scholarly journals Printed antennas: from theory to praxis, challenges and applications

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 271-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Zichner ◽  
R. R. Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Multiple Antenna ◽  
Printed Antennas ◽  
Manufacturing Method ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Miniaturized, highly integrated wireless communication systems are used in many fields like logistics and mobile communications. Often multiple antenna structures are integrated in a single product. To achieve such a high level of integration the antenna structures are manufactured e.g. from flexible boards or via LDS (laser direct structuring) which allows the production of complex monopole or dipole antennas with three-dimensionally curved shapes. Main drawbacks are the sophisticated production process steps and their costs. The additive deposition of metallic inks or pastes by a printing process is an alternative manufacturing method with reduced cost. To implement such printed antennas we investigated in the fields of antenna design, simulation, printing technology and characterization. The chosen example of use was a customized dipole antenna for a Radio Frequency Identification application. The results prove the intended functionality of the printed dipole in regard to a highly cost efficient printing manufacturing.

A compact CPW-fed monopole antenna for multi-band application

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
YunYan Zhou ◽  
NianShun Zhao ◽  
RenXia Ning ◽  
Jie Bao
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Satellite Communication ◽  
Coplanar Waveguide ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Monopole Antenna ◽  
Radiation Characteristics ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
Compact Size

Abstract A compact coplanar waveguide-fed monopole antenna is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is composed of three monopole branches. In order to achieve the miniaturization, the longest branch was bent. The antenna is printed on an FR4 dielectric substrate, having a compact size of 0.144λ0 × 0.105λ0 × 0.003λ0 at its lowest resonant frequency of 900 MHz. The multiband antenna covers five frequency bands: 820–990 MHz, 1.87–2.08 GHz, 2.37–2.93 GHz, 3.98–4.27 GHz, and 5.47–8.9 GHz, which covers the entire radio frequency identification bands (860–960 MHz, 2.4–2.48 GHz, and 5.725–5.875 GHz), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) bands (890–960 MHz and 1.850–1.990 GHz), WLAN bands (2.4–2.484 GHz and 5.725–5.825 GHz), WiMAX band (2.5–2.69 GHz), X-band satellite communication systems (7.25–7.75 GHz and 7.9–8.4 GHz), and sub 6 GHz in 5G mobile communication system (3.3–4.2 GHz and 4.4–5.0 GHz). Also, the antenna has good radiation characteristics in the operating band, which is nearly omnidirectional. Both the simulated and experimental results are presented and compared and a good agreement is established. The proposed antenna operates in five frequency bands with high gain and good radiation characteristics, which make it a suitable candidate in terminal devices with multiple communication standards.

scholarly journals Integration of Blockchain Technology in IoT for High Level Security

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 491-497
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Humidity Sensor ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Distributed Network ◽  
Peer Communication ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
A Chain ◽  
High Level ◽  
Machine Communication

IoT (Internet of Things) made headway from Machine to Machine communication without human intrusion for number of machines to connect with the aid of network. There is esteem; by 2020 there will be 26 times more connected things than people. Hence, the concern of security rises along with the high installments. The BlockChain Technology takes place of all central entities, which is peer to peer communication with the distributed network. In this paper, two Arduino boards as nodes and a Raspberry Pi as server are to be configured to connect to the Wi-Fi using ESP8266(node mc). To make data transmission from the two nodes to server, integration of temperature and humidity sensor in one node and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) reader in other node is to be done. Data should be in the form of blocks and integration of data is in the form of a chain, forming it a Blockchain. All the blocks are linked in the chain manner of which the current hash of the previous block must match with the previous hash of the next block. Then only the blocks of data are secured. While receiving data every time from nodes to server, the previous hash is to be checked such that the arrival of the information is being verified to know if it’s really genuine. If the cryptographic hash does not match then data manipulation is happened. So, in this paper, we will see, along with how practically the security is highly offered by the blockchain technology and how can we easily identify if the data has been tampered along the way it reaches to us. Henceforth, we will found a way of application to secure our IoT data without any regrets in this paper.

Reliability evaluation of wearable radio frequency identification tags: Design and fabrication of a two-part textile antenna

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaochen Chen ◽  
Leena Ukkonen ◽  
Johanna Virkki
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cyclic Strain ◽  
Moist Environment ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Identification Tags ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
The One

Passive radio frequency identification-based technology is a convincing approach to the achievement of versatile energy- and cost-efficient wireless platforms for future wearable applications. By using two-part antenna structures, the antenna-electronics interconnections can remain non-stressed, which can significantly improve the reliability of the textile-embedded wireless components. In this article, we describe fabrication of two-part stretchable and non-stretchable passive ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification textile tags using electro-textile and embroidered antennas, and test their reliability when immersed as well as under cyclic strain. The results are compared to tags with traditional one-part dipole antennas fabricated from electro-textiles and by embroidery. Based on the results achieved, the initial read ranges of the two-part antenna tags, around 5 m, were only slightly shorter than those of the one-part antenna tags. In addition, the tag with two-part antennas can maintain high performance in a moist environment and during continuous stretching, unlike the one-part antenna tag where the antenna-integrated circuit attachment is under stress.

