A 22-m Operation Range Semi-Passive UHF RFID Sensor Tag With Flexible Thermoelectric Energy Harvester
This article presents a wireless temperature sensor tag able to work in both fully passive mode and in semi-passive mode when assisted by a flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG). The sensor tag consists of an EPC C1G2/ISO 18000-6C ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) int...
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Published in | IEEE sensors journal Vol. 22; no. 20; pp. 19797 - 19808 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
15.10.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | This article presents a wireless temperature sensor tag able to work in both fully passive mode and in semi-passive mode when assisted by a flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG). The sensor tag consists of an EPC C1G2/ISO 18000-6C ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) integrated circuit (IC) connected to a low-power microcontroller unit (MCU) that samples and collects the temperature from a digital temperature sensor. With a temperature gradient as low as 2.5 °C, the test results show that the TEG provides an output power of 400 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\mu </tex-math></inline-formula>W with an output voltage of 40mV. Bymeans of an up-converter in order to boost the TEG output voltage, this harvester supplies the power required to the sensor tag for a 2-conv/s data rate in semi-passive mode. Moreover, when the tag operates in semi-passive mode, a communication range of 22.2 m is measured for a 2-W effective radiated power (ERP) reader. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed TEG-assisted sensor tag shows the longest communication range and the only one that provides stable external power at low-temperature gradients. The measured performance and the chosen architecture allow using the wireless sensor in multiple industrial or biomedical applications. |
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ISSN: | 1530-437X 1558-1748 |
DOI: | 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3202634 |