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Stretchable Textile Yarn Based on UHF RFID Helical Tag

Authors :
Yvan Duroc
Sofia Benouakta
Florin Doru Hutu
Ampère, Département Energie Electrique (EE)
Ampère (AMPERE)
École Centrale de Lyon (ECL)
Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
CITI Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of services (CITI)
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)
Software and Cognitive radio for telecommunications (SOCRATE)
Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CITI Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of services (CITI)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)
Source :
Textiles, Textiles, MDPI, 2021, New Research Trends for Textiles, 1 (3), pp.547-557. ⟨10.3390/textiles1030029⟩, Textiles, Vol 1, Iss 29, Pp 547-557 (2021), Textiles, 2021, New Research Trends for Textiles, 1 (3), pp.547-557. ⟨10.3390/textiles1030029⟩, Textiles; Volume 1; Issue 3; Pages: 547-557
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2021.

Abstract

In the context of wearable technology, several techniques have been used for the fabrication of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags such as 3D printing, inkjet printing, and even embroidery. In contrast to these methods where the tag is attached to the object by using sewing or simple sticking, the E-Thread® technology is a novel assembling method allowing for the integration of the RFID tag into a textile yarn and thus makes it embeddable into the object at the fabrication stage. The current E-Thread® yarn uses a RFID tag in which the antenna is a straight half-wave dipole that makes the solution vulnerable to mechanical strains (i.e., elongation). In this paper, we propose an alternative to the current RFID yarn solution with the use of an antenna having a helical geometry that answers to the mechanical issues and keeps quite similar electrical and radiative properties with respect to the present solution. The RFID helical tag was designed and simulated taking into consideration the constraints of the manufacturing process. The helical RFID tag was then fabricated using the E-Thread® technology and experimental characterization showed that the obtained structure exhibited good performance with 10.6 m of read range in the ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID band and 10% of tolerance in terms of elongation.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26737248
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Textiles, Textiles, MDPI, 2021, New Research Trends for Textiles, 1 (3), pp.547-557. ⟨10.3390/textiles1030029⟩, Textiles, Vol 1, Iss 29, Pp 547-557 (2021), Textiles, 2021, New Research Trends for Textiles, 1 (3), pp.547-557. ⟨10.3390/textiles1030029⟩, Textiles; Volume 1; Issue 3; Pages: 547-557
Accession number :
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