Long range metal mountable tag antenna for passive UHF RFID systems

Author

Björninen, Toni ; Delzo, Karina Espejo ; Ukkonen, Leena ; Elsherbeni, Atef Z. ; Sydänheimo, Lauri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Rauma, Finland

fYear

2011

fDate

15-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

206

Abstract

Development of a long range platform tolerant metal mountable patch-type tag antenna for passive ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) systems is discussed. Results from full-wave electromagnetic simulations are presented to explain the design procedure and to evaluate the performance of the prototype tag antenna. The design uncertainty is quantified based on the expected maximum variations in the tag antenna and tag chip impedance. Wireless RFID measurements based on the EPC Generation 2 protocol are used in experimental tag design verification. The prototype tag achieves 25-meter maximum theoretical line of sight read range on metallic objects at 915 MHz.

Keywords

UHF antennas; microstrip antennas; protocols; radiofrequency identification; EPC generation 2 protocol; frequency 915 MHz; long range platform tolerant metal mountable patch-type tag antenna; passive UHF RFID systems; passive ultra high frequency radio frequency identification; tag chip impedance; wireless RFID measurements; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Impedance; Metals; Radiofrequency identification; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sitges

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0028-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2011.6068638

Filename

6068638