Title
How Manufacturers Can Easily Improve Working Range of Passive RFIDs
Abstract
Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology permits a reader to wirelessly query a tag for its embedded globally unique identifier. Passive RFID tags, which are small, low-cost (a few cents each), and batteryless, can be reliably read only when they are within a few meters of the reader since the tag must power up itself by harvesting energy from the reader. Past work attempts to increase the RFID range by providing them with more energy, such as by synchronizing multiple custom design RFID readers and performing beamforming. However, we demonstrate that a passive tag's range is limited not only by the need for the tag to harvest energy but also by the need for the tag to decode the reader's transmission, and vice versa. Thus, instead of modifying readers, we ask if a tag's manufacturer can increase passive RFIDs' range by lowering the data rate. Our results show that the working range can be increased by a factor of about 10 by simply using a low data rate. Our real-world experiments using customized tag prototypes have a range of ~40 m, with an SNR exceeding 12 dB.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/SECON55815.2022.9918572
2022 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
RFID,Long Range,Bit Rate,Decoding Ability
Conference
2155-5486
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-8644-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ju Wang115115.56
Liqiong Chang200.34
Omid Abari319317.94
Srinivasan Keshav43778761.32