Development of a Low Cost Printable Chipless RFID Humidity Sensor

Amin, Emran Md; Bhuiyan, Shakil; Karmakar, Nemai Chandra; Winther‐Jensen, Bjorn

doi:10.1109/jsen.2013.2278560

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“…The actual reading range depends on many factors including the frequency of operation, the power of the reader, and the possible interference from metal objects. At the time of this writing, UHF RFID systems have a reasonable access range while at the same time supporting tags that cost less than $0.10 [30], but the industry is working to reduce it to 5¢ in the next few years [11,96].…”

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Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

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The food intelligent packaging (IP) technologies are reviewed with a particular emphasis on the possibilities of radiofrequency identification (RFID) and surface acoustic wave (SAW) technologies for developing the food IP concept. Passive RFID and SAW technologies are the more promising ones to achieve a food IP that can wirelessly communicate the food quality to the different agents of the food chain. However, some drawbacks and cost of these technologies are limiting their massive use in food IP. This is the reason why a lot of research works are being currently performed that focus on increasing functionality (e.g., enabling the tag antenna as a sensing device) and reducing costs of components and materials of these RFID and SAW systems. Furthermore, benefits can be also achieved by means of integrating the RFID, SAW, and other sensing technologies. The RFID and SAW technologies can be embedded in a wireless sensor network (WSN), and the corresponding tags and readers can build more intelligent networks by sharing the sensing, logic, and transmission capabilities of the sensor networks. The above two technologies can be integrated in two different ways: sensor-enabled tags-RFID or SAW (or RFID or SAW sensor tags)-and RFID and/or SAW-embedded WSN. The application of these technologies on secondary packages, as the paperboard packages, can dilute the costs of application on primary packaging and allow the massive use of these technologies in the food supply chain.

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Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

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“…The tags encode the ID data using the delay time of the antenna-mode scattered pulse produced by a length of transmission line, and perform the sensing function using the phase/amplitude change of the scattered pulse modulated by a capacitive/resistive sensor at the end of the transmission line. But the potential application of the above transmission line-based tags is inherently limited by their low coding capacity [14], [21]. In addition, the number of the terminating sensors is also limited, and hence it is difficult to adapt this solution for simultaneously sensing multiple targets.…”

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Low-Cost Printed Chipless RFID Humidity Sensor Tag for Intelligent Packaging

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This paper presents a fully-printed chipless RFID sensor tag for short-range item identification and humidity monitoring applications. The tag consists of two planar inductor-capacitor resonators operating wirelessly through inductive coupling. One resonator is used to encode ID data based on frequency spectrum signature, and another one works as a humidity sensor, utilizing a paper substrate as a sensing material. The sensing performances of three paper substrates including commercial packaging paper are investigated. The use of paper provides excellent sensitivity and reasonable response time to humidity. The cheap and robust packaging paper, particularly, exhibits the largest sensitivity over the RH range from 20% to 70%, which offers the possibility of directly printing the sensor tag on traditional packages to make the package 'intelligent' at ultra-low cost.

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“…RFID is a promising technology which has revolutionized automatic identification and wireless sensing of tagged objects. 6 RF waves are exchanged between a tag and reader using wireless transmission. RFID is a fairly handy technology because it facilitates non-line of sight communication which improves the tag's efficiency and provides longer reading range.…”

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Miniaturized humidity and temperature sensing RFID enabled tags

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Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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A compact 27-bit linearly polarized chipless radio frequency identification tag is presented in this research. The proposed tag is designed with an overall tag dimension of 23 3 23 mm 2 . The tag comprises of metallic (copper) rings-based structure loaded with slots. These slots correspond to a particular sequence of bits. The circular tag is analysed using 2 different substrates, that is, Rogers RT/duroid/5870 and flexible Rogers RT/duroid/5880. The radar cross-section response of frequency signatured tag is analysed for humidity and temperature sensor designs. Humidity sensing is achieved by deploying a DuPont Kapton HN heat resistant sheet on the shortest slot of the tag, that is, the sensing slot. Temperature sensing is attained using Rogers RT/ duroid/5870 and Stanyl polyamide as a combined substrate. Hence, the miniaturized, robust, and flexible tag can be deployed over irregular surfaces for sensing purposes. K E Y W O R D Schipless tag, electromagnetic, flexibility, humidity sensor, temperature sensor | I NT ROD UCTI ONInternet of things (IoT) also known as ambient intelligence is an emerging technology. It ensures connectivity of physical and virtual objects to the internet at an unprecedented rate, thus, transforming traditional objects into smart ones. 1,2 This technology is an integral part of internet future, and it will interconnect uniquely identified embedded items through ubiquitous communication of physical objects. 3,4 IoT uses wireless and pervasive computing technologies to make objects intelligent. 1,5 The idea of IoT can be implemented using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID is a promising technology which has revolutionized automatic identification and wireless sensing of tagged objects. 6 RF waves are exchanged between a tag and reader using wireless transmission. RFID is a fairly handy technology because it facilitates non-line of sight communication which improves the tag's efficiency and provides longer reading range. [7][8][9] At the item level tracking, RFID technology is replacing optical barcodes. 7 The fabrication of microchip circuits is really expensive, and this sets a certain limitation on the manufacturing of RFID tags. This problem can be solved by excluding the microchip from the tag design. RFID tag without silicon chip is famous as chipless RFID tag. [10][11][12] Chipless tags have Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng. 2018;28:e21151.

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Development of a Low Cost Printable Chipless RFID Humidity Sensor

Cited by 149 publications

References 25 publications

Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

Low-Cost Printed Chipless RFID Humidity Sensor Tag for Intelligent Packaging

Miniaturized humidity and temperature sensing RFID enabled tags

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