Sensors (Jan 2011)

RFID Label Tag Design for Metallic Surface Environments

  • Ki Hwan Eom,
  • Chong Ryol Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s110100938
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 938 – 948

Abstract

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This paper describes a metal mount RFID tag that works reliably on metallic surfaces. The method proposes the use of commercial label type RFID tags with 2.5 mm thick Styrofoam103.7 with a relative permittivity of 1.03 attached on the back of the tag. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, we performed experiments on an electric transformer supply chain system. The experimental results showed that the proposed tags can communicate with readers from a distance of 2 m. The recognition rates are comparable to those of commercial metallic mountable tags.

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