{"title":"Miniaturized and Battery-Free Temperature and Humidity Sensor for Smart Pharmaceutical Packaging","authors":"Adina B. Barba;Sara Amendola;Carolina Miozzi;Donato Masi;Garry Scrivens;Karen Gibson;Joel Basford;Cecilia Occhiuzzi;Gaetano Marrocco","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3312811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2023.3312811","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature and humidity levels inside pharmaceutical packaging can significantly affect the shelf life of the enclosed medications. The RFID technology in the UHF band is promising to address this issue as it permits to wirelessly monitor the inner environment at the item level. This work presents the design and experimental characterization of a miniaturized battery-less RFID sensor, able to simultaneously measure temperature and humidity. The proposed sensor includes a helical antenna and is compatible with the insertion into a capsule, similar to common drugs. A first prototype of the miniaturized sensor was realized and tested in terms of both communication and sensing performance. Despite variable boundary conditions, a reading distance greater than 40 cm was demonstrated. A realistic readability analysis under uncontrolled conditions estimated a probability of 65% to read the sensor from more than 20 cm. Furthermore, the humidity sensor performance was extensively characterized in a climate chamber through several tests, resulting in an accuracy of ±5% in the RH range 40-80% that is compliant with the requirements of several pharma applications.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67744198","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}
Sanaz Haddadian;J. Christoph Scheytt;Gerd vom Bögel;Thorben Grenter
{"title":"A Sub-Threshold Microwave RFID Tag Chip, Compatible With RFID MIMO Reader Technology","authors":"Sanaz Haddadian;J. Christoph Scheytt;Gerd vom Bögel;Thorben Grenter","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3308332","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3308332","url":null,"abstract":"We present a fully integrated radio frequency identifications transponder chip operating at 5.8 GHz, which is compatible with the class-1 generation-2 of the Electronic Product Code protocol (EPC-C1 G2). The tag chip including the analog front-end and the digital baseband processor, are designed in the sub-threshold regime (0.5 V) with a total supply current of less than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$50~mu text{A}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. As a power scavenging unit, a single-stage differential-drive rectifier structure is designed and fabricated with standard threshold voltage (SVT) MOS elements in a commercial 65-nm CMOS process, to provide 0.8 V of rectified voltage. Measurements performed on the fabricated single-stage structure show a maximum power conversion efficiency of 69.6% for a 22 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$text{k}Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load and a sensitivity of −12.5 dBm, which corresponds to more than 1 m of reading range. The power conversion efficiency at this range is about 64%.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7433271/10004382/10233935.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285523","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}
{"title":"UHF RFID Tags Zoning Using Harmonic Signals and Machine Learning","authors":"Dahmane Allane;Christophe Loussert;Yvan Duroc;Smail Tedjini","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3306025","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3306025","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an effective method for improving the detection of UHF RFID (Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification) tags in a restricted area. The so-called zoning technique is a recurring problem in practical RFID applications: it consists in detecting within an environment with multiple tags that are exclusively present in the zone of interest. The proposed method is based on the concept of Nth harmonic, a new paradigm that involves utilizing the harmonic signals backscattered by tags. Such a method is coupled with a machine learning technique. Experimental results show the importance of harmonic features for better tags zoning. Using a four-layer CNN classifier, we can achieve 99% prediction accuracy by leaving a keep-out distance of 0.5 m between two zones, using the harmonic RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) sum feature, and 94.7% by using the best feature at \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$f_{0}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000, which is the RSSI max, achieving around 5 times less prediction errors. Furthermore, combining the harmonic and fundamental features leverage the prediction accuracy to 99.8%.