A Comparative Survey on Silicon Based and Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)-Based RFID Tags: Potentials, Challenges, and Future Directions

Autor: Mark Goh, Muhammad Zubair Aslam, Varun Jeoti, Kasyap Suresh, Socheatra Soeung, Micheal Drieberg
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
General Computer Science
Computer science
near field
02 engineering and technology
Interference (wave propagation)
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
Electronic article
silicon based integrated circuit (IC) RFID tags
far field communication
interdigital transducer (IDT)
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

Electronic engineering
Radio-frequency identification
General Materials Science
Interrogation
RFID tracking/identification
business.industry
010401 analytical chemistry
General Engineering
020206 networking & telecommunications
Optical character recognition
0104 chemical sciences
Chipless RFID
Identification (information)
Computer data storage
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
business
surface acoustic wave (SAW)
computer
lcsh:TK1-9971
Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 91624-91647 (2020)
ISSN: 2169-3536
Popis: Many Automatic Identification (Auto-ID) technologies such as bar codes, magnetic stripes, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) security tags are in existence. However, they are limited by a variety of constraints on them such as limited object rate of scan, need for Line-of-Sight (LOS) operation, very small interrogation range and poor accuracy in complex environments. Research has accordingly grown rapidly in recent years into the development of robust identification or tracking mechanisms. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology using readers and RFID tags, whether passive, semi-passive or active in nature, has been deemed to be a promising candidate. Silicon based IC tags are quite popular. However, some alternative RFID technologies have also been on the rise. In particular, another special type of tag based on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) design also has a great potential for deployment in future identification fields due to its ruggedness against harsh conditions, metallic environments, interference, small and low cost and is being thoroughly reviewed, which is ignored in other survey papers. While other chipless RFID systems based on conductive ink, ink-tattoo and others do exist, negative aspects such as inability to survive in extreme weather, larger tag size and limited data storage capacity have severely impacted the penetration of such tags in the RFID market. Therefore, the scope of this survey article does not include chipless RFID tags. This article instead provides a comparative survey of silicon based IC and SAW based tags, which has attracted much attention from both academia and industry. The underlying characteristics, principles, advantages, and limitations of such tags are thoroughly discussed, and relevant research work followed by frequency of operation and other parameters are elaborated. This article undertakes a thorough investigation into the evolution of RFID technology and comparison into the current trend in silicon based IC and SAW based RFID tags and provides a comparison across many metrics, such as read range, tag size, tag power, availability of tag power, lifespan and more importantly, cost and security. It discusses active and passive tags under silicon based IC and SAW technology. Finally, the article reviews recent advances and provides potentials, open challenges and future research directions in such RFID tags. © 2013 IEEE.
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