Smart Antennas for Automatic Radio Frequency Identification Readers

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Author(s): Nemai Chandra Karmakar (Monash University, Australia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 25
Source title: Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Chen Sun (ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan), Jun Cheng (Doshisha University, Japan)and Takashi Ohira (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-988-5.ch021

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Mobile and Wireless Computing / Wireless Systems

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Various smart antennas developed for automatic radio frequency identification (RFID) readers are presented. The main smart antennas types of RFID readers are switched beam, phased array, adaptive beamfsorming and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. New development in the millimeter wave frequency band?60 GHz and above? exploits micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices and nano-components. Realizing the important of RFID applications in the 900 MHz frequency band, a 3×2-element planar phased array antenna has been designed in a compact package at Monash University. The antenna covers 860-960 GHz frequency band with more than 10 dB input return loss, 12 dBi broadside gain and up to 40° elevation beam scanning with a 4-bit reflection type phase shifter array. Once implemented in the mass market, RFID smart antennas will contribute tremendously in the areas of RFID tag reading rates, collision mitigation, location finding of items and capacity improvement of the RFID system.

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