Interactive UHF/UWB RFID tag for mass customization

Jue Shen (), Baghaei-Nejad Majid, Li Xie, Jia Mao, Zhibo Pang, Yi Feng, Lida Xu, Hannu Tenhunen, Zhuo Zou and Lirong Zheng
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Jue Shen: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Baghaei-Nejad Majid: Hakim Sabzevari University
Li Xie: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Jia Mao: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Zhibo Pang: ABB AB Corporate Research
Yi Feng: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Lida Xu: Old Dominion University
Hannu Tenhunen: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Zhuo Zou: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Lirong Zheng: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Information Systems Frontiers, 2017, vol. 19, issue 5, No 15, 1177-1190

Abstract: Abstract Mass customization (MC) under the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to reform the traditional mass manufacturing. To contribute to MC from information communication and user interaction aspects, this work proposes an Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) RFID tag with an Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band (IR-UWB) transmitter and an inkjet-printed Electrochromic (EC) display. First, compared to the conventional UHF RFID tags, the proposed tag shows the advantage of higher transmission data rate with still low power consumption. The response time in multi-tag accessing scenarios can be reduced to less than 500 ms per 1000 tags by the pipeline of the tag responses in IR-UWB link and the reader acknowledgments in UHF RFID link as well as by reducing the length of empty slots. Second, the tag is integrated with a flexible EC display manufactured by inkjet-printing on the polyimide substrate. It works as an automatically refreshed paper label that offers an intuitive human-to-device interface to improve the efficiency of the offline workers. To conquer the material variations and make use of the long retention time of the printed EC display, its threshold voltage is utilized and a feedback comparator enabling the display driver by the threshold voltage is designed. A System-on-Chip (SoC) is implemented in UMC 0.18 μm CMOS process. According to the experimental results: 1) the IR-UWB transmitter achieves 1.02 V pulse amplitude and 900 ps pulse duration with 18 pJ/pulse energy consumption; 2) the EC display driver automatically refreshes the display when the image fades out, and consumes 1.98 μW per 1 cm2 display size to retain an image. The UHF/UWB RFID display tag integrated on polyimide substrate is conceptually demonstrated at the end of the paper.

Keywords: Internet-of-Things (IoT); Mass customization (MC); Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) RFID; Impulse-radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB); Inkjet-printed Electrochromic (EC) polyimide display (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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