A wireless sensor readout system-circuit concept, simulation, and accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2976-2983

  Nopper, Reinhard ^a   Has, Remigius ^a   Reindl, Leonhard ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance transducers; inductive coupling; LC circuits; remote sensing; resonance detection; telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANALOG FRONT-END; ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCERS; DC VOLTAGE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNALS; DRIVING SIGNAL; ELECTRONIC READ-OUT SYSTEMS; GENERAL MODEL; INDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; LC CIRCUITS; LC RESONATORS; LC SENSOR; LINEAR FITTING; LINEARIZATION ERRORS; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; NOISE SENSITIVITY; PASSIVE SENSOR; QUALITY FACTORS; RESONANCE CURVES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SENSOR CIRCUIT; SENSOR PARAMETER; SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; VOLTAGE NOISE; VOLTAGE SIGNALS; WIRELESS MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVE SENSORS; LINEARIZATION; MEASUREMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; READOUT SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 79960385414     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2122110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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