Measurement system with a RFID tag antenna mounted on structural members for infrastructure health monitoring

Author

Jayawardana, Devaka ; Kharkovsky, Sergey ; Liyanapathirana, Ranjith

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infrastruct. Eng., Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

In this paper, a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based wireless system for infrastructure health monitoring is studied. Ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID section with two different patch antennas is designed and investigated with the tag antenna mounted on concrete and metal structural members. The tag antenna is designed to be compatible with a new generation RFID chip and to be used to develop a sensor integrated RFID tag. Changes of the electromagnetic performance of the tag antenna are observed with an analysis of achievable read ranges with selected RFID hardware. The optimized tag antenna has shown satisfactory tolerance in the studied cases where the antenna system have the potential to be used in the development of the proposed RFID-based wireless infrastructure health monitoring system.

Keywords

computerised monitoring; concrete; condition monitoring; measurement systems; microstrip antennas; radiofrequency identification; structural engineering computing; RFID hardware; RFID tag antenna; RFID-based wireless infrastructure health monitoring system; Ultra high frequency RFID section; concrete members; electromagnetic performance; measurement system; metal structural members; new generation RFID chip; patch antennas; radio frequency identification-based wireless system; sensor integrated RFID tag; structural health monitoring; Antennas; Concrete; Metals; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Infrastructure health monitoring; RFID; concrete and metal members; patch antenna; read range; reader antenna; reader integrated wireless node; sensor integrated RFID tag; tag antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Pisa

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2015.7151231

Filename

7151231