Design and Development of a Novel Paper-based Inkjet-Printed RFID-Enabled UHF (433.9 MHz) Sensor Node

Author

Vyas, Rushi ; Rida, Amin ; Yang, Li ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of ECE, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, inkjet-printed RFID-enabled sensor modules are investigated for the first time on paper-based substrates for UHF sensing/monitoring applications. An inkjet-printed antenna using silver nano particles on paper substrate is presented and utilized for the compact implementation of the wireless part of the node. The efficiency of the modulation scheme of the sensor signal is characterized at the UHF RFID Band operating around the center frequency of 433.9 MHz, verifying the feasibility of the sensor/rfid integration. Such low-cost integrated sensing nodes would enable the deployment of large ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that would mark a revolution in wireless automatic identification and real-time monitoring for medical, inventory and security applications.

Keywords

UHF devices; ad hoc networks; ink jet printers; microwave detectors; nanoparticles; radiofrequency identification; wireless sensor networks; UHF sensor; ad hoc wireless sensor networks; frequency 433.9 MHz; inkjet printed RFID; low cost integrated sensing nodes; paper substrate; real time monitoring; silver nano particles; wireless automatic identification; Biosensors; Costs; Dipole antennas; Microwave sensors; Radiofrequency identification; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Silver; Temperature sensors; UHF antennas; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2007. APMC 2007. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0748-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0749-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2007.4554641

Filename

4554641