Design of a chipless RFID sensor for water level detection

Author

Guillet, A. ; Vena, A. ; Perret, E. ; Tedjini, S.

Author_Institution

Lab. LCIS, Grenoble Inst. of Technol., Valence, France

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a new way of detecting the level of fluids, remotely, using a chipless RFID sensor is investigated for the first time. For the sake of comparison, a classical RFID tag applied on a box is used to measure a water level thanks to the variation of the threshold transmitting power. Then a chipless RFID sensor design based on multiple resonators etched on a flexible laminate is introduced. In this case, the operating frequencies are between 2.5 and 4 GHz. A comparison is drawn between these two techniques in terms of unit cost and performance.

Keywords

microwave detectors; microwave measurement; radiofrequency identification; RFID tag; chipless RFID sensor design; fluid level detection; frequency 2.5 GHz to 4 GHz; multiple resonators; unit cost; water level detection; water level measurement; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Power measurement; Radiofrequency identification; Resonant frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; Shape; chipless RFID; scatterers; sensor; water level detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2012 15th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0290-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2012.6262372

Filename

6262372