Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors, integrating the features of Wireless Information and Power Transfer (WIPT), object identification and energy efficient sensing capabilities, have been considered a new paradigm of sensing and communication for the futuristic information systems. RFID se...
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| author | Lei Cui Zonghua Zhang Nan Gao Zhaozong Meng Zhen Li |
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| description | Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors, integrating the features of Wireless Information and Power Transfer (WIPT), object identification and energy efficient sensing capabilities, have been considered a new paradigm of sensing and communication for the futuristic information systems. RFID sensor tags featuring contactless sensing, wireless information transfer, wireless powered, light weight, non-line-of-sight transmission, flexible and pasteable are a critical enabling technology for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture and food. They have attracted numerous research efforts due to their innovative potential in the various application fields. However, there has been a gap between the in-lab investigations and the practical IoT application scenarios, which has motivated this survey of this research to identify the promising enabling techniques and the underlying challenges. This study aims to provide an exhaustive review on the state-of-art RFID sensor technologies from the system implementation perspective by focusing on the fundamental RF energy harvesting theories, the recent technical progresses and commercial solutions, innovative applications and some RFID sensor based IoT solutions, identify the underlying technological challenges at the time being, and give the future research trends and promising application fields in the rich sensing applications of the forthcoming IoT era. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9434d63f861b4083a9440aaeea78f77c2022-12-22T02:55:42ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-09-011918401210.3390/s19184012s19184012Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-ArtLei Cui0Zonghua Zhang1Nan Gao2Zhaozong Meng3Zhen Li4School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, ChinaCollege of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, ChinaRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors, integrating the features of Wireless Information and Power Transfer (WIPT), object identification and energy efficient sensing capabilities, have been considered a new paradigm of sensing and communication for the futuristic information systems. RFID sensor tags featuring contactless sensing, wireless information transfer, wireless powered, light weight, non-line-of-sight transmission, flexible and pasteable are a critical enabling technology for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture and food. They have attracted numerous research efforts due to their innovative potential in the various application fields. However, there has been a gap between the in-lab investigations and the practical IoT application scenarios, which has motivated this survey of this research to identify the promising enabling techniques and the underlying challenges. This study aims to provide an exhaustive review on the state-of-art RFID sensor technologies from the system implementation perspective by focusing on the fundamental RF energy harvesting theories, the recent technical progresses and commercial solutions, innovative applications and some RFID sensor based IoT solutions, identify the underlying technological challenges at the time being, and give the future research trends and promising application fields in the rich sensing applications of the forthcoming IoT era.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/18/4012radio frequency energy harvestingradio frequency identification (RFID)RFID sensorinductive couplingbackscattering |
| spellingShingle | Lei Cui Zonghua Zhang Nan Gao Zhaozong Meng Zhen Li Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art Sensors radio frequency energy harvesting radio frequency identification (RFID) RFID sensor inductive coupling backscattering |
| title | Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art |
| title_full | Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art |
| title_fullStr | Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art |
| title_full_unstemmed | Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art |
| title_short | Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing Techniques and Their Applications—A Review of the State-of-the-Art |
| title_sort | radio frequency identification and sensing techniques and their applications a review of the state of the art |
| topic | radio frequency energy harvesting radio frequency identification (RFID) RFID sensor inductive coupling backscattering |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/18/4012 |
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