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285492","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":"Two-Stage Harmonics Rejection in FDMA Backscatter Communication System Using FFT Filterbank","authors":"Jin Mitsugi;Osamu Tokumasu;Haruki Sakabe","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3305286","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3305286","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a harmonics rejection method for the sensor-to-interrogator link of frequency division multiple access (FDMA) backscatter communication system exploiting an FFT filterbank. It is well known that backscatter signals produce undesired outband emissions and harmonics because of the absence of a pulse shaping filter. Harmonics, produced by introducing subcarrier coding, are particularly problematic because they interfere with particular frequency channels. The proposed method features the generation of harmonics replicas from the baseband signal in an allocated channel produced by a FFT filterbank. The generation of a harmonics replica from the baseband signal demands a delicate handling of the carrier and the subcarrier phases. This paper presents this problem and proposes a two-stage harmonics replica generation exploiting the statistical independence among the interfering and interfered baseband signals. The proposal was implemented in a software defined interrogator, and was evaluated with a wired experiment with various carrier-to-interference ratios and two real-world wireless propagation experiments using prototype battery-free backscatter sensors. These evaluations revealed that the proposed harmonic rejection method could deliver about 6 dB of processing gain.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285482","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":"Theoretical Considerations on the Impact of Nearby Tags on the Wireless Power Transfer From the Reader to the Target Tag in Passive UHF RFID","authors":"Demba Ba;Ibra Dioum;Yvan Duroc","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3303962","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3303962","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, and in particular the passive UHF (ultra-high frequencies) standard, is developing strongly with the emergence of cognitive sensor networks and especially the Internet-of-Things. A significant indicator of this evolution is that tags are increasingly equipped with new capabilities: in addition to the identification functionality, there are, for example, those of sensor or actuator. In this context, the energy requirement at the tag level, known as augmented tag, is clearly increasing. Consequently, on the one hand, reading distances can be limited (the energy received is shared between the different components of the augmented tag) and on the other hand, to overcome the problem, semi-passive solutions (on-board battery to power the active electronic circuits) are proposed at the expense of the decisive advantage of the passive nature of the tags. It is therefore necessary to find alternative solutions to optimize the energy transfer between the reader and the tags. The concept proposed here is to target a particular tag, the one being queried, and to exploit the tags in its vicinity as reflectors in order to converge a maximum of power transmitted by the reader on the “target” tag. The paper uses an adapted mathematical formalism to evaluate the total power that can be received by a target tag as a function of the tags in its neighborhood: the impact of their relative position and of the load impedance of the reflector tags is analyzed and illustrated by simulations.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285439","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}
Andrea Motroni;Glauco Cecchi;Andrea Ria;Paolo Nepa
{"title":"Passive UHF-RFID Technology: Integrated Communication, Localization and Sensing","authors":"Andrea Motroni;Glauco Cecchi;Andrea Ria;Paolo Nepa","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3301093","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3301093","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an environmental mapping system based on passive Internet of Things (IoT) nodes implemented through Ultra High-Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) devices with sensing capabilities. An RFID sensor tag provides environmental information as temperature, humidity, lighting, etc. aside its unique identifier. The paper focuses on creating a detailed map of indoor facilities like buildings, warehouses, or plants by combining location information with sensing data. To achieve accurate positioning with passive RFID devices, the paper employs techniques based on the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) method. This method utilizes the phase of the backscattering signal and the relative motion between the reading antenna and the targeted devices, which can be implemented by a mobile robot. The paper includes a demonstrator that showcases the aforementioned system. Passive RFID sensor tags capable of monitoring temperature are deployed in an indoor scenario, whereas a moving antenna implements the SAR method. The results demonstrate localization errors within a few centimeters. The paper also presents criteria for selecting trajectories that may improve localization accuracy. Furthermore, the paper evaluates the actual capabilities of commercial passive RFID sensors.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7433271/10004382/10208139.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285363","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}
Ali Alhaj Abbas;Yixiong Zhao;Jan C. Balzer;Klaus Solbach;Thomas Kaiser
