Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications
In this work, two fully-textile wearable devices, to be used as chipless identification tags in identification and tracking applications are presented. For the fabrication of the fully-textile tags, a layer of fleece was used as a substrate, while an adhesive non-woven conductive fabric was employed...
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| author | Laura Corchia Giuseppina Monti Egidio De Benedetto Andrea Cataldo Leopoldo Angrisani Pasquale Arpaia Luciano Tarricone |
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| description | In this work, two fully-textile wearable devices, to be used as chipless identification tags in identification and tracking applications are presented. For the fabrication of the fully-textile tags, a layer of fleece was used as a substrate, while an adhesive non-woven conductive fabric was employed for the conductive parts. To allow radio-frequency identification of these chipless tags, two alternative techniques were used. One relies on associating a binary code with the resonance frequency of resonant devices: the presence/absence of the resonance peaks in the transmission scattering parameter, <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mrow> <mrow> <mo>|</mo> </mrow> <msub> <mi>S</mi> <mn>21</mn> </msub> <mrow> <mo>|</mo> </mrow> </mrow> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula>, of a set of resonators is used to encode a string of bits. The second technique for accomplishing radio-frequency identification of the chipless tags resorts to a frequency-shift coding technique, which is implemented by modifying the configuration of a hairpin resonator. The obtained numerical and experimental results confirm the suitability of the proposed strategies for obtaining entirely-textile, wearable chipless tags for identification and tracking purposes, which can be particularly useful, especially in the industrial sector. In this field, in fact, the proposed solutions would guarantee a seamless integration with clothes and would facilitate the user’s interaction with the IoT infrastructure. In this regard, one of the envisaged application scenarios related to the tracking of hides in the leather industry is also presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be962ede64c14a54a4f8d0659390ae582022-12-22T02:53:01ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-01-0120242910.3390/s20020429s20020429Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking ApplicationsLaura Corchia0Giuseppina Monti1Egidio De Benedetto2Andrea Cataldo3Leopoldo Angrisani4Pasquale Arpaia5Luciano Tarricone6Department of Engineering for Innovation, Complesso Ecotekne-Corpo O, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyDepartment of Engineering for Innovation, Complesso Ecotekne-Corpo O, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Engineering for Innovation, Complesso Ecotekne-Corpo O, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDepartment of Engineering for Innovation, Complesso Ecotekne-Corpo O, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyIn this work, two fully-textile wearable devices, to be used as chipless identification tags in identification and tracking applications are presented. For the fabrication of the fully-textile tags, a layer of fleece was used as a substrate, while an adhesive non-woven conductive fabric was employed for the conductive parts. To allow radio-frequency identification of these chipless tags, two alternative techniques were used. One relies on associating a binary code with the resonance frequency of resonant devices: the presence/absence of the resonance peaks in the transmission scattering parameter, <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mrow> <mrow> <mo>|</mo> </mrow> <msub> <mi>S</mi> <mn>21</mn> </msub> <mrow> <mo>|</mo> </mrow> </mrow> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula>, of a set of resonators is used to encode a string of bits. The second technique for accomplishing radio-frequency identification of the chipless tags resorts to a frequency-shift coding technique, which is implemented by modifying the configuration of a hairpin resonator. The obtained numerical and experimental results confirm the suitability of the proposed strategies for obtaining entirely-textile, wearable chipless tags for identification and tracking purposes, which can be particularly useful, especially in the industrial sector. In this field, in fact, the proposed solutions would guarantee a seamless integration with clothes and would facilitate the user’s interaction with the IoT infrastructure. In this regard, one of the envisaged application scenarios related to the tracking of hides in the leather industry is also presented.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/2/429chipless tagfrequency shiftidentificationiotmicrowave resonatorstextiletrackingwearable |
| spellingShingle | Laura Corchia Giuseppina Monti Egidio De Benedetto Andrea Cataldo Leopoldo Angrisani Pasquale Arpaia Luciano Tarricone Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications Sensors chipless tag frequency shift identification iot microwave resonators textile tracking wearable |
| title | Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications |
| title_full | Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications |
| title_fullStr | Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications |
| title_short | Fully-Textile, Wearable Chipless Tags for Identification and Tracking Applications |
| title_sort | fully textile wearable chipless tags for identification and tracking applications |
| topic | chipless tag frequency shift identification iot microwave resonators textile tracking wearable |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/2/429 |
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