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Recent Advances in RFID Sensors and Their Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 13820

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Stephane Rioual

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Lab-STICC, University Brest, CNRS, UMR 6285, F-29200 Brest, France
Interests: RFID sensors; material science; corrosion; sructural Health monitoring

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Applications associated with radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology are currently well beyond their initial identification tasks, and many examples of RFID-based sensors have been reported in the literature. The advantages of this technology include the absence of a battery and its ultra-low cost, leading to many opportunities for developing new sensing applications in several industrial sectors (healthcare, home automation, industry, automotive, military applications, structural health monitoring, etc.).

The development of such sensors can be done within different technologies (i.e., ultra-high-frequency (UHF) and chipless technologies), and implies the realization of specific antennas dedicated to well-defined environments as well as smart sensitive materials compatible with the RFID technology. In this framework, this Special Issue calls for contributions presenting the latest research results on RFID technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following disciplines:

  • New RFID applications;
  • Green technology applied to RFID;
  • Innovative printing techniques in flexible electronics;
  • Smart material processing for RFID sensing applications;
  • Sensitive RF resonators;
  • RFID antennas for complex environments, and for different architectures.

Dr. Stephane Rioual
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • RFID applications
  • RF resonators
  • Flexible electronics

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Flexible, Fully Printable, and Inexpensive Paper-Based Chipless Arabic Alphabet-Based RFID Tags
by Jawad Yousaf, Eqab Almajali, Mahmoud El Najjar, Ahmed Amir, Amir Altaf, Manzoor Elahi, Saqer Saleh Alja’afreh and Hatem Rmili
Sensors 2022, 22(2), 564; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22020564 - 12 Jan 2022
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 3516
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This work presents the design and analysis of newly developed reconfigurable, flexible, inexpensive, optically-controlled, and fully printable chipless Arabic alphabet-based radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The etching of the metallic copper tag strip is performed on a flexible simple thin paper substrate ( [...] Read more.
This work presents the design and analysis of newly developed reconfigurable, flexible, inexpensive, optically-controlled, and fully printable chipless Arabic alphabet-based radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The etching of the metallic copper tag strip is performed on a flexible simple thin paper substrate (ϵr = 2.31) backed by a metallic ground plane. The analysis of investigated tags is performed in CST MWS in the frequency range of 1–12 GHz for the determination of the unique signature resonance characteristics of each tag in terms of its back-scattered horizontal and vertical mono-static radar cross section (RCS). The analysis reflects that each tag has its own unique electromagnetic signature (EMS) due to the changing current distribution of metallic resonator. This EMS of each tag could be used for the robust detection and recognition of all realized 28 Arabic alphabet tags. The study also discusses, for the first time, the effect of the change in font type and size of realized tags on their EMS. The robustness and reliability of the obtained EMS of letter tags is confirmed by comparing the RCS results for selective letter tags using FDTD and MoM numerical methods, which shows very good agreement. The proposed tags could be used for smart internet of things (IoT) and product marketing applications. Full article
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Review of Wireless RFID Strain Sensing Technology in Structural Health Monitoring
by Gang Liu, Qi-Ang Wang, Guiyue Jiao, Pengyuan Dang, Guohao Nie, Zichen Liu and Junyu Sun
Sensors 2023, 23(15), 6925; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23156925 - 3 Aug 2023
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Strain-based condition evaluation has garnered as a crucial method for the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale engineering structures. The use of traditional wired strain sensors becomes tedious and time-consuming due to their complex wiring operation, more workload, and instrumentation cost to collect [...] Read more.
Strain-based condition evaluation has garnered as a crucial method for the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale engineering structures. The use of traditional wired strain sensors becomes tedious and time-consuming due to their complex wiring operation, more workload, and instrumentation cost to collect sufficient data for condition state evaluation, especially for large-scale engineering structures. The advent of wireless and passive RFID technologies with high efficiency and inexpensive hardware equipment has brought a new era of next-generation intelligent strain monitoring systems for engineering structures. Thus, this study systematically summarizes the recent research progress of cutting-edge RFID strain sensing technologies. Firstly, this study introduces the importance of structural health monitoring and strain sensing. Then, RFID technology is demonstrated including RFID technology’s basic working principle and system component composition. Further, the design and application of various kinds of RFID strain sensors in SHM are presented including passive RFID strain sensing technology, active RFID strain sensing technology, semi-passive RFID strain sensing technology, Ultra High-frequency RFID strain sensing technology, chipless RFID strain sensing technology, and wireless strain sensing based on multi-sensory RFID system, etc., expounding their advantages, disadvantages, and application status. To the authors’ knowledge, the study initially provides a systematic comprehensive review of a suite of RFID strain sensing technology that has been developed in recent years within the context of structural health monitoring. Full article
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MIMO Radio Frequency Identification: A Brief Survey
by Majid Alotaibi, Mohsin Murad, Shakir A. H. Alhuthali, Faisal R. Al-Osaimi and Fahd Aldosari
Sensors 2022, 22(11), 4115; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22114115 - 28 May 2022
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In this paper, we briefly look at the latest state-ot-the-art in the domain of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radio frequency identification (RFID) systems while detailing the work done in the domain of anti-collision, range enhancements, bit error rate (BER) improvements and security. Various passive [...] Read more.
In this paper, we briefly look at the latest state-ot-the-art in the domain of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radio frequency identification (RFID) systems while detailing the work done in the domain of anti-collision, range enhancements, bit error rate (BER) improvements and security. Various passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID implementations are considered that employ multiple antennas at the reader and single or multiple antennas at each tag. We look at several recent works those explored MIMO for RFID receivers. When using MIMO at the backscatter channel, significant improvements can be achieved in the BER as well as range extension. With the extra reliability and increased throughput, such systems can be deployed in many important applications like large tag reading scenarios and accurate tracking. Increased throughput is directly dependent on estimation of tag quantity in a bulk reading environment and usually estimators designed for single antenna systems under-perform in such settings causing low signal to noise ratio (SNR) when employed in MIMO systems where tag signal overlapping can happen more often. One of the key challenges is to keep the design of the RFID tag simple, cutting cost and power requirement when employing anti-collision schemes. We provide a brief survey in some of the recent developments related to MIMO RFID systems, the protocols and algorithms used, and improvements achieved. Full article
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