensuring that a prover collaborating with an the attacker in this fraud has to make his secret key known to the attacker. We discuss the effect of making a protocol resistant to bit errors and show that the approach to design protocols against terrorist fraud is significantly weakened by error resistance, as a prover is potentially able to keep his key secret or hinder an attacker from learning his key.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129289304","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}
{"title":"A flexible UHF RFID tag for harsh environments","authors":"J. Alarcon, R. Saba, M. Egels, P. Pannier","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404527","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and fabrication of a flexible tag for UHF RFID application in harsh environments. The proposed flexible tag has good performances when it is attached to non-metallic objects. Besides, after dipping in the water and in the chemical agents many times, the tag performances remain unmodified. Moreover, thanks to the protective layer, the tag becomes flexible and scratch resistant. Over the ETSI frequency band, the reading range is up to 3 m for objects which relative permittivity εr is less than 4.5. The overall tag size is only 64 mm × 29 mm × 4 mm.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130829504","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}
M. Huchard, Vivien Paquier, Adrien Loeillet, Vladimir Marangozov, J. Nicolai
{"title":"Indoor deployment of a wireless sensor network for inventory and localization of mobile assets","authors":"M. Huchard, Vivien Paquier, Adrien Loeillet, Vladimir Marangozov, J. Nicolai","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404548","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present experimental results of the deployment of a wireless sensor network for inventory and localization of mobile assets in an indoor office building. The system is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard at 2.4 GHz and the localization scheme is based on RSSI measurements between mobile tags and an infrastructure of reference nodes located in the ceiling of the building. We present an overview of the system, the deployment scenario in the building and we evaluate the localization performances in terms of the error distance vector mean and standard deviation. We study the localization performance as a function of the reference node density in the building. We show that the system achieves at best a positioning accuracy below 2.5m at 95% probability.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121194769","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}
M. Hamdi, F. Garet, L. Duvillaret, P. Martinez, G. Eymin-Petot-Tourtollet
{"title":"New approach for chipless and low cost identification tag in the THz frequency domain","authors":"M. Hamdi, F. Garet, L. Duvillaret, P. Martinez, G. Eymin-Petot-Tourtollet","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404523","url":null,"abstract":"In the present paper, we present a new approach for data encoding in the THz frequency domain. We proposed a structure based on a 1D periodic stack of dielectric layers whose thickness is of the order of the wavelength, i.e. in the millimeter range. Such a device exhibits well known forbidden band gap (FBG) behavior when illuminated by an electromagnetic wave. We suggest modifying the periodicity of the stack to create defect levels in the 1st FBG to encode binary information. The layers are made of low cost dielectric materials such as pure low density polyethylene (LDPE) and a mixture of LDPE with mineral charges like CaCO3 or TiO2 as respectively low (L) and high (H) refractive index material. We show that such a device can be used for binary data encoding in the frequency range from 150 to 600 GHz with encoding capacities greater than 10 bits.","PeriodicalId":232862,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124730111","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}