Battery-free wireless light-sensing tag based on a long-range dual-port dual-polarized RFID platform
Battery-free wireless light-sensing tag based on a long-range dual-port dual-polarized RFID platform
Radio frequency identification (RFID) represents an emerging platform for passive RF-powered wireless sensing. Differential Multi-port RFID systems are widely used to enable multiple independent measurands to be gathered, or to overcome channel variations. This paper presents a dual-port/dual-integrated circuit (IC) RFID sensing tag based on a shared aperture dual-polarized microstrip antenna. The tag can be loaded with different sensors where the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of one IC is modulated using a sensor, and the other acts as a measurand-insensitive reference, for differential sensing. The 868 MHz tag maintains a minimum unloaded read range of 14 m insensitive to deployment on metals or lossy objects, which represents the longest reported range of a multi-port RFID sensing tag. The tag is loaded with a light-dependent resistor (LDR) to demonstrate its functionality as a battery-less wireless RFID light sensor. Following detailed RF characterization of the LDR, it is shown that the impedance, and consequently the RSSI, of the sensing tag are modulated by changing the light intensity, whereas the reference port maintains a mostly unchanged response for a correlated channel. The proposed tag shows the potential for channel variations-tolerant differential RFID sensing platforms based on polarization-diversity antennas.
Internet of Things, RFID, antennas, differential RFID, impedance matching, light sensing, microstrip antennas, multi-port RFID, patch antennas, wireless sensor node
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Stephen
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1 July 2022
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Stephen
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Wagih, Mahmoud, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Stephen
(2022)
Battery-free wireless light-sensing tag based on a long-range dual-port dual-polarized RFID platform.
Sensors, 22 (13), [4782].
(doi:10.3390/s22134782).
Abstract
Radio frequency identification (RFID) represents an emerging platform for passive RF-powered wireless sensing. Differential Multi-port RFID systems are widely used to enable multiple independent measurands to be gathered, or to overcome channel variations. This paper presents a dual-port/dual-integrated circuit (IC) RFID sensing tag based on a shared aperture dual-polarized microstrip antenna. The tag can be loaded with different sensors where the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of one IC is modulated using a sensor, and the other acts as a measurand-insensitive reference, for differential sensing. The 868 MHz tag maintains a minimum unloaded read range of 14 m insensitive to deployment on metals or lossy objects, which represents the longest reported range of a multi-port RFID sensing tag. The tag is loaded with a light-dependent resistor (LDR) to demonstrate its functionality as a battery-less wireless RFID light sensor. Following detailed RF characterization of the LDR, it is shown that the impedance, and consequently the RSSI, of the sensing tag are modulated by changing the light intensity, whereas the reference port maintains a mostly unchanged response for a correlated channel. The proposed tag shows the potential for channel variations-tolerant differential RFID sensing platforms based on polarization-diversity antennas.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 June 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 June 2022
Published date: 1 July 2022
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Funding: This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grants EP/P010164/1.
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Internet of Things, RFID, antennas, differential RFID, impedance matching, light sensing, microstrip antennas, multi-port RFID, patch antennas, wireless sensor node
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/468298
ISSN: 1424-8220
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