No battery required: Perpetual rfid-enabled wireless sensors for cognitive intelligence applications

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 66-77

  Kim, Sangkil ^a   Mariotti, Chiara ^b   Alimenti, Federico ^b   Mezzanotte, Paolo ^b   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^c   Collado, Ana ^c   Roselli, Luca ^b   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCE; GRAVURE PRINTING; INK-JET PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES; INTERNET-OF-THINGS; LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

INK JET PRINTING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO SYSTEMS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84880523540     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2013.2259398     Document Type: Article

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