Passive RFID based sensing

Abstract

The principle of communication of passive RFID, which relies on the Modulated Scattering Technique (MST) to transmit the information from the tag to the reader, opens a way to enable conventional RFID for sensing purposes, without any additional circuitry. In this paper a short description of the physical principle behind the sensing is presented along with measurements of RFID tags used for sensing in multiple applications, such as electromagnetic field measurement temperature or presence detection.