Modeling, design and experimentation of wearable RFID sensor tag

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2490-2498

  Occhiuzzi, Cecilia ^a   Cippitelli, Stefano ^b   Marrocco, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antennas; biomedical applications of electromagnetic radiation; biomedical telemetry; transponders

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; CONTINUOUS TRACKING; CREDIT CARDS; DETUNINGS; EFFICIENCY DEGRADATION; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; PASSIVE MOTION; RFID SENSORS; STRONG INTERACTION; UHF RFID;

DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSORS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; TRANSPONDERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77955436407     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050435     Document Type: Article

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