Performance assessment of an enhanced RFID sensor tag for long-run sensing applications

Merenda, Massimo; Farris, Ivan; Felini, Corrado; Militano, Leonardo; Spinella, S. C.; Corte, Francesco G. Della

doi:10.1109/icsens.2014.6985105

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“…RFID tags combined with passive (powered by the induced electromagnetic field) or active (battery powered) sensors are a niche product that only few manufacturers have in their portfolio. Nevertheless, in several areas of application a growing demand of RFID sensor systems is developing [1], [2], [3], [4].…”

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Two application examples of RFID sensor systems - identification and diagnosis of concrete components and monitoring of dangerous goods transports

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The combination of RFID-tags and energy efficient sensors offers promising potential for identification, diagnosis, and monitoring applications - particularly when it comes to objects, which require continuous observation and which are difficult to access with conventional tools. This paper presents two examples as an outlook for RFID sensor systems in embedded structures and in mobile applications.

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“…As a consequence, many studies confirm that battery-less RFID tags can be very helpful in indoor environments to support smart home [4] and e-health [5] applications. Moreover, equipping the RFID sensor tag with a capacitor for long-run sensing activities [6,7] paves the way to a wider range of applications, such as data logging or environmental sensing also in wide-range scenarios [8,9].…”

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Design and Implementation of a CoAP-Compliant Solution for RFID Inclusion in the Internet of Things

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Recent technological advancements allowed widening the applicability scope of the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology from item identification to sensor-enabled computation platforms. This feature, added to the native radio energy-harvesting capability and the extremely low power consumption, has attracted the interest of research and industrial communities and pushed them to include the RFID technology into a global network of interconnected objects, as envisaged by the Internet of Things paradigm. In the last few years, standardization bodies have made significant efforts to design lightweight approaches, such as CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), to efficiently manage resource-constrained nodes by using traditional web interfaces; nevertheless, RFID integration is not addressed yet. In this paper, we propose a CoAP-compliant solution where RFID tags, behaving as virtual CoAP servers, are directly accessible by remote CoAP clients via a reader, which acts as a CoAP proxy. A real testbed, addressing key aspects, such as tag addressing, discovery and management of CoAP requests via RFID operations, is deployed to validate the feasibility of the proposal. Experimental results show rapid response times: less than 60 ms are requested for resource retrieval, while from 80 to 360 ms for sending data to the RFID device, depending on the tag memory dimension.

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“…Wireless Transmitter: In order to obtain an efficient and reliable monitoring system in terms of high-speed data transmission, the following points should be carefully analyzed during the design process [27]: (i) devices with high power transmission and high sensitivity (i.e., high signal-to-noise ratio, SNR) should be chosen; (ii) the real operating environment should be carefully analyzed (e.g., considering any obstacles that may affect the transmission distance); (iii) the frequency of the RF carrier should be taken into account; and (iv) design layout, mechanics, and coding schemes to the application should be customized case by case [28][29][30][31][32]. Recent protocols for low-power, long-distance data transmission include i) several low-power wireless protocols (LPW; see [27]), i.e., ANT, 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics (RF4CE), Bluetooth low energy, and Bluetooth 5, where ANT is a wireless personal network protocol; (ii) two low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN; see [33]), i.e., narrow-band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and long-range, low-power wireless platform (LoRa).…”

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A Real-Time Decision Platform for the Management of Structures and Infrastructures

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Natural disasters and the poor management of civil engineering structures and infrastructures require timely action and new tools such as specially designed structural health monitoring platforms. This paper proposes an innovative platform based on a network of wirelessly connected, low-power, and renewable-energy-fed sensor units. The platform is a multipurpose tool for diagnostics, maintenance, and supervision, capable of simultaneously carrying out damage detection, localization, identification, and “multiclass” and “multi-material” level quantification of different types of failures. In addition, it works as a decision support tool for emergency management and post-disaster assessment, here tailored for an Italian theme park. The platform uses innovative algorithms based on the concept of the vibro-acoustic signature of the asset monitored. The vibro-acoustic signatures of the monitored assets are gathered by the microphones and accelerometers of the platform’s sensor units. Then, almost simultaneously, they are analyzed using specifically designed wavelet-based and convolutional-neural-network-based algorithms, which are able to extract crucial information about the structural and environmental conditions of both the asset and the areas of the thematic park. In addition, the platform shows escape routes during an emergency, indicating meeting points and helping people to proceed safely along a recognizable escape route to a safe place, as demonstrated by the simulations.

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Performance assessment of an enhanced RFID sensor tag for long-run sensing applications

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Two application examples of RFID sensor systems - identification and diagnosis of concrete components and monitoring of dangerous goods transports

Two application examples of RFID sensor systems - identification and diagnosis of concrete components and monitoring of dangerous goods transports

Design and Implementation of a CoAP-Compliant Solution for RFID Inclusion in the Internet of Things

A Real-Time Decision Platform for the Management of Structures and Infrastructures

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