Speed Adjustment Algorithm for an RFID Reader and Conveyor Belt System Performing Dynamic Framed Slotted Aloha

Author

Simon, Laurent ; Saengudomlert, Poompat ; Ketprom, Urachada

Author_Institution

Asian Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2008

fDate

16-17 April 2008

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

206

Abstract

Dynamic environments pose a challenge to the read performances of current RFID systems. Moving tags on a conveyor belt affect the read performance of a static reader. This paper attempts to evaluate a static reader identifying moving tags on a conveyor belt. We propose an algorithm enabling the conveyor belt to dynamically adjust its speed for the RFID reader to reliably identify tags without prior knowledge of how tags are distributed on the conveyor belt. We show by simulations that our algorithm yields more than 99% of tags being successfully identified, along with trying to maximize the average speed of the conveyor belt. In addition, the algorithm can be applied for different reader´s ranges.

Keywords

conveyors; radiofrequency identification; RFID conveyor; RFID reader; dynamic framed slotted aloha; speed adjustment algorithm; Access protocols; Belts; Broadcasting; IEC standards; ISO standards; Manufacturing; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Throughput; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID, 2008 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1711-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1712-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID.2008.4519371

Filename

4519371