Washing durability of embroidered polymer coated RFID tags

Author

Toivonen, Mikko ; Koski, K. ; Moradi, Elham ; Babar, A.A. ; Sydanheimo, Lauri ; Ukkonen, Leena ; Rahmat-Samii, Yahya ; Kallio, Pasi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

1490

Lastpage

1491

Abstract

Embroidered RFID tags can be used in fabric integrated on-body applications such as tracking and access control. Moreover, embroidered antennas are important also in other wearable, body-centric wireless systems. The durability of the embroidered tag antenna is essential for garment-integrated applications due to the high probability to encounter different environmental conditions. In this paper, the effect of washing on an embroidered RFID tag with a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer coating is investigated by measuring the realized gain of the antenna before and after each washing procedure. It was found that coating the embroidered tag antenna with a polymer increased its washing durability.

Keywords

durability; polymer films; radiofrequency identification; wearable antennas; PDMS; access control; embroidered polymer coated RFID tags; embroidered tag antenna; environmental conditions; fabric integrated on-body applications; garment-integrated applications; polydimethylsiloxane polymer coating; washing durability; wearable body-centric wireless systems; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Gain; Integrated circuits; Loss measurement; Polymers; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711404

Filename

6711404