Session 26 overview / wireless: Low-power wireless

Summary form only given. RFID and remotely powered sensors will be ubiquitous in the future in applications as diverse as healthcare and inventory management. These applications represent a new paradigm for data transfer in the information age in that this technology combines remote powering and wireless data transmission resulting in the need for low-power solutions. A key component is the sensor node, which monitors and transfers the data from a remote site. A reader might provide the radio frequency energy to remotely power up the sensor, as well as detect its information.