This paper describes the architecture and the micropower design criteria of a battery-less, energy autonomous, individually addressable RF tag for UWB localization applications, with a focus on baseband circuitry. The tag includes a UHF rectifier, power conversion and management circuits, an addressable wake-up radio module, a microcontroller-based control unit, and circuits for UWB localization. The proposed circuit is suitable for UWB localization either by using passive backscattering of received UWB pulses, or by using active UWB pulses generators. Power for operation is scavenged from a modulated UHF carrier also used for addressing purposes. The circuit is implemented on discrete components in a 3.12 cm2 PCB area. The circuit can wake-up from fully discharged states and operates at distances as high as 10.8 m from a 2W-ERP source in the UHF 865–868 MHz RFID band with a +1.8 dBi receiving antenna. The quiescent power consumption of the tag is 3.88 μW, and the average power consumption at an addressing and activation rate of one time per second is 4.7 μW. The effectiveness of UWB localization was tested in a localization system based on time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) estimations, consisting of multiple UWB readers and UHF transmitters.

Davide Fabbri, M.P. (2018). Micropower Design of an Energy Autonomous RF Tag for UWB Localization Applications. IEEE [10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351353].

Micropower Design of an Energy Autonomous RF Tag for UWB Localization Applications

FABBRI, DAVIDE;Matteo Pizzotti;Aldo Romani
2018

Abstract

This paper describes the architecture and the micropower design criteria of a battery-less, energy autonomous, individually addressable RF tag for UWB localization applications, with a focus on baseband circuitry. The tag includes a UHF rectifier, power conversion and management circuits, an addressable wake-up radio module, a microcontroller-based control unit, and circuits for UWB localization. The proposed circuit is suitable for UWB localization either by using passive backscattering of received UWB pulses, or by using active UWB pulses generators. Power for operation is scavenged from a modulated UHF carrier also used for addressing purposes. The circuit is implemented on discrete components in a 3.12 cm2 PCB area. The circuit can wake-up from fully discharged states and operates at distances as high as 10.8 m from a 2W-ERP source in the UHF 865–868 MHz RFID band with a +1.8 dBi receiving antenna. The quiescent power consumption of the tag is 3.88 μW, and the average power consumption at an addressing and activation rate of one time per second is 4.7 μW. The effectiveness of UWB localization was tested in a localization system based on time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) estimations, consisting of multiple UWB readers and UHF transmitters.
2018
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Proceedings, 27–30 May 2018 Florence, Italy
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Davide Fabbri, M.P. (2018). Micropower Design of an Energy Autonomous RF Tag for UWB Localization Applications. IEEE [10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351353].
Davide Fabbri, Matteo Pizzotti, Aldo Romani
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