{"title":"Hybrid Time/Phase/Frequency Domain Linear Electromagnetic Encoders for Displacement Sensing and Near-Field Chipless-RFID","authors":"Amirhossein Karami-Horestani;Ferran Paredes;Ferran Martín","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3366309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3366309","url":null,"abstract":"Hybrid time/phase/frequency domain linear electromagnetic encoders are presented in this paper for the first time. The encoders consist of a linear chain of electric-LC (ELC) resonators etched in a dielectric substrate. Encoding is achieved by phase and frequency modulation simultaneously, namely, by considering different transverse positions and dimensions of the ELC resonators in the chain. The reader is a simple matched microstrip transmission line terminated with a matched load, and encoder reading proceeds by displacing the encoder over the reader line, at short distance, in the direction orthogonal to the line axis. When an ELC resonator lies on top of the line, the phase of the reflection coefficient at resonance depends on the distance to the input port and hence on the transverse position of the resonator in the chain (phase modulation). Moreover, the size of the resonator determines its resonance frequency (frequency modulation). This means that the reader line should be fed by as many harmonic signals as ELC resonator sizes considered, to identify the phase and the resonance frequency of the inclusion (ELC) on top of the line. In this paper, we consider 16 different transverse positions and 4 different sizes of the ELC resonators, which are read sequentially, in a time-division multiplexing scheme. Thus, 6 bits per encoder position (or row) in the chain are achieved. These encoders, with a per-unit-length density of bits of DPL = 6 bit/cm, can be applied to the implementation of synchronous near-field chipless-RFID systems with high data capacity, as well as long-range displacement sensors. In the latter case, the number of bits per encoder row can be doubled (i.e., 12 bits) by considering two chains and two readers, allowing for the discrimination of 212 (= 4096) absolute positions.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"134-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880765","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":"UHF RFID Wristbands: A Long-Range, Durable, Flexible, and Low-Cost Tag Antenna Design","authors":"Sergio López-Soriano;Joan Melià-Seguí;Josep Parrón Granados","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3365796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3365796","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution is focused on the performance evaluation of a long-range patch-type antenna for ultra-high frequency (UHF) radiofrequency identification (RFID) wristband tags. The antenna design was presented in the IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), held on September 4-6, 2023, Aveiro, Portugal, under the title “A durable and flexible, low-cost tag antenna design for UHF RFID wearable applications”. First, the theoretical and practical evaluation of the wristband tag antenna is conducted in four different scenarios. Next, the studied solution is benchmarked against a selection of the current commercial solutions. The proposed antenna design is mounted on a flexible and low-cost Teflon (PTFE) substrate, and it consists of a disconnected metal-substrate-metal layered structure. To produce a light and comfortable wearable device, the wristband design constraints limit the thickness to 1 mm and the width to 3 cm. The design is intended to be used in human identification and tracking applications while providing enough durability to endure for a prolonged period without significant antenna de-tuning. The proposed wristband is designed to operate in the FCC band (902-928 MHz) and it can reach distances over 3–5 meters, depending on the microchip sensitivity. The results of the experiments show that the performance of the proposed wristband design is comparable to current commercial solutions, while offering a different set of features. A discussion on the comparison between the current solutions and the proposed wristband antenna is provided in the text.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"125-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10436413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880809","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}
Spyros Megalou;Konstantinos Tsiakoumis;Aristidis Raptopoulos Chatzistefanou;Stavroula Siachalou;Traianos V. Yioultsis;Antonis G. Dimitriou
{"title":"Lane Keeping and Tracking Through RFID Technology","authors":"Spyros Megalou;Konstantinos Tsiakoumis;Aristidis Raptopoulos Chatzistefanou;Stavroula Siachalou;Traianos V. Yioultsis;Antonis G. Dimitriou","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3363643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3363643","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using RFID technology for navigation and guidance within lanes. The lanes consist of RFID tags, placed on the floor. The tags represent unique spatial identifiers. By processing phase-measurements from such tags, a user, carrying an RFID reader, can be \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${i}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000) kept within the lane, ii) guided to the desired destination and iii) tracked in real time. Two properties are exploited for lane-keeping: the measured Rate-Of-Change (ROC) of the phase measurements per tag and the number of readings per tag within given time-periods. Thanks to these properties, an indicator function estimates the pose of the agent within the lane and gives auditory and visual feedback when one approaches the boundaries of the lane. Localization and tracking is accomplished separately by feeding phase-ROC measurements in a particle filter. Robustness of the proposed method is verified by measurements presented herein.