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RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Advances in the Design of IoT Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 27523

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Asier Perallos

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Spain
Interests: Internet of Things; RFID; distributed systems; intelligent systems; software architectures; smart mobility and logistics
Dr. Hugo Landaluce

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Spain
Interests: RFID; communication protocols and standards; wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; Industry 4.0
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Dr. Laura Arjona

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Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Interests: RFID; Internet of Things; wireless communications; wireless sensor networks; communication protocols and standards; neuroengineering
Dr. Ignacio Angulo Martínez

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, 48007, Bilbao, Spain
Interests: embedded systems; industrial internet of things; rfid applications; smart mobility and logistics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensors networks (WSN) are two fundamental pillars that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). RFID systems are able to identify and track devices, whilst WSN cooperate to gather and provide information from interconnected sensors. Both technologies must work together to exploit their advantages and complement their limitations. In fact, the combination of RFID and WSN represents a very promising approach to solve the current challenges in IoT.

Emerging challenges are arising from transforming RFID systems with mere identification capabilities into sensing and computational platforms and into wirelessly connected architectures. This fact, together with the latest advances in WSN and with the integration among both technologies, has produced the opportunity to develop novel IoT applications.

However, these two technologies still have to overcome several obstacles such as energy harvesting efficiency, communication interference, fault tolerance, higher capacities to handling data processing, cost feasibility, and an appropriate integration between these factors.

This Special Issue aims to gather a collection of papers, both from academic and industrial authors, focused on emergent challenges and applications that adopt RFID, WSN, or both technologies integrated to provide innovative IoT solutions in key sectors, such as supply chain management, smart cities, smart factories, health, sports, and retail, among others.

Dr. Asier Perallos
Dr. Hugo Landaluce
Dr. Laura Arjona
Dr. Ignacio Angulo Martínez
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Passive sensors
  • Computational RFID
  • RFID tags as sensors
  • Sensor networks with RFID
  • Wearable RFID technology
  • Antenna and circuits design
  • Energy-harvesting techniques
  • Standards and communication protocols
  • Wireless communications
  • Middleware for sensing and computational RFID
  • Fog/Edge computing architectures
  • RFID/WSN-based IoT applications

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A Review of IoT Sensing Applications and Challenges Using RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks
by Hugo Landaluce, Laura Arjona, Asier Perallos, Francisco Falcone, Ignacio Angulo and Florian Muralter
Sensors 2020, 20(9), 2495; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092495 - 28 Apr 2020
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are two fundamental pillars that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). RFID systems are able to identify and track devices, whilst WSNs cooperate to gather and provide information from interconnected sensors. This involves challenges, [...] Read more.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are two fundamental pillars that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). RFID systems are able to identify and track devices, whilst WSNs cooperate to gather and provide information from interconnected sensors. This involves challenges, for example, in transforming RFID systems with identification capabilities into sensing and computational platforms, as well as considering them as architectures of wirelessly connected sensing tags. This, together with the latest advances in WSNs and with the integration of both technologies, has resulted in the opportunity to develop novel IoT applications. This paper presents a review of these two technologies and the obstacles and challenges that need to be overcome. Some of these challenges are the efficiency of the energy harvesting, communication interference, fault tolerance, higher capacities to handling data processing, cost feasibility, and an appropriate integration of these factors. Additionally, two emerging trends in IoT are reviewed: the combination of RFID and WSNs in order to exploit their advantages and complement their limitations, and wearable sensors, which enable new promising IoT applications. Full article
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A New Washable UHF RFID Tag: Design, Fabrication, and Assessment
by Aurelian Moraru, Corneliu Ursachi and Elena Helerea
Sensors 2020, 20(12), 3451; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20123451 - 18 Jun 2020
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This paper deals with the design and fabrication of durable radio frequency identification (RFID) passive tag with inductive coupling, operating at ultra-high frequencies, dedicated to the identification and monitoring of professional textile products. A reliable architecture for the tag transponder is proposed, featuring [...] Read more.
This paper deals with the design and fabrication of durable radio frequency identification (RFID) passive tag with inductive coupling, operating at ultra-high frequencies, dedicated to the identification and monitoring of professional textile products. A reliable architecture for the tag transponder is proposed, featuring a minimal number of galvanic contacts: The two pins of the integrated circuit are connected to the terminals of the inductive coupling loop by using surface mount technology welding. The transponder is encapsulated with an electrically insulating material which is waterproof and resistant to mechanical, thermal, and chemical stress. The antenna is inductively coupled to the transponder through a double loop which substantially reduces the length of the tag and significantly improves the coupling factor, enabling the tag to operate at a low power level. The reliability and flexibility of the tag is obtained by using appropriate materials and manufacturing methods for the ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna by embroidering a multifilament stainless steel wire on textile support. The washing cycle tests have validated the applicability of this flexible and washable RFID tag, and its electromagnetic performance was experimentally assessed in an independent laboratory. Full article
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