Title :
Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags
Author :
Atojoko, A. ; Bin-Melha, M. ; Elkazmi, E. ; Usman, Muhammad ; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. ; See, C.H.
Author_Institution :
Mobile & Satellite Commun. Res. Centre, Univ. of Bradford UK, Bradford, UK
Abstract :
Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this problem will be by deploying some mechanism to monitor liquid level at each point in time and escalating unusual liquid levelsto a pump control circuit or to the relevant authorities for prompt action to avoid a flooding occurrence. This paper presents a low cost power efficient liquid level monitoring technique. Passive RFID tags are designed modelled and deployed, the signal variation from the Alien Reader Software are used to effectively estimate the level of liquid in any surface or underground tank. The experimental set up is presented and an expository presentation is made of the passive tag design, modelled and simulated and adopted for same application.
Keywords :
level measurement; monitoring; radiofrequency identification; Alien Reader software; liquid level monitoring; passive RFID tags; passive tag design; pump control circuit; radiofrequency identification; signal variation; storage tanks; tank flooding; volatile poisonous industrial liquids; Antennas; Liquids; Monitoring; RFID tags; Storage tanks; Passive RFID tags; Tank flooding; keywords; liquid level monitoring; power efficient;
Conference_Titel :
Design and Test Symposium (IDT), 2013 8th International
Conference_Location :
Marrakesh
DOI :
10.1109/IDT.2013.6727088