{"title":"Microcontroller based a nondestructive infrared spectroscopy instrument for assessment of mango quality using bio-optic techniques","authors":"Basem Abu Izneid, Tareq Al-kharazi","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694508","url":null,"abstract":"A portable infrared spectroscopy instrument based microcontroller has been designed and with help of developed algorithm for mango fruit quality assessment and characterization. This paper presents the design and development of a fruit quality grading instrument using Bio-optic sensor. The experiments were conducted to obtain the results from the developed instrument and the observed results were correlated according to the measured output of the Bio-optic sensor. In the experiment, a large number of mango fruit samples have been monitored for period time of six days to study the correlation between fruit ripening process versus time period. The obtained result measured by the developed instrument was in the range of 3.5 V to 4.2 V for unripe mango fruit and the ripest one. The rate of quality increase was calculated as an average of 6.7 mV per day.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125770495","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":"Key drivers of RFID adoption in Malaysian retail industry, a theoretical model","authors":"Soleyman Paydar, I. R. Endut","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694548","url":null,"abstract":"Information is the key element of supply chain management. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been used by organizations in the supply chain because of its unique capability of real-time access to information as well as identifying, tracking, and back tracing objects. However, it has yet to see high rates of adoption in Malaysia's retail supply chain. Thus, effort should be made to identify determinants affecting RFID adoption in the supply chain industry. The purpose of this study was to develop and to empirically test a theoretical model of RFID adoption in the context of retail chains in Malaysia; using the Technology- Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and diffusion of innovation (DOI) model. A questionnaire survey was conducted to study the adoption of RFID by 77 firms in Malaysia's retail chains. The survey data then was transferred into statistical software (SPSS 18.0) for further analysis. The findings indicate that the technology, organization and environment characteristics have significant influence on the adoption intention for RFID technology. The results of the study and related implications add to existing knowledge and ideas on the determinants of RFID adoption in the retail industry, with a specific focus on Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"29 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":"122058407","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}
Nibras Abdullah, Mahmoud Baklizi, S. Ramadass, O. A. Al-wesabi
{"title":"Multi-constrained routing using genetic algorithm","authors":"Nibras Abdullah, Mahmoud Baklizi, S. Ramadass, O. A. Al-wesabi","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694537","url":null,"abstract":"Different multimedia conferencing and telephony systems are available worldwide. The development of a method that can process more than one quality of service routing parameter and can meet communication system requirements is essential to support these systems within high-speed networks. This paper briefly presents a significant method that solves network routing protocol problems, such as finding the shortest and the most feasible path based on the genetic algorithm.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"62 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":"121007689","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}
Kuilin Chen, Dongyan Zhao, Haifeng Zhang, Yubo Wang, Liang Liu
{"title":"13.56 MHz passive electron tag for smart card application with high-security","authors":"Kuilin Chen, Dongyan Zhao, Haifeng Zhang, Yubo Wang, Liang Liu","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694514","url":null,"abstract":"Information security is the core issue need to be resolved in RF communication. In accordance with ISO/IEC 14443-A protocol, this paper accomplished the design and implementation of 13.56 MHz passive electron tag for smart card with high-security. Using the HHNEC 0.13 um process, the gate count of RF digital circuit is about 7833 and the smart card chip area is 8.08 mm2. Encrypting the communication and memory data through hardware with the feature of anti-side-channel attacks, the encryption modules DES/3DES, could ensure the card security of information transaction. On the basis of high-security, the results show the chip achieved a good balance among the speed, area and power consumption, which could be well applicable to public transport, e-commerce, financial field and so on.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"31 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":"134153784","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. Jalal, A. Ismail, A. Alhawari, M. Rasid, N. Noordin, M. Mahdi
{"title":"Metal mount fractal RFID tag antenna with complementary split ring resonator","authors":"A. Jalal, A. Ismail, A. Alhawari, M. Rasid, N. Noordin, M. Mahdi","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694510","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes miniature radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna designed to operate on metallic objects, in the UHF frequency range (915 MHz). The antenna structure is comprised of two parts: Part 1 with two layers; a top layer of two square fractal patches electrically connected to the ground plane (bottom layer) through vias while Part 2 is an unconnected inter-layer consisting of two square complementary split ring resonators to allow for capacitive reactance increase. Consequently, the antenna resonant frequency is lowered, which theoretically allows shrinking RFID tag antenna into smaller size. The antenna was simulated and measured to verify its conjugate matching with chip impedance. The results of experimental tests showed that the proposed RFID tag offers a maximum read range of 0.48 m when placed on a metallic object. The tag's overall size is 36.7×18.1×3.2 mm3. Both simulation and measurement results are provided to validate the design.