RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill?
Liquid level detection in customer beverage glasses and liquor bottles in the service industry is important for maintaining quality of service and good approval ratings. Current sensing approaches rely either on visual inspection or expensive sensor electronics to detect liquid levels. In this study...
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| author | Bhattacharyya, Rahul Floerkemeier, Christian Sarma, Sanjay E |
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| description | Liquid level detection in customer beverage glasses and liquor bottles in the service industry is important for maintaining quality of service and good approval ratings. Current sensing approaches rely either on visual inspection or expensive sensor electronics to detect liquid levels. In this study, we investigate how the paradigm of RFID tag antenna based sensing can be used as a low-cost alternative in the service industry, to detect the volume of liquid in a beverage glass by mapping a change in RSSI power measurements from RFID tags to the level of liquid in the glass. We demonstrate that this sensing technique when deployed in a real restaurant-like setting can be used to accurately predict the state of the glass over 80% of the time, and thus has good potential as a low-cost sensing methodology for applications in the restaurant industry. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/802692022-10-01T18:49:53Z RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? Bhattacharyya, Rahul Floerkemeier, Christian Sarma, Sanjay E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Bhattacharyya, Rahul Floerkemeier, Christian Sarma, Sanjay Emani Liquid level detection in customer beverage glasses and liquor bottles in the service industry is important for maintaining quality of service and good approval ratings. Current sensing approaches rely either on visual inspection or expensive sensor electronics to detect liquid levels. In this study, we investigate how the paradigm of RFID tag antenna based sensing can be used as a low-cost alternative in the service industry, to detect the volume of liquid in a beverage glass by mapping a change in RSSI power measurements from RFID tags to the level of liquid in the glass. We demonstrate that this sensing technique when deployed in a real restaurant-like setting can be used to accurately predict the state of the glass over 80% of the time, and thus has good potential as a low-cost sensing methodology for applications in the restaurant industry. 2013-08-23T16:43:09Z 2013-08-23T16:43:09Z 2010-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4244-5742-7 INSPEC Accession Number: 11309205 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80269 Bhattacharyya, Rahul, Christian Floerkemeier, and Sanjay Sarma. RFID Tag Antenna Based Sensing: Does Your Beverage Glass Need a Refill? In 2010 IEEE International Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID 2010), 126-133. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010. © Copyright 2010 IEEE. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-039X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2010.5467235 2010 IEEE International Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID 2010) Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Bhattacharyya, Rahul Floerkemeier, Christian Sarma, Sanjay E RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title | RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title_full | RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title_fullStr | RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title_full_unstemmed | RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title_short | RFID tag antenna based sensing: Does your beverage glass need a refill? |
| title_sort | rfid tag antenna based sensing does your beverage glass need a refill |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80269 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-039X |
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