Flexible UHF RFID Tag for Blood Tubes Monitoring

Abstract

Low-cost and flexible radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for automatic identification, tracking, and monitoring of blood products is in great demand by the healthcare industry. A robust performance to meet security and traceability requirements in the different blood sample collection and analysis centers is also required. In this paper, a novel low-cost and flexible passive RFID tag is presented for blood sample collection tubes. The tag antenna is based on two compact symmetrical capacitive structures and works at the ultra-high frequency (UHF) European band (865 MHz–868 MHz). The tag antenna is designed considering the whole dielectric parameters such as the blood, substrate and tube. In this way, it operates efficiently in the presence of blood, which has high dielectric permittivity and loss. Measurement results of the proposed tag have confirmed simulation results. The measured performance of the tag shows good matching in the desired frequency band, leading to reading ranges up to 2.2 m, which is 4.4 times higher than typical commercial tags. The potential of this tag as a sensor to monitor the amount of blood contained in clinic tubes is also demonstrated. It is expected that the proposed tag can be useful and effective in future RFID systems to introduce security and traceability in different blood sample collection and analysis centers.

Reliable UHF Long-Range Textile-Integrated RFID Tag Based on a Compact Flexible Antenna Filament

“…Read Range Antenna s Area . (6) The performance of the proposed tag is compared to state-of-art RFID antennas and tags in Table 2. It can be observed that the proposed antenna achieves the highest FoM due to its compact size, while not compromising on the read range.…”

“…Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been widely adopted as a communication and identification standard for low-cost distributed IoT systems [3][4][5][6][7]. UHF RFID, utilizing impedance-matched radiative antennas and passive RFID integrated circuits (ICs) enables read-range ranges in excess of few meters [3].…”

A Review of Flexible Wearable Antenna Sensors: Design, Fabrication Methods, and Applications

“…Various flexible wearable antenna sensors are implemented on different types of materials such as Kapton polyimide [ 92 ], cellulose filter paper [ 93 ], polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film [ 94 ], and graphene film (FGF) [ 95 ]. These materials are being applied as promising candidates for innovative flexible antenna sensors.…”

Circular multi‐usage RFID tag antenna with coding ability for chipless application

“…Many radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antennas for ultra‐high frequency (UHF) band have been designed in the previous work 1‐5 . With these designs, some of the tag antennas can be mounted on metallic surfaces directly, 6,7 other reported designs can work on the human body, organs, blood bag and water‐filled containers 8‐11 . Some designs can be attached to a variety of object surfaces that have the multi‐usage function, as reported in Reference 12.…”

“…containers. [8][9][10][11] Some designs can be attached to a variety of object surfaces that have the multi-usage function, as reported in Reference 12. Besides, due to restriction on the available bands for UHF RFID in different countries and regions, some dual-band [13][14][15] or wideband [16][17][18] tag antennas have been designed.…”