Harmonic Power Harvesting System for Passive RFID Sensor Tags

Allane, Dahmane; Vera, Gianfranco Andía; Duroc, Yvan; Touhami, R.; Tedjini, Smaïl

doi:10.1109/tmtt.2016.2574990

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“…Non‐linear components in rectennas are responsible for generating the harmonics of the fundamental frequency which are re‐radiated and cause electromagnetic interference with the antenna and nearby circuits resulting in performance degradation. To overcome this low pass filters is added between antenna and rectifying circuit but at the cost of increased size.…”

Section: Design Aspects Of the Antennas Suitable For Rfeh Systemmentioning

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RF energy harvesting systems: An overview and design issues

Divakaran

Krishna

Nasimuddin

2018

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

136

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One of the main challenges in implementing sensor devices for internet of things (IoTs), is the means for the operating power supply. RF energy harvesting (RFEH) presents a promising solution as RF power is a suitable choice particularly for cases where solar harvesting is not feasible. However, in spite of RF communication system design being a well-established, there are several challenges poised for the implementation of the RFEH systems especially for harvesting the ambient RF signals. The challenges can be widely categorized as the overall conversion efficiency, bandwidth, and form factor. In this article, an exhaustive survey on the different RFEH system that is reported is carried out and discussed. Important design issues are identified with insights drawn. First, we have presented the challenges in designing antennas for RFEH systems. This is followed by rectifier circuits and matching networks, and eventually a general frame work for designing of ambient RFEH systems is deduced.IoT sensors, RF energy harvesting, rectennas, rectifier, matching circuit | INTRODUCTIONRecent advances in technology has led to the development of Internet of Things (IoT), Wearable Electronics, 5G Wireless Systems, etc, which requires widespread deployment of sensors often positioned at remote places 1 with the capacity of communicating wirelessly with each other. Power is often the limiting factor, as we have to depend on battery sources. This leads to the tedious task of disposing and replacing enormous number of batteries causing environmental pollution.Energy harvesting (EH) provides a green as well as sustainable solution to this challenge. This involves absorbing ambient energy and converting it into electricity to power up the battery/sensors. 2 Various sources of ambient energy are solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, electromagnetic energy, thermal energy, mechanical energy, etc. The block diagram of a typical EH system is shown in Figure 1. An energy harvester converts the incident ambient energy into electrical energy. Power management unit (PMU) conditions the electrical energy into a form suitable for a particular application. Solar energy, even though the most abundant of the sources, suffers from intermittent supply. 3 Due to its continuous availability, radio frequency (RF) source is an alternative. However, it suffers from low incident power levels. This can be improved by using a dedicated source and an efficient RF to DC conversion circuit. Low power consumption in the sensors and a widespread availability of RF power makes it as a tangible option for energy harvesting.The RFEH process involves harvesting electrical energy from RF signals (which could be from a dedicated, ambient, or unknown RF source). The power density from the various RF sources ranges from 0.1 (ambient RF) to 1000 (dedicated RF) μW/cm 2 . The various RF energy sources are, namely, WiFi, WLAN, Digital TV, AM, FM, Bluetooth, etc. Due to its ubiquitous nature, it can be used to power wireless sensor nodes, 4 wireless body area networks, ...

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Section: Design Aspects Of the Antennas Suitable For Rfeh Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

RF energy harvesting systems: An overview and design issues

Divakaran

Krishna

Nasimuddin

2018

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

136

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“…These types of systems allow remote reading, writing, and transmission of acquired data in real-time for archiving purposes. (Allane et al, 2016, Fan et al, 2013. Therefore, the process of obtaining parameter data is expedited and sending it to the database is automated.…”

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Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture

2023

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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EU forestry does not currently have automatic planters, hence the project proposes to develop an innovative technology in which the key role will be played by an autonomous planter designed for establishing forest cultures and afforestation of former farmland and reclaimed areas with the use of seedlings with a covered root system (grown in container nurseries). The device will have a self-levelling traction system, a control system with a satellite navigation module to support autonomous navigation and planting site selection, a mechanism of planting spot preparation, a planting unit, an intelligent robotic arm to feed seedlings from containers to the planting unit according to a given algorithm, a container storage unit with an automated feeder, a drive unit with an electro-hydraulic control system, a control module, and a wireless remote control system. The autonomous planter will significantly reduce the cost and machine inputs during establishing forest cultures and afforestation of former farmland and reclaimed areas with the use of seedlings with a covered root system, and thus perfectly fits into the assumptions of agriculture 4.0.

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“…In parallel to the second harmonic RFID system development, another popular approach was to exploit the third harmonic generation from the conventional RFID tag [67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. In this method, the antiparallel combination of detector diodes in a charge pump configuration was leveraged towards third harmonic generation from a conventional RFID.…”

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“…A conventional RFID tag would backscatter modulated the third harmonic along with the modulated fundamental carrier. In the literature, the generated third harmonic is exploited in two ways: (a) harvest the third harmonic and enhance the read range [71,72]; and (b) use the third harmonic for tag-to-reader link communication [70,73,74]. The implementation of the conventional tag and backscattering third harmonic is shown in Figure 13.…”

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Recent Advances and Applications of Passive Harmonic RFID Systems: A Review

2021

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Harmonic Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have attracted significant interest over the last decade as it provides many benefits over the conventional RFID systems. Harmonic RFID is desired over conventional RFID systems due to reduced self-jamming, location accuracy from dual frequency, and higher phase noise immunity. In a harmonic RFID system, the tag receives instructions from the reader at an RF carrier frequency and replies back at the harmonic of the RF frequency. A nonlinear element consuming very low power at the tag is required to generate the harmonic carrier for the battery-less system. In this review article, a detailed contrast between conventional and harmonic RFID systems is presented. This is followed by different circuit design techniques to generate harmonics and integration techniques to form a fully operable passive harmonic RFID tag. Also, a wide range of applications, especially sensor integration with harmonic RFID’s, along with the future trends are presented.

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Harmonic Power Harvesting System for Passive RFID Sensor Tags

Cited by 45 publications

References 31 publications

RF energy harvesting systems: An overview and design issues

RF energy harvesting systems: An overview and design issues

Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture

Recent Advances and Applications of Passive Harmonic RFID Systems: A Review

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