Wireless Concrete Mixture Composition Sensor Based on Time-Coded UWB RFID

Author

Ramos, Angel ; Girbau, David ; Lazaro, Antonio ; Villarino, Ramon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Electr. & Autom. Control Eng., Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Volume

25

Issue

10

fYear

2015

Firstpage

681

Lastpage

683

Abstract

This work presents a non-destructive wireless, concrete quality sensor based on chipless ultra-wideband radio frequency identification. The sensor is based on detecting the delay between two scattering modes induced by permittivity changes in the concrete. Theoretical, simulated and measured results with several embedded tags in samples are shown. The composition of the concrete blocks is remotely detected and classified.

Keywords

concrete; condition monitoring; nondestructive testing; permittivity; radiofrequency identification; structural engineering; ultra wideband technology; wireless sensor networks; chipless ultrawideband radio frequency identification; nondestructive wireless sensor; permittivity changes; structural health; time-coded UWB RFID; wireless concrete mixture composition sensor; Concrete; Delay lines; Microstrip; Nonhomogeneous media; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Radiofrequency identification; Concrete; RFID; UWB; multilayer microstrip; non-destructive testing (NDT); permittivity sensor;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2015.2463105

Filename

7208900