RFIDrone: Preliminary experiments and electromagnetic models
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Longhi, M.; Casati, G.; Latini, D.; Carbone, F.; Del Frate, F.; Marrocco, G.
- Source
- 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS) Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS), 2016 URSI International Symposium on. :450-453 Aug, 2016
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Radiofrequency identification
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Robot sensing systems
Sensitivity
Electromagnetics
Temperature sensors
- Language
We introduce in a unitary way the paradigm of radiofrequency identification (RFID) merged with the technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) giving rise to RFIDrone devices. Such family comprises the READER-Drone, which is a suitable UAV integrated with an autonomous RFID reader to act as mobile scanner of the environment, and the TAG-Drone, a UAV only equipped with an RFID sensor tag that hence becomes a mobile and automatically re-positioned sensor. We shows some handy electromagnetic models to identify the upper-bound communication performance of RFIDrone in close proximity of a scattering surface and we resume the results of some preliminary open-air experimentation corroborating the theoretical analysis.