Often users wish to maximize the range of a

passive RFID system. At the furthest extent of their range

the signal between tag and reader will be at the weakest level

which the reader can detect. It is desirable to know how close

a system is to operating at this level, since the data being

transmitted will be increasingly susceptible to small increases in

the channel noise. This paper examines two techniques to survey

an RFID system’s performance, and investigates two sampled

environments: a large bare room, and a manufacturing facility

with extensive fixturing. It seeks to 1) identify a useful metric

for measuring the performance of an RFID tag and reader in

a given configuration and 2) evaluate methods for surveying

this performance across a space to be used for an RFID system

deployment.

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In  12th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics

Publisher  IEEE
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