A low-power RFID integrated circuits for intelligent healthcare systems

IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2010 Nov;14(6):1387-96. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2053942. Epub 2010 Jul 8.

Abstract

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-μm CMOS process. The simulation result reveals that the transponder's IC can fit in with the link budget of the UHF RFID system.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Computer Simulation
  • Electrocardiography
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electronics, Medical / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Medical Informatics
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Patient Identification Systems
  • Radio Waves
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Telemetry / instrumentation*
  • Transducers