• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.79-85
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• 2004

In this paper, the RF-ID system for ubiquitous tagging applications has been designed, fabricated and analysed. The RF-ID System consists of passive RF-ID Tag and Reader. The passive RF-ID tag consists of rectifier using zero-bias schottky diode which converts RF power into DC power, ID chip, ASK modulator using bipolar transistor and slot loop antenna. We suggest an ASK undulation method using a bipolar transistor to compensate the disadvantage of the conventional PIN diode, which needs large current Also, the slot loop antenna with wider bandwidth than that of the conventional patch antenna is suggested The RF-ID reader consist of patch array antenna, Tx/Rx part and ASK demodulator. We have designed the RF-ID System using EM and circuit simulation tools. According to the measured results, The power level of modulation signal at 1 m from passive RF-ID Tag is -46.76 dBm and frequency of it is 57.2 KHz. The transmitting power of RF-ID reader was 500 mW

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.143-152
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• 2004

최근 RFID 국제 표준안이 확정되고 RFID 태그용 칩이 저가 생산이 가능하게 되면서 특히 물류 유통 분야를 중심으로 기존의 바코드를 대체하는 RFID 시스템의 상용화 가능성이 제시되고있다. 특히 감지거리가 길고 인식률이 좋은 UHF 대역의 기술적인 활용 가능성이 고조되면서 산업적으로 성공할 가능성이 더욱 커지고 있다. UHF 대역의 무선 태그의 생산 기술은 종래에는 GaAs 쇼트키 다이오드와 기타 RF회로를 CMOS 회로와 하나의 칩으로 통합하는 것이 어려워 저가, 초소형의 무선 태그용 칩을 실용화하지 못하였다 하지만 최근에 반도체 기술의 눈부신 발전과 CMOS RF 기술의 발전으로 RF 태그용 무선회로를 하나의 칩으로 통합하여 저가 생산으로 특히 유통 및 물류 분야를 중심으로 긍정적인 활용 결과 및 제품들이 등장하고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.89-96
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• 2018

This study aims to develop a fully passive smart sensing tag utilizing RF (Radio Frequency) energy harvesting technology at UHF (Ultra High Frequency) band of 915MHz. To optimize the power collected under various radiated conditions, an efficient energy harvesting module exploiting a boost circuit with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is employed. Specifically, the proposed tag features two orthogonal antennas to enhance its capability of both energy scavenging and data transmissions. The experimental result shows that the developed smart sensor tag can scavenge an RF input power of as low as 0.19mW at a distance of 4 meters for a 3.6Vdc output. Furthermore, the proposed smart sensor tag performs the feasibility of completely autonomous monitoring food freshness at 2 meters with a low-power sensor array.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.43-49
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• 2008

The Real Time Location System (RTLS) is very important in the ubiquitous society for real time tracking of men, high price assets, and logistics products. In this work, we developed an active RF system for RTLS and tested its performance. The RTLS system developed in this work was constructed of three active readers and one active tag. The small size tag developed in this work operated with a coin type battery. To make the tag smaller, we used an internal PCB antenna and a chip antenna. We tested the performance of the tag. To reduce the manufacturing cost of our RF system, we used low price RF transceiver CC2510 chip-set. The CC2510 chip-set provided RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator) signal which could be used to determine the distances between an active tag and three active readers.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

In this paper, a dual-band antenna is proposed for the RF power harvester system as well as RFID tag. The proposed antenna operates as the passive and active RFID tag antenna in the UHF and microwave band, respectively. In addition, to charge the battery of an active RFID tag in the microwave band, it harvest the RF signal for tagging from the passive RFID tag antenna in the UHF band. The proposed antenna operates in the UHF band (917~923.5 MHz) and microwave band (2.4~2.45 GHz). In order to obtain the dual-band operation, the dipole structure and meander parasitic elements are proposed as the ${\lambda}/2$ and $1{\lambda}$ dipole antenna, respectively. The radiating dipole structure in the microwave band acts as the coupled feed for the meander parasitic elements in the UHF band. The impedance bandwidth (VSWR < 2) of the proposed antenna covers 917~923.5 MHz (UHF band) and 2.4~2.45 GHz (Microwave band). Measured total efficiencies are over 45 % in the UHF band and over 70 % in the microwave band. Peak gains are over 0.18 dBi and 2.8 dBi in the UHF and microwave band with an omni-directional radiation pattern, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.181-183
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• 2007