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"114-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880749","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":"Circuit Design, Realization, and Test of a Bluetooth Low Energy Wireless Sensor With On-Board Computation for Remote Healthcare Monitoring","authors":"Petar Šolic;Riccardo Colella;Giuseppe Grassi;Toni Perković;Carlo Giacomo Leo;Ana Čulić;Vladimir Pleština;Saverio Sabina;Luca Catarinucci","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3363074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3363074","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) framework has transformed sensor data utilization, ushering in a new era of sensors integrated into various aspects of modern environment. A pressing concern in the realm of wearable technology is efficient power management, encompassing low power consumption and reducing battery recharging times. This study introduces an electronic device equipped with a Bluetooth 5.1 Low Energy (BLE) module, capable of detecting, collecting, aggregating and transmitting the Root Sum of Squares Method (RSS) of acceleration readings at consistent time intervals. This multi-frequency wireless controller functions at both sub-1 and 2.4 GHz bandwidths, endorsing the Bluetooth® 5.1 low energy standard and diverse wireless modalities via a Dynamic MultiProtocol Manager (DMM) interface. For demonstration purposes, the BMI160 is has been programmed to internally manage acceleration analyses across three axes, reducing data transmission, and minimizing connection times. This device, integrated with other physiological parameter monitoring systems of an individual/patient, can help correlate any variation in these parameters with the amount of motion. The integration of additional sensors can refine the precision of physiological metric evaluation, broadening the potential applications of such systems in sectors like healthcare and well-being.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"105-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880712","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":"IEEE Council on RFID","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3339074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2023.3339074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10416936","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139654673","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":"IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2023.3339072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2023.3339072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10416937","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139654672","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}
V. R. Vijaykumar;S. Raja Sekar;R. Jothin;V. C. Diniesh;S. Elango;S. Ramakrishnan
{"title":"Novel Light Weight Hardware Authentication Protocol for Resource Constrained IoT Based Devices","authors":"V. R. Vijaykumar;S. Raja Sekar;R. Jothin;V. C. Diniesh;S. Elango;S. Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3359705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3359705","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, a great deal of physical equipment has been linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) by use of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Moreover, security is the primary concern for RFID-enabled IoT devices. In order to prevent security risks, mutual authentication is a vital step. The majority of authentication protocols are resource-intensive and computationally expensive to implement. Hence, a low power and lightweight hardware implementable security protocol is well suited for RFID enabled resource constrained IoT devices. This paper designed a novel light weight mutual authentication protocol using multifunction digital logic based encoder architecture for RFID based IoT systems. The proposed multifunction logic circuit generates different logical outputs for every random selection of control inputs, which improves security drastically. The protocol is narrated in Verilog Hardware descriptive language and realized in Altera DE2 Cyclone II (EP2C35F672C6) FPGA board and synthesized in 180 nm and 90 nm technology ASIC platform. Experimental results are compared with the state-of-the-art protocols, which demonstrate that the proposed protocol is much more suitable for lightweight applications. In addition, the security of the protocol is also formally verified using the standard BAN logic algorithm. Finally, the proposed protocol is real-time implemented and verified in Jennic JN5168 Test Bed using Contiki OS for resource-constrained IoT applications.