Wearable battery-free active paper printed RFID tag with human-energy scavenger

Author

Orecchini, G. ; Yang, L. ; Tentzeris, M.M. ; Roselli, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

5-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The embodiment of wearable battery-free, active, paper printed RFID tags provided with energy scavenging capabilities is presented. In this research, extraction of electrical energy from human body movement is obtained by a piezoelectric energy scavenger powering up an active RFID tag module implemented on flexible organic substrate. The application dealt with hereafter testifies a promising approach useful for a vast variety of applications where wearable electronics is required.

Keywords

piezoelectric devices; radiofrequency identification; electrical energy extraction; energy scavenging capabilities; flexible organic substrate; human-energy scavenger; piezoelectric energy scavenger; wearable battery-free active paper printed RFID tag; wearable electronics; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Capacitors; Footwear; Radiofrequency identification; Regulators; Transmitters; RFID tags; energy scavenging; inkjet printing; sensor node;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-754-2

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972808

Filename

5972808