Title
A low-power baseband modem architecture for a mobile RFID reader
Abstract
Currently the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) systems become used in many areas, especially for delivery, manufacturing, and maintenance of goods. For example, a tag reader or a tag interrogator communicates with tags attached on goods, reads their identification codes, and accesses their related database through a network infrastructure. This approach makes it easy to maintain goods very efficiently in large-scale markets, delivery systems, and so on. There are many research activities in RFID systems for industrial applications, but there is few on mobile and portable devices such as cellular phones and PDAs. This paper presents an architecture overview of a multi-protocol RFID reader on mobile devices with detailed description of hardware implementation. We have considered several design parameters, such as low power consumption, cost effectiveness and flexibility. Also, since our architecture supports WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), any WIPI application can use our RFID reader's functionalities to query tags' information from Internet through HAL interfaces. We prototyped our system on the ARM-based Excalibur FPGA with iPAQ PDA, and also a chip with 0.18~um technology for verification of our architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3233/JEC-2009-0086
J. Embedded Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile device,ubiquitous computing,rfid
Mobile RFID,Computer science,Interoperability,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Mobile device,Ubiquitous computing,WIPI,Radio-frequency identification,Embedded system,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
3
2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seok Joong Hwang1348.53
Joon Goo Lee262.43
Seon Wook Kim319434.65
Jihun Koo463.46
WooShik Kang571.36