Scope and Application of Harmonic RFID

for
Implanted Body Area Network

Saikat Mondal*, Deepak Kumar, Saranraj

Karuppuswami, and Premjeet Chahal

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michigan State University

2020 IEEE International Conference on RFID

Introduction
• RFID technology -> Wearable sensing

No battery needed.
Line of sight is not necessary for
RFIDs.
Memory size is expandable. R. Colella, et al., “Application of the Pseudo-BAP
Longer read range. mode to a 3D-Printed Wearable UHF RFID Tag with
Sensing Capabilities”, IEEE SpliTech, 2018.
Low cost.

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Body Area Network
• Recent advance on
healthcare.
• Complex Body Area
Network (BAN) with
many sensors.
• Due to lightweight and
no external battery,
RFID is an excellent
choice

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Challenge with RFID
• Very low power availability.
• Clutter will effect the performance of RFID.

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Clutter Effect
• Effect of clutter is
measured for single
frequency RFID.

Metal cabinet @40 cm Absorber @40 cm

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Harmonic RFID
• Harmonic RFID is
proposed for advantage
over conventional RFID.

Harmonic Tag

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Harmonic Generation
• Nonlinear Transmission
Line (NLTL) is used as
harmonic generation.

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Harmonic Generation
• Broadband characteristics of NLTL
is shown for ‘off’ and ‘on’ state.

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Energy Harvester and Matching
Four stage modified Dickson charge
pump configuration.
Input
Dual frequency matching for energy impedance
harvester.

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Complete Tag Design
• A dual band antenna was designed with harmonic
and fundamental resonance.

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Measurement Setup

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Conclusion and Future Work
• The developed harmonic RFID showed good
performance at low frequency modulation at long
range.
• The proposed single antenna harmonic tag only
requires an extra harmonic generator in addition to
other RFID components.
• The harmonic tag has potential for wearable
applications.

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Thank you

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