본 논문은 RF 리더기와 RF 태그 상호간의 통신시에 발생할 수 있는 충돌을 감지하고 이를 능동적으로 회피할수 있는 RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification)의 설계에 관한 내용이다. RFID는 사람, 자동차, 화물, 상품 등에 정보를 부가하는 시스템으로 그 부가정보를 무선통신매체를 이용하여 비접족으로 해독하는 시스템으로 기존의 바코드보다 데이터의 전송속도와 용량의 증가 그리고 편리성이 향상되는 장점이 있으나, 동시에 여러개의 RF태그와의 무선통신으로 인한 데이터의 충돌이 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 충돌을 감지하고 이를 적절하게 회피하는 것은 RFID 시스템의 신뢰성을 높이는데 필수적인 요소이다. RFID 태그로 사용되기 위해서는 건전지로 구동될 수 있도록 저전력소모가 요구되며 또한 통신의 시작과 충돌을 파악할 수 있는 캐리어 감지기능이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 조건들을 만족하는 Chipcon 사(社)의 양방향 RF IC를 사용하였다. Chipcon 사(社)의 양방향 RF IC는 다중 주파수 대역의 선택과 변조방식을 시리얼통신을 통해서 손쉽게 변경할 수 있기 때문에 충돌감지시 다양한 회피알고리즘을 상황에 맞게 구현할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 양방향 RF IC를 사용하여 충돌을 감지하고 회피할 수 있는 RFID시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.314
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• pp.68-74
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• 2019

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In recent year, the cores of ubiquitous environment are sensor networks and RFID systems. RFID system transmits the electronic information of the tag to the reader by using RF signal. Collision happens in RFID system when there are many matched tags, and it degrades the tag identification performance. Such a system needs algorithm which is able to arbitrate tag collision. This paper suggests a hybrid method which reduces collision between the tags, and can quickly identify the tag. The proposed method operates based on certainty, which takes an advantage of tree based algorithm, and to reduce collision it selects transmission time slot by using tag ID. The simulation results show the suggested method has higher performance in the number of queries and collision compared to other tree based and hybrid algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1943-1949
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• 2010

In this paper, we developed a RFID tag antenna using one-sheet inlay pattern which consist of two different frequencies in one layer. The antenna in one-sheet inlay RFID tag does not use different kind RFID antennas in a card but implement 13.56MHz and 900MHz RFID tag antennas in one sheet. In order to evaluate the usability of proposed method, we configured test equipments and designed 6 different patterns and test the recognition distance of each pattern. Among the one-sheet inlay RFID tag antenna designs, the pattern no.5 has good performance with recognition distance of 5.34m at 900MHz and 3.5m at 13.56MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.489-499
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• 2011

RFID technologies, which allow collecting, storing, processing, and tracking information by wirelessly recognizing the inherent ID of object through an attached electronic tag, have a variety of application areas. This paper presents a novel carrier leakage suppression RF(CLS-RF) front-end for ultra-high-frequency RF identification reader. The proposed reader CLS-RF front-end structure generates the carrier leakage replica through the nonlinear path that contains limiter. The limiting function only preserves the frequency and phase information of the leakage signal and rejects the amplitude modulated tag signal in the envelope. The carrier leakage replica is then injected into the linear path that contains phase shifter. Therefore, the carrier leakage signal is effectively cancelled out, while not affecting the gain of the desired tag backscattering signal. We experimentally confirm that the prototype shows a significant improvement in the leakage to signal ratio by up to 36 dB in 910 MHz, which is consistent with our simulation results.