J. Mitsugi, Yuki Sato, T. Yokoishi, T. Tashiro, Tomohiko Eda, Keiji Sato, Y. Kishi
{"title":"Regional purchase orders dissemination and shipments aggregation of agricultural products with interworking EPC network and EDI system","authors":"J. Mitsugi, Yuki Sato, T. Yokoishi, T. Tashiro, Tomohiko Eda, Keiji Sato, Y. Kishi","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694528","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an Electronic Product Code (EPC) based supply chain visibility system framework which interworks with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system which manages its orders and inventory with non-EPC stock keeping units (SKU) and their quantity. The feature of the framework is the cascadable packing/shipping management, which enables regional dissemination of purchase order and shipment aggregation. The feature is enabled by an EPC event interpreter which demands minimal modification to EDI systems. We implemented the framework in an agricultural products commerce system in which the inventory is distributed in multiple farmers and collectors. We confirmed the functionality and performance of the framework through one-months pilot commerce operation with over 150 transactions. We found 54% of the orders involve multiple products and 27% of orders exceeds the shipment free threshold. It was revealed that the regional order dissemination and shipment aggregation function is attractive both to farmers and consumers because we can provide various assortment of regional agricultural products in one commerce site. In addition, we can reduce the shipment cost and shipment labors of farmers by regionally aggregating shipments.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063529","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}
Jordy Huiting, Hubert Flisijn, A. Kokkeler, G. Smit
{"title":"Exploiting phase measurements of EPC Gen2 RFID tags","authors":"Jordy Huiting, Hubert Flisijn, A. Kokkeler, G. Smit","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694503","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 2d localization system for UHF RFID tags. By measuring the phase between the transmitted continuous wave and received backscatter from the tag at different frequencies, it is possible to estimate the distance between the reader and tag. By determining distance estimates to three antennas it is possible to determine a location of a tag with the help of trilateration. The location of the antennas has to be known and any error in distance measurement influences the location estimate. Mainly to overcome the expected impact of the environment on the distance estimate, we opt for the use of reference tags and the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm to derive a location. An experiment is done and results are compared with an KNN algorithm based on received signal strength. Furthermore some experiments are done to verify the use of phase measurements for the detection of stationary tags in a portal application.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130553386","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 novel distributed algorithm for redundant reader elimination in RFID networks","authors":"Meng Ma, Ping Wang, C. Chu","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694501","url":null,"abstract":"Redundant reader is a typical problem which consumes additional power and algorithm overhead for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems development. Therefore, eliminating redundant readers is of great importance to prolong the lifetime of RFID systems. In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for redundant reader elimination based on neighboring coverage density (NCD). We also elaborate an optimization scheme leveraging partially movement detection (MD) in RFID systems, called NCDMD. The NCDMD algorithm achieves significant optimization in tag-write operation over NCD. Our experiments show that NCD and NCDMD algorithm are effective and of low overheads as compared to other distributed algorithms. In the performance simulation, we analyze the multi-phase scheme principle and its effect. NCD and NCDMD algorithm can further improve the performance of multi-phase approach in redundant reader elimination.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"52 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120843881","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}
A. Al-Hashedi, M. Arshad, A. S. Baharudin, H. Mohamed
{"title":"RFID applications in Hajj management system","authors":"A. Al-Hashedi, M. Arshad, A. S. Baharudin, H. Mohamed","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694546","url":null,"abstract":"Millions of Muslims go to Mecca every year to perform their Hajj (Pilgrimage). Managing of Hajj activities is a very complex task on Saudi Arabian authorities and Hajj organizers due to the large number of pilgrims, the specific geographical area for the movement of pilgrims and the short period of Hajj. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be used in various applications during Hajj season to provide good solutions for many problems and contribute in overcoming many difficulties. This paper describes the potential applications of this new emerging technology in new field like Hajj and then proposes architecture for RFID-based Hajj management systems and communication network for data sharing.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126810694","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}
N. Zainuddin, Z. Zakaria, M. Aziz, M. N. Husain, M. A. Mutalib
{"title":"Investigation of meander slots to microstrip patch patch antenna","authors":"N. Zainuddin, Z. Zakaria, M. Aziz, M. N. Husain, M. A. Mutalib","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694524","url":null,"abstract":"Microstrip slotted meander line antenna with a diverse number of meander slots is presented for 2.4 GHz of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The proposed antenna comprises a rectangular microstrip patch element embedded with several numbers of meander slots in many positions. The parametric study is performed to investigate the characteristic of these microstrip patch antennas with different numbers of meandered slots. Many designs of slotted meander line antenna are produced and they are analyzed based on the number of slotted meander line used. Antenna with 7 slotted meander lines has the most size reduction of approximately 23% of the original size. This study is an early investigation in designing the RF energy harvesting to support green technology and sustainable development particularly for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) as well as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130721810","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}
