手持式RFID读写器网络接口设计

为适应RFID读写器在不同应用系统中的要求,开发了一种以MSP430F149单片机为核心的具有嵌入式以太网网络接口的手持式RFID读写器。文中介绍RFID读写器中单片机与以太网控制器RTL8139组成的网络接口设计方法,实现了手持式RFID读写器接入Internet网络进行数据通信。     

Virtual Private Networks [Guest Editorial]

Handheld radio frequency identification reader units become increasingly important with the adoption of passive ultra-high frequency RFID systems in supply chain, warehouse, and retail store management. Important requirements for the handheld reader unit are ergonomic size and weight, sufficient battery life, and suitable read range for the desired applications. In addition, usability of the reader unit in terms of reading directions and orientations of tags has to be taken into account. This article presents a performance comparison of compact reader antennas for a handheld UHF RFID reader unit. The reader antennas presented in this study are designed to be affixed either inside the casing of the reader unit or into an external reader antenna module. The presented antenna designs have been optimized with finite element method modeling. The resonance frequency and bandwidth characteristics are analyzed using modeled and measured results. Read range measurement results with the antenna designs affixed to the handheld reader are presented and analyzed to verify the practical performance. All the antenna designs presented in this article are applicable to a handheld RFID reader unit     

RFID-based localization with Non-Blocking tag scanning

The simple and cheap passive RFID tag systems have recently been used for efficient localization of indoor mobile robots, where each RFID tag stores its own absolute position and the mobile robot carrying an RFID reader scans the RFID tags to localize itself. The available localization schemes using passive RFID systems do not consider the scanning delay which may cause location estimation error, especially when the robot moves at a high speed. In this paper, a new Non-Blocking scanning (reading) scheme is proposed to avoid collisions so that the scanning delay, and consequently the localization error, can be reduced. This scheme avoids collisions among tag replies by assigning tag IDs based on the FCA coloring scheme. Theoretical and simulation studies indicate that the new Non-Blocking scheme combined with the new tag arrangement pattern can achieve a good RFID localization performance in terms of both estimation error and scanning delay with reduction of tag/reader required complexities.     

A low-cost wireless sensors positioning solution for indoor parking facilities management

A relatively low-cost system for indoor parking facilities management is proposed, which is a combined solution of RFID/WiFi and a MEMS IMU monitoring scheme. An RFID localisation module is proposed in the form of so-called virtual gates. To define such virtual gates, either RFID tags or readers are placed at known locations throughout the area of interest. In this study, a number of tags are fixed at known positions and a moving reader is carried by each participating vehicle. Based on this configuration set-up, the Cell of Origin (CoO) technique is applied, in which the system indicates the presence of the user carrying the reader in a cell around the tag location. To define a virtual gate, tags are installed along the parking lot corridors and at critical transit passages in the parking facility. The CoO technique is also proposed in the case of WiFi for location determination of vehicles in a multi-storey car park. In this study, WiFi is employed to monitor the passing vehicles and bridge the gap until a tag can detect a user’s reader again. Thus, a combined positioning solution of RFID and WiFi is achieved. As a complement to the proposed RFID/WiFi system, this study examines the potential and limitations of MEMS IMU sensors (i.e. accelerometers, gyroscopes and barometers) commonly found in modern smartphones. The paper concludes with a detailed discussion on the implications of alternative positioning techniques for indoor parking management.     

基于信息位编码的自适应搜索RFID防碰撞算法研究

无线射频识别（RFID）技术可实现对目标物体的自动识别.为了减少对物体标签识别时间,提出一种基于信息位编码的自适应搜索的防碰撞（AS）算法.读写器充分利用碰撞位信息,要求标签返回碰撞位编码信息,进而自适应地生成有效查询前缀,对标签进行无空闲时隙识别,以减少查询次数,提高算法的性能.此外,AS算法也解决了读写器与标签通信中传输信息冗余等问题.本文通过理论分析证明了该算法的有效性,其中吞吐率的理论值与实验值的误差不超过5%,还从时间复杂度和通信复杂度对该算法进行了详细地分析.仿真结果表明：AS算法不仅提高了系统的性能,而且还降低了标签能量的消耗.特别是当标签数为1000时,该算法的吞吐率仍保持在61%左右,比查询树算法和自适应多叉树算法的系统效率分别提高了72%和20.1%左右.     

Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Passive RFID in Indoor Environment

This paper proposes an efficient method for localization and pose estimation for mobile robot navigation using passive radio-frequency identification (RFID). We assume that the robot is able to identify IC tags and measure the robot's pose based on the relation between the previous and current location according to the IC tags. However, there arises the problem of uncertainty of location due to the nature of the antenna and IC tags. In other words, an error is always present which is relative to the sensing area of the antenna. Many researches have used external sensors in order to reduce the location errors, with few researches presented involving purely RFID driven systems. Our proposed algorithm that uses only passive RFID is able to estimate the robot's location and orientation more precisely by using trigonometric functions and the IC tags' Cartesian coordinates in a regular gridlike pattern. The experimental results show that the proposed method effectively estimates both the location and the pose of a mobile robot during navigation.      

基于RFID标签的定位原理和技术

识别和定位是用于室内服务的关键信息,常见方法是估计RFID标签的位置。而在室内环境下,信号遭受严重的损耗,标签的性能也会受到一定的限制。针对这些问题,文中对现存的RFID定位技术和定位原理加以总结,在对RFID定位技术进行阐释和分类分析的基础上,讨论了在此领域的未来发展趋势。     

Integrating RFID and WLAN for indoor positioning and IP movement detection

Location awareness in an indoor environment and wireless access to Internet applications are major research areas towards the overwhelming success of wireless and mobile communications. However, the unpredictable indoor radio propagation and handover latency due to node mobility are the main challenging issues that need to be addressed. For tackling efficiently both problems of indoor localization and handover management, we propose combining key benefits of two outstanding wireless technologies, i.e. radio frequency identification (RFID) and a wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure. WLANs, such as IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), are now very common in many indoor environments for providing wireless communication among WiFi-enabled devices by accessing an Access Point (infrastructure mode) or through peer to peer connections (ad hoc mode). However, the small cell size of the Access Points (APs) in a WiFi-based network drives the need for frequent handovers leading to increased latency. RFID is an emerging technology consisting of two basic components, a tag and a reader, and its main purpose is the automatic identification of tagged objects by a reader. However, in the presence of multiple readers, RFID suffers from the so-called reader collision problem, mainly due to the inability for direct communication among them. In this paper, we propose a hybrid RFID and WLAN system; the RFID technology is employed for collecting information that is used for both localization and handover management within the WLAN, whereas the WLAN itself is utilized for controlling and coordinating the RFID reading process. In our system architecture, tag IDs of a RFID tag deployment are correlated with both location and topology information in order to determine the position and predict the next subnetwork of a Mobile Node (MN) with a reader attached to its mobile device. The role of the WLAN is to coordinate the readers when accessing the RFID channel for retrieving tags?? IDs, hence compensating the persisting RFID collision problem among multiple readers. Numerical results based on extensive simulations validate the efficiency of the proposed hybrid system in providing accurate and time efficient localization and reducing the IP handover latency.     

自调整混合树RFID多标签防碰撞算法

在RFID系统中,阅读器读取标签的效率与解决标签发生碰撞的方法密切相关.目前采用多叉树查询是一种较好的多标签防碰撞方法.它能减少碰撞时隙,再通过额外的查询来减少空闲时隙.但额外的查询也增加了新的开销.本文提出了一个自调整混合树RFID多标签防碰撞算法,该算法根据最高两个碰撞位的特征,在不增加额外查询的条件下,自调整搜索树的叉数,从而避免了一些碰撞时隙和空闲时隙.通过对算法的性能分析和仿真结果可以看到,自调整混合树RFID多标签防碰撞算法具有较少的时间复杂度和通信复杂度,识别效率也明显高于其他多叉树算法.     

