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Locatable, Sensor-Enabled Multistandard RFID Tags

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Advances in Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 64))

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This chapter covers all aspects that have to be considered for building highly efficient passive RFID tags with special abilities. Within a concrete project we are currently implementing such a tag. Besides the mandatory RF frontend and digital baseband processing it incorporates functionalities for multistandard communication, localization and sensing. Ultra low-power techniques enable these circuits to be implemented in a single chip without any other power supply than the RF field. The possibility to produce such RFID tags in high volumes and at low costs is a main objective of our project. Manifold monitoring solutions would profit from maintenancefree and ubiquitous sensor-data acquisition with position information using cheap, disposable RFID tags.

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  1. Institute for Electronics Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

    D. Brenk, J. Essel, J. Heidrich & R. Weigel

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    Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Henry Leung

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Brenk, D., Essel, J., Heidrich, J., Weigel, R. (2010). Locatable, Sensor-Enabled Multistandard RFID Tags. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Leung, H. (eds) Advances in Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12707-6_6

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