A. Alhawari, A. Ismail, A. Jalal, R. Abdullah, M. Rasid
{"title":"U-shaped inductively coupled feed RFID tag antenna for gain enhancement","authors":"A. Alhawari, A. Ismail, A. Jalal, R. Abdullah, M. Rasid","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694498","url":null,"abstract":"An inductively coupled feed novel technique is proposed to enhance the performance of RFID tag antennas. The applied feeding concept comprises of two opposing symmetrical U-shaped structures to feed a radiating body. It is a simple alternative to effectively match between the antenna impedance with the chip impedance from the flexible augmentation of equivalent inductance to the radiating body. The proposed feeding method offers better expectation of performance among antenna size, impedance, and gain at the size of 50 × 70 × 1.6 mm3. The peak gain of the proposed tag antenna is 2.5 dBi at its operating frequency, which is higher among conventional tag antennas. Measured results indicate that this tag antenna has a good impedance matching characteristic at 904-937 MHz (power reflection coefficient better than -3 dB). The comparison between the simulation and measurement results verified the proposed technique capability to improve overall performance of the tag antennas.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490893","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 based improving supply chain traceability","authors":"Yaser Miaji, M. Mohamed, N. Daud","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694543","url":null,"abstract":"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology which shares a similar concept with bar code. With RFID, the electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the RF portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is used to transmit signals. Supply chain management is aimed to keep going long-term performance of individual companies and the overall supply chain by maximizing customer satisfaction with minimum costs. One of the major issues in the supply chain management is product loss or shrinkage. In order to overcome this problem, this system which uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology will be able to RFID track and identify where losses are occurring and enable effective traceability. RFID bring a new dimension to supply chain management by providing a more efficient way of being able to identify and track items at the various stages throughout the supply chain. This system has been developed and tested to prove that RFID technology can be used to improve traceability in supply chain at low cost. Due to its simplicity in interface program and database management system using Visual Basic and MS Excel or MS Access the system can be more affordable and implemented even by small and medium scale industries.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131330775","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}
Hassan Chizari, Mohd Rashid Embi, Yahya Mohd. Yatim, H. Abdullah
{"title":"Optimum number and optimal location of readers for RFID power tags in buildings inhabitant control applications","authors":"Hassan Chizari, Mohd Rashid Embi, Yahya Mohd. Yatim, H. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694530","url":null,"abstract":"Active RFID devices are gaining popularity in usage in many applications such as building evacuation, disaster monitoring, cargo tracking and so on. Equipped with batter cells and ability to send and receive signals distinguished active RFIDs from passive ones and convert them to smart network devices. Power tag is one of a kind in active RFID devices where the tag sends the information when it is in the range of a trigger antenna. RFID devices have long been used for inhabitant monitoring such as monitoring the number of people in the rooms of a building and power tag could play a great role here. However, the problem of finding the best location for trigger antenna to read power tag information is a challenging issue. Moreover, reducing the number of trigger antenna not only saves the cost of installation, it reduces the radio interference between various readers. In this paper, using the simulated annealing, an algorithm was developed to find the minimum number of trigger antennas to have full coverage on all exit passages.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128168667","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":"An active wearable dual-band antenna for GPS and Iridium satellite phone deployed in a rescue worker garment","authors":"A. Dierck, H. Rogier, F. Declercq","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694502","url":null,"abstract":"An active wearable dual-band circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna for Global Positioning System and Iridium satellite phone applications is presented. It is constructed using flexible foam and fabric substrates, combined with copper-on-polyimide film conductors. A low-noise amplifier chip is integrated directly underneath the antenna patch. The antenna's performance is examined under bending and on-body conditions. The active antenna gain is higher than 25 dBi and the 3dB axial ratio bandwidth exceeds 183 MHz in free-space conditions. The antenna performance is robust to bending and on-body placement.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132309991","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}
Z. Zakaria, M. A. Mutalib, M. M. Isa, N. Zainuddin
{"title":"Transformation of generalized chebyshev lowpass filter prototype to Suspended Stripline Structure highpass filter for wideband communication systems","authors":"Z. Zakaria, M. A. Mutalib, M. M. Isa, N. Zainuddin","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694529","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the transformation of generalized Chebyshev lowpass filter prototype to highpass filter using Suspended Stripline Structure (SSS) technology. The study involves circuit analysis to determine generalized Chebyshev responses with a transmission zero at finite frequency. The transformation of the highpass filter from the lowpass filter prototype provides a cutoff frequency of 3.1 GHz with a return loss better than -20 dB. The design is simulated on a Roger Duroid RO4350 with a dielectric constant, εr of 3.48 and a thickness of 0.168 mm. The simulation performance results show promising results that could be further examined during the experimental works. This class of generalized Chebyshev highpass filter with finite transmission zero would be useful in any RF/ microwave communication systems particularly in wideband applications where the reduction of overall physical volume and weight as well as cost very important, while maintaining its excellent performance.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130445182","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}