Paper Info
Title
Reliable UHF Long-Range Textile-Integrated RFID Tag Based on a Compact Flexible Antenna Filament.
Abstract
This paper details the design, fabrication and testing of flexible textile-concealed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags for wearable applications in a smart city/smart building environment. The proposed tag designs aim to reduce the overall footprint, enabling textile integration whilst maintaining the read range. The proposed RFID filament is less than 3.5 mm in width and 100 mm in length. The tag is based on an electrically small (0.0033 lambda 2) high-impedance planar dipole antenna with a tuning loop, maintaining a reflection coefficient less than -21 dB at 915 MHz, when matched to a commercial RFID chip mounted alongside the antenna. The antenna strip and the RFID chip are then encapsulated and integrated in a standard woven textile for wearable applications. The flexible antenna filament demonstrates a 1.8 dBi gain which shows a close agreement with the analytically calculated and numerically simulated gains. The range of the fabricated tags has been measured and a maximum read range of 8.2 m was recorded at 868 MHz Moreover, the tag's maximum calculated range at 915 MHz is 18 m, which is much longer than the commercially available laundry tags of larger length and width, such as Invengo RFID tags. The reliability of the proposed RFID tags has been investigated using a series of tests replicating textile-based use case scenarios which demonstrates its suitability for practical deployment. Washing tests have shown that the textile-integrated encapsulated tags can be read after over 32 washing cycles, and that multiple tags can be read simultaneously while being washed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20123435
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
antenna,electrically-small antennas,E-textiles,impedance matching,Internet of Things,RFID,textile antenna
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahmoud Wagih111.03
Yang Wei200.68
Abiodun Komolafe310.69
Russel Torah411.11
Stephen Beeby572.79