标准CMOS工艺光电二极管及光标签的研制

提出了一种作为无源射频(RFID)识别标签电源的光电二极管。此方案采用光电转换获取能量的方式替代传统电磁辐射获得能量的方式,克服了传统方案中RFID读写器辐射强且RFID Tag抗干扰能力差的缺点。光电二极管采用标准UMC 0.18μm CMOS工艺制作在RFID Tag上。研究了光电二极管的光伏及伏安特性,并给出了实验结果;使用低压测试电路对制作完毕的PD进行了功率输出性能实验,实验结果证明PD满足设计指标和后续电路的使用要求;对实验数据进行系统建模和参数估计,建立了可以应用于Cadence仿真环境的光电二极管模型;最后,利用仿真模型进行光标签的设计,流片测试结果证明了光标签的可行性。     

Performance Analysis of Tags Collection Time on A New Architecture of 2.4 GHz Embedded Active RFID System for Indoor and Outdoor Tracking and Monitoring Applications Based on IEEE 802.15.4 Standard

This paper focuses on the analysis of tags collection time of 2.4 GHz embedded active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system for indoor and outdoor real-time tracking and monitoring applications based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The main novelty of the system is the implementation of the communication method in order to provide Machine to Machine (M2M) communication and automated switching mechanism between indoor and outdoor location by utilizing active RFID, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile communication on a single platform. In this work, GPS receiver covers outdoor location tracking, while active RFID provides identification and Receive Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) reading for each tag holder to cover indoor location tracking especially near or inside building where location information is not detected by GPS. Several experiments were conducted on three different RFID tags which were active RFID tag embedded with GPS and GSM (ERFIDG2), active RFID tag embedded with GPS (ERFIDG) and standalone RFID tag communicating with the same active RFID reader. The experiment was done to evaluate the communication performance of the active RFID in terms of tags collection time using Transparent (AT) and Application Programming Interface (API) mode. The experiment was extended to measure tags collection time in single hop and multi hops communication for Tag Talk First (TTF) and Reader Talk First (RTF) protocols. The results show that the proposed active RFID system (ERFIDG2) is better than the standalone and ERFIDG systems. The in-depth research done in this work is to study the experience and identify the challenges that will be faced in the development and implementation of a wireless RFID-based system for tracking and monitoring applications.     

一种减少通信复杂度的RFID搜索树防碰撞算法

针对射频识别搜索树防碰撞算法中通信数据量大、识别时延长等问题,提出了一种减少通信复杂度的防碰撞算法.在标签中引入前缀长度寄存器和响应标志寄存器,在阅读器堆栈区存储前缀个数信息,阅读器通过发送前缀长度信息,对标签进行分类搜索,阅读器和标签不再发送对方已经识别的序列号,有效减少了通信数据量.仿真结果表明,与传统的二叉树搜索防碰撞算法相比,该算法可明显减少系统通信复杂度,提高标签的搜索速率.     

声表面波射频识别阅读器的设计

论述了基于DSP技术的声表面波射频识别(SAW RFID)阅读器的设计方法.在此基础上给出了阅读器的硬件设计和与多个标签识别的流程图.最后对标签的反碰撞问题进行了研究.     

基于无线信道指纹的室内位置感应系统分析(英文)

This paper reviews and analyses various simplified-RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) indoor location systems, and proposes an improved implementation based on the propagation channel "fingerprinting" principle. The focus of the design aims to provide accurate location estimation, while minimising infrastructural requirements. The proposed approach is based on the LANDMARC (Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID) with Virtual Reference tags (VIRE) and implemented with dynamic linear interpolation and ...     

一种类二进制搜索的RFID系统反碰撞算法及其实现

在RFID系统解决多标签碰撞的问题中，为了避开阅读器必须准确同步所有标签的困难从而使得设计更加容易实现，介绍了典型的二进制搜索算法的原理，在此基础上提出了一种类二进制搜索的反碰撞算法，并对该算法的性能进行了分析。性能分析表明该算法也满足实际应用的需要。最后，给出了算法的软件实现。     

基于牛顿插值的RFID室内定位算法

随着近年无线网络的发展,出现了多种与室内定位相关的技术与应用。文中提出了一种基于牛顿插值的室内定位算法。该算法主要是基于射频识别技术(RFID)并结合Larndmarc系统利用插值求解虚拟的标签,从而对待测标签得到更精确地定位。实验证明,与k邻域算法相比,该算法在定位精度上得到了显著提高。     