Structure optimization of an ultrahigh frequency radio frequency identification tag thread based on the normal mode helix dipole antenna

2020 ◽  
pp. 004051752094890
Author(s):  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Jiyong Hu ◽  
Xiong Yan ◽  
Xudong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Resonant Frequency ◽  
Normal Mode ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Rfid Tag ◽  
Helical Pitch ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Linear Dipole

This paper describes the design of a novel ultrahigh frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) tag thread that mainly consisted of the common yarn and the normal mode helix dipole antenna. The linear dipole antenna for the UHF RFID tag thread was too long to miniaturize the tag. In order to maximize the read performance and miniaturize the size of the tag, the basic antenna structure parameters, such as the helical pitch and single arm length, were optimized by analyzing the radiation parameter S11 of the normal mode helix dipole antenna based on simulation experiments. The simulation experiments started with optimizing the single arm length to obtain the minimum of the S11 parameter at resonant frequency, then the helical pitch was further optimized to limit the resonant frequency to the UHF range. The simulation results showed the resonant frequency rises with an increase of helical pitch and declines with an increase of single arm length. Furthermore, a series of UHF RFID tag threads with good performance from the simulation cases were prepared, and the performance of the optimized tag was validated. Generally, the UHF RFID tag thread with optimized helix dipole antenna could reduce the axial length of the tag by 57% and improve the reading range by 500%, and its performance was greatly superior to that of the UHF RFID tag thread with the classical linear dipole antenna.

scholarly journals Microruban Dipole Antenna for RFID Applications at 2.45 GHz

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loubna Berrich ◽  
Lahbib Zenkouar
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Input Impedance ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Antenna Design ◽  
Reflection Coefficients ◽  
Ansoft Hfss ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Folded Dipole ◽  
Rfid Applications

<p><span lang="EN-US">Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology used mainly to identify tagged items or to track their locations. The most used antennas for RFID application are planar dipoles. For antenna design, it is necessary that the antenna has an impedance value equal to the conjugate of the impedance of the integrated circuit CI. To have a good adaptation allowing the maximum power transfer, there are several techniques. In this work we focus to the adaptation technical T-match which is based on the insertion of a second folded dipole in the center of the first dipole. This technique is modeled by an equivalent circuit to calculate the size of the folded dipole to have new input impedance of the antenna equal to the conjugate of the impedance of the IC. We also look to present a conceptual and technological approach of new topologies of linear dipoles. We proceeded to fold at right angles of the radiating strands in order to explore other topologiesof type  L and Z. The interest of this microstrip folded dipole is their effectiveness to achieve coverage of Blind directions. The results obtained by the platform Ansoft HFSS, allowed us to obtain a quasi-uniform radiation patterns and the reflection coefficients that exceed -37 dB.</span></p>

Inductance Investigation of Screen-Printed Radio Frequency Identification Antennas

2015 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Ling Li ◽  
Fu Yan Zhao ◽  
Lu Hai Li
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Flexible Substrate ◽  
Core Layer ◽  
Magnetic Core ◽  
Printed Antenna ◽  
Printed Antennas ◽  
Testing Frequency ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Rfid Antennas

Printed antennas fabricated using conductive ink printed on flexible substrate is low-cost and environmental friendly. The inductance and the quality factor are two important parameters for designing RFID antenna and were studied for the printed RFID antennas. The results show that the inductance is not only determined by the size of the designed RFID antenna but also related to the resistance of the printed antenna coils. The inductance increases with the increasing testing frequency, while the Q value decreases with the increasing testing frequency. The soft magnetic ink prepared with γ-Fe2O3 was used to enhance the inductance of the printed antennas with printing technology. The inductance of the printed antenna with the magnetic core layer is increased by 5.7% at 13.56 MHz.

An Intelligent Manufacturing System Based on WSN and RFID in Industrial Plants

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 1256-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Wei Cui ◽  
Yong Zhao ◽  
Hui Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Intelligent Manufacturing System ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Real Time Information

The intelligent manufacturing systems are in networked framework via a variety of networking communication systems integrating the heterogeneous collections of manufacturing worker, material, devices and real-time information. This paper presents a intelligent manufacturing system that is implemented by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The system monitors and controls with the clear objective of maximizing the Quality of Service (QoS) provided by the manufacturing resources and to analyze and make decision. This study describes the design and implementation of the system developed as well as performance testing and evaluation results, in terms of system transmission delay and energy consumption.

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