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"37 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":"130536285","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 Compact Slotted Microstrip Patch Antenna for RFID applications","authors":"M. H. Mokhtar, M. Rahim, N. Murad, H. Majid","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694536","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a compact slotted microstrip patch antenna for RFID applications. The antenna is designed to operate at 2.40-2.45 GHz using the Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software. The proposed antenna is designed and fabricated using Flame Retardant 4, FR4 substrate with the design specification dielectric constant (εr) of 4.5 and thicknesses (d) of 1.6mm. In order to minimize the size of the microstrip patch antenna, the proposed antenna contains additional slotted structure attached in the reflector of FR-4 substrate. The new Compact Slotted Microstrip Patch Antenna (CSMPA) reduce by 50% from its conventional size for 2.40 GHz microstrip antenna operated frequency antenna. The antenna produces gains of 2.5 dB at 2.415 GHz with the overall size of antenna about 35 × 26 × 1.67 mm. Simulation and optimization of the presented CSMPA produced a good results which suitable for RFID applications.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"2010 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":"114665913","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 system optimization for item-level pharmaceutical serialization","authors":"Magalie Laniel, Ismail Uysal","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694507","url":null,"abstract":"A pharmaceutical company facilitated a program to serialize some of their products through the use of RFID tags at the unit-level. However, the system implemented on one of their packaging lines was unreliable. We have developed a laboratory test system that physically simulates the packaging line in order to find a working solution without any interruption to ongoing production. In this paper we discuss the methodical and analytical optimization steps we followed to find a combination of RFID hardware and software parameters which led to acceptable and repeatable performance (>99.5% write/lock/read success rate for a high speed packaging lane) within company requirements and physical limitations. The solution involved modifications of the tag placement, antenna type, reader output power level and low level reader protocol for different Miller modulations compared to the original implementation. Although the solution was first found and tested in a laboratory setting, it was later validated on the actual packaging line in the factory.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"18 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":"125453827","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 low voltage VGA for RFID receivers","authors":"Md. Idzdihar Bin Idris, M. Reaz, M. Bhuiyan","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694544","url":null,"abstract":"RFID is a worldwide attractive technology for reliable wireless communication system. Automatic gain control system of such devices is very important which is performed by Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA). In this paper, a class AB VGA, consisting of a linear transconductor amplifier and a linear transimpedance amplifier, is designed and simulated in CEDEC (software for design and simulation of ICs) 0.18-μm CMOS process for low power and high speed RFID receivers. The simulation result show that, the proposed VGA has a wide bandwidth of 100 MHz and dissipates power less than 125 uW at 1 V supply voltage. From the results it is also apparent that the circuit is capable of working with high linearity and wide bandwidth. Good frequency response (Gain) and the wide bandwidth of this class AB VGA makes it suitable for low power RFID receiver transceivers.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"14 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":"115107283","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. Aziz, M. M. Shukor, M. K. Suaidi, B. Ahmad, F. M. Johar, H. Nornikman, F. A. Azmin, S. N. Salleh, M. F. Malek
{"title":"Printed omnidirectional antenna for RFID applications","authors":"M. Aziz, M. M. Shukor, M. K. Suaidi, B. Ahmad, F. M. Johar, H. Nornikman, F. A. Azmin, S. N. Salleh, M. F. Malek","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694525","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed the dual band printed omnidirectional antenna for RFID applications at 2.45GHz. This antenna is made up from the double U-stubs and meander collinear structure. The antenna is based on the microstrip type of antenna. The return loss of the proposed antenna at 2.45GHz is -10.61dB and the bandwidth is 122MHz. The gain that has been achieved for this proposed antenna is 3.798dB.","PeriodicalId":253369,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA)","volume":"11 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":"125930932","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 experimental methodology for evaluation of multi-hop medium access control protocols of wireless sensor networks","authors":"Mohammad Ali Sarvghadi, T. Wan","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2013.6694497","url":null,"abstract":"Since wireless sensor nodes are battery powered, the emphasis was on reducing the energy consumption of the sensor nodes. However, with the increase in real-time traffic requirements in wireless sensor nodes, network performance metrics are increasingly important. Nonetheless, most existing network performance studies were done via simulation, with few experimental studies performed on testbeds using ad hoc methodologies. This paper proposes a structured experimental methodology for evaluating the delay, throughput, and packet loss performance of wireless sensor networks, while addressing practical issues related to the use of an experimental approach. A global clock synchronization technique, in addition to insertion of timestamps in the network packets was proposed for more accurate measurement of the network delay. Several different physical topologies such as single cluster, chain, and cluster tree topologies were defined as standard test topologies. The EMLMAC protocol was used to demonstrate the viability of the proposed structured experimental methodology. Based on the proposed experimental approach, the measured throughput for EMLMAC for the single cluster two-hop and three-hop chain topologies differed by 1.02%, 6.75% and 13.91% respectively from the simulation results. This indicates that an experimental approach is essential for verifying the actual performance of a wireless sensor network.","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":"129955483","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}