Optimization of an RFID location identification scheme based on the neural network

An indoor localization technology is increasingly critical as location‐aware applications evolve. Researchers have proposed several indoor localization technologies. Because most of the proposed indoor localization technologies simply involve using the received signal strength indicator value of radio‐frequency identification (RFID) for indoor localization, radio‐frequency interference, and environmental factors often limit the accuracy of localization results. Therefore, this study proposes an accurate RFID localization based on the neural network (ARL‐N²), a passive RFID indoor localization scheme for identifying tag positions in a room, combining a location identification based on dynamic active RFID calibration algorithm with a backpropagation neural network (BPN). The proposed scheme composed of two phases: in the training phase, an appropriate BPN architecture is constructed using the training data derived from the coordinates of reference tags and the coordinates obtained using the localization algorithm. By contrast, the online phase involves calculating the tracking tag coordinates and using these values as BPN inputs, thereby enhancing the estimated location. A performance evaluation of the ARL‐N² schemes confirms its high localization accuracy. The proposed method can be used to locate critical objects in difficult‐to‐find areas by creating minimal errors and applying and economical technique. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Enhanced energy-saving anticollision algorithms with improving throughput for RFID system

Tag collision algorithm is a key issue for energy saving and throughput with Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system more popular in sensing infrastructure of covering wider area on a large scale. Exploiting low energy consumption strategy would enable longer operational life of tags and reader with battery energy supply. And improving throughput is required on a large scale to preserve the capability of the correct reception. Therefore, this paper proposes an enhanced anti-collision algorithm called Dynamic Slotted with Muting (DSM), which uses multiple slots within a frame per node in a binary tree and takes tag estimation function to optimize the number of slots, and adds a mute command to put identified tags silence. The performance of the proposed algorithm is analytically provided, and simulation results show that DSM saves more than 40% energy consumptions both at reader and tags, and improves more than 35% throughput compared to the existing algorithms. Thus our algorithm is demonstrated to perform efficient energy savings at reader and tags with throughput improvement.     

Design of a RFID System for Real-Time Tracking of Laboratory Animals

In this paper, a real-time RFID system capable of tracking laboratory animals is designed and implemented. Four passive RFID tags based on low frequency are designed and implemented. The tags can be read by any RFID reader that operates on the low frequency range 125–134 kHz. The tags are designed through the investigation of various antenna, encoding, modulation, and energy harvesting techniques. The tag receives the electromagnetic signal via the antenna, and converts it to a DC signal that the microcontroller can use to manipulate the electromagnetic signal with the data such that the reader can decode the unique tag identifier. RFID sensors are designed and implemented to collect data from various monitored areas of a semi natural environment. The data is sent to a central data coordinator for pre-processing and middleware for data error checking, display and storage. The RFID system can successfully detect and store movement data in real time. A read range of 14.5 cm is achieved.     

Reader Coverage Analysis for Multi-Carrier Passive UHF RFID Systems

Applications of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have gained considerable attentions in recent years. Because a passive tag must obtain its operating power from a continuous wave transmitted from a reader in a conventional RFID system, reader coverage is limited. Thus, expanding reader coverage is a current goal in RFID research. In this work, passive tags are provided with additional operating power via continuous waves in multiple frequency bands. In an interrogation region, continuous wave emitters, which provide additional operating power to passive tags, are deployed according to the base station configuration in a cellular phone system. Because transmission power of continuous wave emitters must consider the reader command demodulation constraint and minimum operating power required by a tag, transmission power of continuous wave emitters must be chosen carefully. A method for analyzing reader coverage in multi-carrier passive UHF RFID systems is derived in this work. Assuming all tags are uniformly distributed in an interrogation region, the optimal continuous wave emitter transmission power that achieves the largest reader coverage can be analytically determined. Simulation results verify that continuous wave emitters with suitable transmission power expand reader coverage in a multi-carrier passive UHF RFID system. Additionally, adjusting reader power in the forward (reader-to-tag) link duration can loosen the reader command demodulation constraint and thereby further expand reader coverage.