Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v10i2.130
Integrating Passive UHF RFID Tags with WSN Nodes: Challenges and Opportunities
Danilo De Donno
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Maria Laura Stefanizzi
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Luca Catarinucci
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Luca Mainetti
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Luigi Patrono
orcid.org/0000-0002-8591-1190
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Luciano Tarricone
; Innovation Engineering Department, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have received an ever-increasing attention in recent years, mainly because they represent two of the most important technologies enabling the Internet of Things vision. Although designed originally with different objectives, WSN and RFID represent two complementary technologies whose integration might increase their functionalities and extend their range of applications. However, important technological issues must still be solved in order to fully exploit the potentialities offered by such integration. In this work, an innovative RFID-WSN integration approach is presented and validated. It relies on the interconnection of a new-generation, long-range, EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) RFID tag with a commercial WSN node via the I2C interface. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared to existing solution in the literature. Interesting application scenarios enabled by the proposed RFID-WSN integration approach are briefly summarized at the end of the paper.
Keywords
RFID; Wireless Sensor Network; UHF; integration approach; wake-up radio
Hrčak ID:
180034
URI
Publication date:
22.6.2014.
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