Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing
This article reviews the recent advances in the field of batteryless near-field communication (NFC) sensors for chemical sensing and biosensing. The commercial availability of low-cost commercial NFC integrated circuits (ICs) and their massive integration in smartphones, used as readers and cloud in...
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| author | Antonio Lazaro Ramon Villarino Marc Lazaro Nicolau Canellas Beatriz Prieto-Simon David Girbau |
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| description | This article reviews the recent advances in the field of batteryless near-field communication (NFC) sensors for chemical sensing and biosensing. The commercial availability of low-cost commercial NFC integrated circuits (ICs) and their massive integration in smartphones, used as readers and cloud interfaces, have aroused great interest in new batteryless NFC sensors. The fact that coil antennas are not importantly affected by the body compared with other wireless sensors based on far-field communications makes this technology suitable for future wearable point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices. This review first compares energy harvesting based on NFC to other energy-harvesting technologies. Next, some practical recommendations for designing and tuning NFC-based tags are described. Power transfer is key because in most cases, the energy harvested has to be stable for several seconds and not contaminated by undesired signals. For this reason, the effect of the dimensions of the coils and the conductivity on the wireless power transfer is thoroughly discussed. In the last part of the review, the state of the art in NFC-based chemical and biosensors is presented. NFC-based tags (or sensor tags) are mainly based on commercial or custom NFC ICs, which are used to harvest the energy from the RF field generated by the smartphone to power the electronics. Low-consumption colorimeters and potentiostats can be integrated into these NFC tags, opening the door to the integration of chemical sensors and biosensors, which can be harvested and read from a smartphone. The smartphone is also used to upload the acquired information to the cloud to facilitate the internet of medical things (IoMT) paradigm. Finally, several chipless sensors recently proposed in the literature as a low-cost alternative for chemical applications are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12a1cb1fba5943089d90961c71ec907c2023-11-19T00:25:00ZengMDPI AGBiosensors2079-63742023-07-0113877510.3390/bios13080775Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and BiosensingAntonio Lazaro0Ramon Villarino1Marc Lazaro2Nicolau Canellas3Beatriz Prieto-Simon4David Girbau5Department of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Electrics and Automatic Control Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, SpainThis article reviews the recent advances in the field of batteryless near-field communication (NFC) sensors for chemical sensing and biosensing. The commercial availability of low-cost commercial NFC integrated circuits (ICs) and their massive integration in smartphones, used as readers and cloud interfaces, have aroused great interest in new batteryless NFC sensors. The fact that coil antennas are not importantly affected by the body compared with other wireless sensors based on far-field communications makes this technology suitable for future wearable point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices. This review first compares energy harvesting based on NFC to other energy-harvesting technologies. Next, some practical recommendations for designing and tuning NFC-based tags are described. Power transfer is key because in most cases, the energy harvested has to be stable for several seconds and not contaminated by undesired signals. For this reason, the effect of the dimensions of the coils and the conductivity on the wireless power transfer is thoroughly discussed. In the last part of the review, the state of the art in NFC-based chemical and biosensors is presented. NFC-based tags (or sensor tags) are mainly based on commercial or custom NFC ICs, which are used to harvest the energy from the RF field generated by the smartphone to power the electronics. Low-consumption colorimeters and potentiostats can be integrated into these NFC tags, opening the door to the integration of chemical sensors and biosensors, which can be harvested and read from a smartphone. The smartphone is also used to upload the acquired information to the cloud to facilitate the internet of medical things (IoMT) paradigm. Finally, several chipless sensors recently proposed in the literature as a low-cost alternative for chemical applications are discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/13/8/775near-field communication (NFC)batterylesspotentiostatelectrochemical sensorpoint-of-carewireless RF energy harvesting |
| spellingShingle | Antonio Lazaro Ramon Villarino Marc Lazaro Nicolau Canellas Beatriz Prieto-Simon David Girbau Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing Biosensors near-field communication (NFC) batteryless potentiostat electrochemical sensor point-of-care wireless RF energy harvesting |
| title | Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing |
| title_full | Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing |
| title_fullStr | Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing |
| title_short | Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing |
| title_sort | recent advances in batteryless nfc sensors for chemical sensing and biosensing |
| topic | near-field communication (NFC) batteryless potentiostat electrochemical sensor point-of-care wireless RF energy harvesting |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/13/8/775 |
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