C5.1 - Sensor Based RFID-Identification System

Event
SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg
Band
Proceedings SENSOR 2009, Volume II
Chapter
C5 - Sensor Communication II
Author(s)
J. Woellenstein, M. Bauersfeld, C. Peter - Fraunhofer-Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, Freiburg, Germany, A. Oprea, U. Weimar - Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry IPC, Tübingen, Germany, M. Schmidt - Scemtec Transponder Technology, Reichshof, Germany, T. Becker - EADS Deutschland GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany, O. Kiesewetter - UST Umweltsensortechnik GmbH, Geschwenda, Germany
Pages
179 - 183
DOI
10.5162/sensor09/v2/c5.1
ISBN
978-3-9810993-5-5
Price
free

Abstract

Daily, millions of goods are shipped around the globe. It appears as a logistical challenge to ensure, that all different goods reach their destination in acceptable condition. Many of them do not arrive in the same condition as they left the producer. Instead of perfect original goods, rusted vehicle parts, defective flat screens, spoiled medicine or overripe fruit arrive at their destination. Only in rare cases is it possible to determine clearly who is responsible and should bear the costs, because the goods generally go through many hands. So it is necessary, to have a reliable measurement technique, which offers transparency to all members of the supply chain. Therefore, a new, semi active, sensor based RFID-Identification system is presented. This RFID-platform offers a multi-chip solution with well-defined interfaces (I2C-bus) to the sensory unit. For the integration on flexible RFID-Tags novel temperature, humidity and light sensors were developed and characterised. Functional RFID-labels with integrated humidity and temperature sensors were built up for demonstration and field tests.

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