Effect of nanofluids on the readability of RFID tags

Author

Mapa, Lash ; Aryal, Gokarna ; Chanda, Kiran

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is becoming increasingly popular in the area of supply chain management, to track and record shipments in retail and manufacturing industries. This paper focuses on the readability of RFID tags in the presence of various nanofluids at different concentrations on a conveyor belt which is a typical packaging environment. Several variables tested in this experiment were different types of nanofluids at several concentrations, different speeds of the conveyor. Antenna type, and the distance of the tag from the antenna were kept constant throughout the experiment. The data was analyzed using nested factorial design to examine the significance of the main factors.

Keywords

antennas; belts; conveyors; manufacturing industries; nanofluidics; packaging; radiofrequency identification; retailing; supply chain management; RFID tags; antenna type; conveyor belt; manufacturing industry; nanofluids; nested factorial design; packaging environment; radio frequency identification technology; readability; retail industry; shipments; supply chain management; Antennas; Belts; Containers; Copper; Fluids; Radiofrequency identification; Zinc oxide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Normal, IL

ISSN

2154-0357

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6873-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2010.5612104

Filename

5612104