RFID Sensors for Environmental, Agri-Food and Industrial Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 3092
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microsensors; chipless sensors; microwave sensors; smart materials; transducers; IoT
Interests: microwave systems and devices; RFID; modulated scattering techniques (MST); microwave antenna; microwave sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It’s our great pleasure to announce this Special Issue on RFID Sensors for Environmental, Agri-Food and Industrial Applications.
Radiofrequency identification (RFID) is a fast-growing wireless technology. Its applications can be found in automatic identification, security, vehicle and item tracking, access to restricted areas, and, because of the strong miniaturization, in human and animal implants.
New scenarios, created by Industry 4.0 and IoT technologies, require very cheap RFID tags, capable of keeping their performance to a high level and in any environment with a high operative range and capable of measuring different environmental capabilities. The limitations of standard RFID systems do not make them the best candidates for these new applications because of their low operative range and their sensing inability. The coupling of sensing functionalities with RFID technology generates a wonderful tool for developing massive low-cost sensor networks, because of battery-free design, adaptable sensor form factor, and minimal sensor cost. Other advantages of RFID sensors include high nodal densities, the ability to sense through non-transparent materials, low installation costs, and no need for extensive wiring. In such a framework, the use of unconventional RFID sensors for environmental agri-food and industrial applications is a challenge and it could lead to a dramatic cost reduction and improve the performances of RFID systems in terms of operative range and sensing capabilities.
The objective of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the current research on unconventional RFID sensors systems, highlight the latest developments and innovations, and identify new challenges and opportunities for their applications.
- Novel RFID sensor design and fabrication techniques;
- Smart materials and processing for RFID sensing;
- Chipless RFID, microwave, and metamaterial-based sensors and applications;
- Transduction/modulation techniques.
Dr. Viviana Mulloni
Dr. Massimo Donelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RFID
- chipless RFID sensors
- microwave sensors
- smart materials
- metamaterials, reflective surfaces
- reflect-arrays
