Passive RFID Strain-Sensor Based on Meander-Line Antennas

By Cecilia Occhiuzzi, C. Paggi, Gaetano Marrocco. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2011

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The processing of backscattered signals coming from RFID tags is potentially useful to detect the physical state of the tagged object. It is here shown how to design a completely passive UHF RFID sensor for strain monitoring starting from a flexible meander-line dipole whose shape factor and feed section are engineered to achieve the desired sensing resolution and dynamic range. This class of devices is low-cost, promises sub-millimeter resolution and may found interesting applications in the Structural Health Monitoring of damaged structures and vehicles as well as during extreme and adverse events.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Media Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Passive wireless antenna sensor for strain and crack sensing—electromagnetic modeling, simulation, and testing (2013, background): “A small-size meander-line antenna with RFID modulation has been designed for wireless strain sensing on non-metallic structures [18], although the demonstrated measurable strain resolutions are unlikely sufficient for most SHM applications.”
• A Review of Passive RFID Tag Antenna-Based Sensors and Systems for Structural Health Monitoring Applications (2017, methodology): “A meander-line dipole antenna was designed to measure the strain using a controlled shape factor [40].”