Detection of Chipless RFID Tag Using a Single Antenna RFID Reader System

The detection of different types of chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags using a single antenna reader is presented in this paper. The performance is evaluated through experiment and measured using Chipless RFID reader system with single antenna and compared with results from vector network analyser. It explains the operation of the reader and how the pic-microcontroller is programmed with the detection algorithm. Two types of tags have been tested, a printed tag which is flexible and will be in high demand for commercialisation and a copper tag which has more durability. The post processing of the measured results to obtain the tag ID is performed using MATLAB. Adaptive Wavelet based detection algorithm is used for the decoding of the tag ID. After the tag ID has been decoded it is sent to a display screen on the DSP unit and/ or via RS-232 to the host computer application. There is no need of human interaction for the reader to interrogate the tag as the user is able to save the tag data received by the reader in a specified database/server.