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"31-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139916567","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":"Experimental Evaluation and Upper-Bounds of Cross-Sensitivity in Stacked RFID Sensors","authors":"Francesca Maria Chiara Nanni;Gaetano Marrocco","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358189","url":null,"abstract":"The dense distribution of wireless sensors based on Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, in the food market or drug cold chains, raises issues regarding the effects of mutual electromagnetic coupling on sensing. In the case of stacked items, in fact, inter-antenna coupling can cause disturbance to sensor measurements, thus affecting the specificity and reliability of the collected data. This paper experimentally investigates the effects of coupling for some configurations of antenna size and alignments by exploiting capacitive sensing based on the emerging auto-tuning integrated circuit (IC) architectures. The results revealed that electromagnetic coupling typically induces cross-sensitivity and instability so that the variation of any sensor’s output will also be indirectly captured by adjacent devices. However, this disturbing effect vanishes after a threshold decoupling distance of the order of 4 mm for a small-footprint loop (15mm\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$ times 15$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000mm), and 15 mm in the case of a card-like footprint (C-dipole, 54mm\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$ times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000mm). Moreover, experiments revealed that the above distances can be halved by resorting to a 180° rotation of the adjacent items.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"98-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880750","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":"Design and Features of Unibo-BP, the Unibo Implementation of the DTN Bundle Protocol","authors":"Carlo Caini;Lorenzo Persampieri","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3358012","url":null,"abstract":"Challenged networks, including space networks, require the Delay-/ Disruption-Tolerant Networking architecture (DTN), which is based on the introduction of a new layer and a new associate protocol, the Bundle Protocol (BP). The recent release of RFC 9171, which standardizes version 7 (BPv7), has led the University of Bologna to develop its own implementation, Unibo-BP. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with a comprehensive description of its design principles and innovative features. Unibo-BP is written in C+, is fully compliant with RFC 9171, is research-driven, and space-oriented, thus matching the main research interests of the authors. Unibo-BP is not a stand-alone application, but the core of a wide ecosystem that includes DTNsuite applications, LTP and TCPCLv3 convergence layers, and CGR/SABR routing. Unibo-BP interfaces to these additional components are thoroughly analyzed in the paper, as they present a number of advanced features. Unibo-BP supports one or multiple nodes on the same machine and a few template scripts to facilitate the user are described here. The paper also provides a section devoted to interoperability tests and first research applications An appendix, with an overview of Unibo-BP commands, completes this work. Unibo-BP is released as Open Source Software under GPLv3 license.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"458-467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10413494","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187380","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}
Zhiyang Chen;Hongwei Jiang;Jiapeng You;Xin Wang;Poly Z. H. Sun
{"title":"RFID Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Smart Factories Based on Blockchain","authors":"Zhiyang Chen;Hongwei Jiang;Jiapeng You;Xin Wang;Poly Z. H. Sun","doi":"10.1109/JRFID.2024.3356194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2024.3356194","url":null,"abstract":"With the deepening exploration of Industry 4.0, smart factories are gradually replacing traditional factories with rapid momentum. In smart factories, a large number of digitally networked devices are deployed in a less-populated or even unmanned environment. Data security and fast access have become particularly important due to the automation and intelligence of production. As the environment of smart factories becomes increasingly complex, meeting the requirements for rapid authentication has become increasingly difficult for traditional authentication systems. In this study, a lightweight blockchain-based radio-frequency identification (RFID) identity authentication mechanism is proposed for smart factories represented by the medical device manufacturing industry by integrating blockchain and RFID technologies. Through bitwise operations, cyclic shift operation, and hash arithmetic, the proposed mechanism cannot only guarantee security between the RFID reader and the electronic tag but also requires less communication and storage to complete authentication. Thus, this mechanism is suitable for the environment of medical device manufacturing factories with a high-load operation of equipment. It helps further research on the data security of smart factories.","PeriodicalId":73291,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of radio frequency identification","volume":"8 ","pages":"19-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139732021","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}