Remote moisture sensing utilizing ordinary RFID tags

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 308-311

  Sidén, Johan ^a   Zeng, Xuezhi ^a,b   Unander, Tomas ^a,c   Koptyug, Andrey ^d   Nilsson, Hans Erik ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCA Research AB   (Sweden)

^d Sensible Solutions Sweden AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; METEOROLOGY; MOBILE PHONES; MOISTURE; RADIO NAVIGATION; SENSORS;

BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; HUMID ENVIRONMENTS; IN BUILDINGS; INFINITE LIVES; INPUT IMPEDANCES; MOISTURE CONCENTRATIONS; MOISTURE DETECTIONS; MOISTURE SENSORS; OUTPUT POWERS; PASSIVE SYSTEMS; POWER SUPPLIES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RFID READERS; RFID SYSTEMS; RFID TAGS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENTS; TYPICAL APPLICATIONS; WATER PIPES;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 48349112137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2007.4388398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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