Electromagnetic Soil Characterization for Undergrounded RFID System Implementation

This paper can be divided into two main parts. In the first part, an extensive experimental study for electromagnetic characteristic assessment of different soil samples is presented. In the second part of the paper, a practical verification of the obtained link budget model is performed using a buried metal-backed RFID tag antenna under a 40 cm sand layer. This antenna is designed to operate at 915 MHz with MONZA3 chip. Using Impinj Speedway system the tag antenna could be detected, and its information could be read from different distances of up to more than 2.5 m.