{"title":"Photonic-Crystal-Resonator-Based Corner Reflector With Angle-of-Arrival Sensing","authors":"Ali Alhaj Abbas;Yixiong Zhao;Jan C. Balzer;Klaus Solbach;Thomas Kaiser","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3302009","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3302009","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a Photonic Crystal (PhC) resonator based corner reflector for sensing the Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) of the incident wave from an interrogator. The sensor is constructed of joining a flat metal plate with a one-dimensional PhC resonator at an angle of 90°. The PhC resonator is designed by inserting a defect layer between two quarter-wave Bragg mirrors in order to create a deep notch in the backscattering. While the PhC resonator provides unique spectral signatures in the “specular direction” related to AoA (i.e., by shifting the notch position), the corner configuration allows the back-scattering of these signatures to the direction of the interrogator. As a proof of concept, EM simulation and measurement are performed in W-band on a 40-mm squared PhC resonator perpendicularly joined with a same size metal plate. Based on signatures, a resolution of less than 6° can be achieved in the angular range −35° to 35°. Due to the corner configuration that allows a high Radar Cross Section (RCS), the proposed sensor shows the potential of sensing the AoA at long reading ranges.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285373","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}
Prince Mengue;Laurine Meistersheim;Sami Hage-Ali;Cécile Floer;Sébastien Petit-Watelot;Daniel Lacour;Michel Hehn;Omar Elmazria
{"title":"Magnetic SAW RFID Sensor Based on Love Wave for Detection of Magnetic Field and Temperature","authors":"Prince Mengue;Laurine Meistersheim;Sami Hage-Ali;Cécile Floer;Sébastien Petit-Watelot;Daniel Lacour;Michel Hehn;Omar Elmazria","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3299704","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3299704","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic field measurement including a temperature compensation is essential for a magnetic field sensor. This study investigates a magnetic surface acoustic wave (MSAW) sensor in a reflective delay line configuration with two acoustic propagation paths with and without magnetic field sensitive layer. The delay in path with sensitive layer leads to magnetic field detection and the one without enables temperature measurement and thus compensation for the first path. The developed sensor is based on a ZnO/LiNbO3 Y-cut (X-direction) layered structure as Love wave platform. Love wave as a shear wave being more favorable for magnetic detection. Co-Fe-B is considered as sensitive layer to detect magnetic field changes and is deposited on the top of ZnO, but only on one of the two paths. We combined an original configuration of connected IDTs with a high electromechanical coupling coefficient (K2) mode to improve the signal amplitude. The achieved sensor exhibits a high temperature and magnetic field sensitivity of −63 ppm/°C and −781 ppm/mT, respectively. The temperature compensation method for magnetic field measurement is demonstrated using a differential measurement by subtracting the delay times obtained for the two paths with and without the sensitive layer. Finally, the sensor exhibited good repeatability at various temperatures. Moreover, the device developed allows in addition to the multisensor functionality, the radio frequency identification (RFID) which is necessary for the deployment of sensor networks.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44934878","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":"Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on the 10th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2022)","authors":"Ali Abedi;Philip Fergusson","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3292462","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3292462","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (JRFID) hosts a Special Issue collecting journal papers that were presented at the \u0000<italic>IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) 2022 Conference</i>\u0000, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on October 12-14, 2022. The conference featured keynotes, invited talks and panels, workshops, and original presentations and papers. From 47 total submissions, 19 were accepted and presented, and only 10 articles accepted to the IEEE Journal for RFID.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7433271/10004382/10189804.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285232","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}
{"title":"Latest News on RFID Systems Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on SpliTech 2022 and IEEE RFID-TA 2022 Conferences","authors":"G. Andrea Casula;Luca Catarinucci;Alice Buffi","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3290848","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3290848","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (JRFID) has the pleasure to host a joint Special Issue collecting extended versions of papers coming from two international conferences held in 2022. The first is the \u0000<italic>IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technology and Applications (RFID-TA)</i>\u0000, held in Cagliari, Italy, on September 12-14, 2022. The second is the \u0000<italic>International Symposium on Advances in RFID Technology and Electromagnetics for IoT</i>\u0000 organized within the \u0000<italic>International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies</i>\u0000 (\u0000<italic>SpliTech</i>\u0000), hosted in Split and Bol, Croatia, on July 5-8, 2022. SpliTech was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID).","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7433271/10004382/10188659.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62285670","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}