scholarly journals High Performance UHF RFID Tags for Item Level Tracing Systems in Critical Supply Chains

Author(s):  
Luca Catarinucci ◽  
Riccardo Colella ◽  
Mario De ◽  
Luigi Patrono ◽  
Luciano Tarricone
Author(s):  
Zhou Yi ◽  
Zi Qin Phua ◽  
Vitor N. B. Rangel ◽  
Johné M. Parker

Recently, the Internet of things (IoT) has emerged as a promising solution for several industrial applications. One of the key components in IoT is passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags which do not require a power source for operations. Specifically, ultra-high frequency (UHF) tags are studied in this paper. However, due to factors such as tag-to-tag interference and inaccurate localization, RFID tags that are closely spaced together are difficult to detect and program accurately with unique identifiers. This paper investigates several factors that affect the ability to encode a specific tag with unique information in the presence of other tags, such as reader power level, tag-to-antenna distance, tag-to-tag distance and tag orientation. ANOVA results report reader power level and tag spacing, along with effect interactions power level*tag space and tag space*tag orientation to be significant at the levels investigated. Results further suggest a preliminary minimum tag-to-tag spacing which enables the maximum number of tagged items to be uniquely encoded without interference. This finding can significantly speed up the process of field programming in item-level tagging.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joshua Bolton ◽  
Erick Jones ◽  
Raghavendra Kumar Punugu ◽  
Ankan Addy ◽  
Samuel Okate

As the price of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags continues to decrease, more and more companies are considering item-level tagging. Although the use of RFID is simple, its proper application should be studied to achieve maximum efficiency and utilization in the industry. This paper is intended to demonstrate the test results of various multisurface UHF tags from different manufacturers for their readability under varying conditions such as orientation of tags with respect to reader, distance of tag from the reader, and materials used for embedding tags. These conditions could affect the reliability of RFID systems used for varied applications. In this paper, we implement a Design for Six Sigma Research (DFSS-R) methodology that allows for reliability testing of RFID systems. In this paper, we have showcased our results about the benchmarking of UHF RFID tags and have put forward an important observation about the blind spots observed at different distances and orientations along different surfaces, which is primarily due to the polarity of the antenna chosen.


Author(s):  
Luca Catarinucci ◽  
Riccardo Colella ◽  
Mario De Blasi ◽  
Luigi Patrono ◽  
Luciano Tarricone
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 840-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Virkki ◽  
T. Björninen ◽  
T. Kellomäki ◽  
S. Merilampi ◽  
I. Shafiq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Uhf Rfid ◽  

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