Survey of range improvement of commercial RFID tags with Power Optimized Waveforms

Author

Trotter, Matthew S. ; Durgin, Gregory D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 April 2010

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

202

Abstract

The power sensitivity of passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags heavily affects the read reliability and range. Inventory tracking systems rely heavily on strong read reliability while animal tracking in large fields rely heavily on long read range. Power Optimized Waveforms (POWs) provide a solution to improving both read reliability and read range by increasing RFID tag RF to DC power conversion efficiency. This paper presents a survey of the increases and decreases to read range of common RFID tags from Alien and Impinj with Higgs, Higgs 2, Higgs 3, Monza 3, and Monza 4 RFICs. In addition, POWs are explained in detail with examples and methods of integration into a reader.

Keywords

radio tracking; radiofrequency identification; radiofrequency integrated circuits; telecommunication network reliability; DC power conversion efficiency; RFIC; commercial RFID tags; inventory tracking systems; passive radio frequency identification tags; power optimized waveforms; power sensitivity; Animals; Antennas and propagation; Electromagnetic propagation; Energy consumption; Legged locomotion; Passive RFID tags; Power system reliability; RFID tags; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID, 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5742-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID.2010.5467265

Filename

5467265