Radio Frequency Identification Engineering

Alírio Soares Boaventura is a scientist and lead RF engineer at Maybell Quantum Industries in Denver Colorado and previously was a researcher for over five years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder Colorado. He is the recipient of the 2011 URSI-Portugal/ANACOM Prize, and of an IEEE MTT-S graduate fellowship award and was featured in the publication University of Aveiro, forty Years, forty Inventors,forty Entrepreneurs. Nuno Borges Carvalho is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in, Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics (2020). He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the RFID-Council and in 2022 was the IEEE-MTT President-Elect.

Foreword Smail Tedjini; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. An introduction to radio frequency identification; 3. Backscatter communications: fundamentals and recent advances; 4. An overview of the ISO 18000-63 standard; 5. Digital signal processing for RFID applications; 6. A simple low-cost RFID reader implementation; 7. A software-defined RFID reader design; 8. Self-jamming in backscatter radio systems; 9. Wake-up radios for IoT applications; 10. Unconventional wireless power transmission; 11. A battery-less backscatter remote control system; Appendix A – Alternative battery-less controller configurations.