A Low-Power RFID Integrated Circuits for Intelligent Healthcare Systems

作者：Lee Shuenn Yuh^*; Wang Liang Hung; Fang Qiang

来源：IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2010, 14(6): 1387-1396.

DOI：10.1109/TITB.2010.2053942

• Body sensor network
• bioinformation
• biosignal acquisition
• healthcare
• low-power
• radio-frequency identification (RFID)
• reader
• transponder

This paper presents low-power radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for intelligent healthcare systems. With attention to power-efficient communication in the body sensor network, RF power transfer was estimated and the required low-power ICs, which are important in the development of a healthcare system with miniaturization and system integration, are discussed based on the RFID platform. To analyze the power transformation, this paper adopts a 915-MHz industrial, scientific, and medical RF with a radiation power of 70 mW to estimate the power loss under the 1-m communication distance between an RFID reader (bioinformation node) and a transponder (biosignal acquisition nodes). The low-power ICs of the transponder will be implemented in the TSMC 0.18-mu m CMOS process. The simulation result reveals that the transponder's IC can fit in with the link budget of the UHF RFID system.

• 出版日期2010-11
• 单位中国科学院电工研究所