LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
The idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and...
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| author | Mariusz Węglarski Piotr Jankowski-Mihułowicz Grzegorz Pitera Dominik Jurków Mateusz Dorczyński |
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| description | The idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and increasing availability of low power electronics in order to get rid of the need to use electrochemical cells in a power supply unit of the elaborated device. To reach this assumption, special care has to be put on the energy balance in such an autonomous sensor node. First of all, the new concept of an electromagnetic LTCC turbine transducer with a signal conditioner which only draws a current of around 15 µA, is proposed for measuring a flow rate of fluids. Next, the autonomy of the device is showed; measured data are gathered in a microcontroller memory and sent to a control unit via an RFID interface which enables both information exchange and power transfer. The energy harvested from the electromagnetic field is used to conduct a data transmission, but also its excess can be accumulated, so the proposed sensor operates as a semi-passive transponder. The total autonomy of the device is achieved by implementing a second harvester that continually gathers energy from the environmental electromagnetic field of common active radio systems (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), wireless network Wi-Fi). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3916b77bec224e619b428ad94fe2a97e2022-12-22T04:01:07ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-01-0120126810.3390/s20010268s20010268LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID InterfaceMariusz Węglarski0Piotr Jankowski-Mihułowicz1Grzegorz Pitera2Dominik Jurków3Mateusz Dorczyński4Department of Electronic and Telecommunications Systems, Rzeszów University of Technology, Wincentego Pola 2, 35-959 Rzeszów, PolandDepartment of Electronic and Telecommunications Systems, Rzeszów University of Technology, Wincentego Pola 2, 35-959 Rzeszów, PolandDepartment of Electronic and Telecommunications Systems, Rzeszów University of Technology, Wincentego Pola 2, 35-959 Rzeszów, PolandFaculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wrocław University of Technology, Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-372 Wrocław, PolandFaculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wrocław University of Technology, Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-372 Wrocław, PolandThe idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and increasing availability of low power electronics in order to get rid of the need to use electrochemical cells in a power supply unit of the elaborated device. To reach this assumption, special care has to be put on the energy balance in such an autonomous sensor node. First of all, the new concept of an electromagnetic LTCC turbine transducer with a signal conditioner which only draws a current of around 15 µA, is proposed for measuring a flow rate of fluids. Next, the autonomy of the device is showed; measured data are gathered in a microcontroller memory and sent to a control unit via an RFID interface which enables both information exchange and power transfer. The energy harvested from the electromagnetic field is used to conduct a data transmission, but also its excess can be accumulated, so the proposed sensor operates as a semi-passive transponder. The total autonomy of the device is achieved by implementing a second harvester that continually gathers energy from the environmental electromagnetic field of common active radio systems (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), wireless network Wi-Fi).https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/1/268rfidltccenergy harvestingintelligent sensorrfid tagsemi-passive transponderthick-film sensorwireless sensor network |
| spellingShingle | Mariusz Węglarski Piotr Jankowski-Mihułowicz Grzegorz Pitera Dominik Jurków Mateusz Dorczyński LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface Sensors rfid ltcc energy harvesting intelligent sensor rfid tag semi-passive transponder thick-film sensor wireless sensor network |
| title | LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface |
| title_full | LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface |
| title_fullStr | LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface |
| title_full_unstemmed | LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface |
| title_short | LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface |
| title_sort | ltcc flow sensor with rfid interface |
| topic | rfid ltcc energy harvesting intelligent sensor rfid tag semi-passive transponder thick-film sensor wireless sensor network |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/1/268 |
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