A solar powered 24 GHz RFID sensor node for industrial applications

authored by: Bernd Geck, Quang Huy Dao, Bernard Luers
Abstract: The fundamental construction of a sensor node working in the 24 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical band (ISM) is presented. A brief overview of the electrical and technological design ideas is given. A small high efficiency solar cell is used for continuously powering the system allowing nonstop data logging of sensor data. The wireless read out procedure is accomplished by back scatter modulation of the reader signal, a communication principle which is well known from traditional Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems [1]. For the mechanical design a stacked structure is used which combines the digital circuit, the analog radio frequency (RF) circuit and the solar cell in a molded interconnect device (3D-MID). The radio frontend is placed above the solar cell and is optically transparent due to a lattice structure of the microstrip lines and the antenna. The overall dimensions of the sensor node which can be integrated into a metallic object too, are 13 × 13 × 4 mm³.
Organisation(s): Institute of Microwave and Wireless Systems
Type: Conference contribution
Publication date: 05.12.2016
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1109/RADIO.2016.7772033 (Access: Closed)
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BibTeX

@inproceedings{7e77391fd3394c9680f959a04d5990b0,
title = "A solar powered 24 GHz RFID sensor node for industrial applications",
abstract = "The fundamental construction of a sensor node working in the 24 GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical band (ISM) is presented. A brief overview of the electrical and technological design ideas is given. A small high efficiency solar cell is used for continuously powering the system allowing nonstop data logging of sensor data. The wireless read out procedure is accomplished by back scatter modulation of the reader signal, a communication principle which is well known from traditional Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems [1]. For the mechanical design a stacked structure is used which combines the digital circuit, the analog radio frequency (RF) circuit and the solar cell in a molded interconnect device (3D-MID). The radio frontend is placed above the solar cell and is optically transparent due to a lattice structure of the microstrip lines and the antenna. The overall dimensions of the sensor node which can be integrated into a metallic object too, are 13 × 13 × 4 mm3.",
author = "Bernd Geck and Dao, {Quang Huy} and Bernard Luers",
year = "2016",
month = dec,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1109/RADIO.2016.7772033",
language = "English",
series = "2016 IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean, RADIO 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean, RADIO 2016",
address = "United States",
note = "2016 IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean, RADIO 2016 ; Conference date: 10-10-2016 Through 13-10-2016",
}