RF-based Analytics Generated by Tag-to-tag Networks

We have developed a type of RFID tags that can communicate with each other directly if there is an RF signal in their environment to support backscattering. These tags are passive and they can form a tag-to-tag network. Our tags communicate by what we refer to as multiphase probing. With this techni...

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Main Authors: Stanacevic, M., Karimi, Y., Feng, G., Ryoo, J., Athalye, A., Das, S., Djuric, P. M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Activity recognition
Backscatter
BCSI estimation
Channel estimation
Internet-of-Things
multiphase probing
Radio frequency
RF signals
RFID
RFID tags
tag-to-tag networks
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Summary:We have developed a type of RFID tags that can communicate with each other directly if there is an RF signal in their environment to support backscattering. These tags are passive and they can form a tag-to-tag network. Our tags communicate by what we refer to as multiphase probing. With this technique, we basically explore the backscatter channel by reflecting the incident RF signal with different changes in the phase. We define a measure of the backscatter channel, which we call backscatter channel state information (BCSI). The BCSI is composed of backscatter channel phase, backscatter amplitude, and change in baseline excitation level. When acquired over time, this measure provides rich RF analytics that can be used to extract various types of information from the environment of the tags by signal processing/machine learning methods. We show in the paper that this analytics is invariant w.r.t. to some variables including the deployment environment. We provide results from experiments with our tags that demonstrate the invariance of the BCSI.
ISSN:2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682459