Low-cost, ubiquitous RFID-tag-antenna-based sensing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1593-1600

  Bhattacharyya, Rahul ^a   Floerkemeier, Christian ^a   Sarma, Sanjay ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low cost sensing; radio frequency identification (RFID); tag antenna impedance changes; ubiquitous sensing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADIO WAVES; WELL TESTING;

CRITICAL THRESHOLD; LOW COSTS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RFID TAG ANTENNAS; SENSING MECHANISM; TAG ANTENNA; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS; UBIQUITOUS SENSING;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 77956055985     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2051790     Document Type: Article

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