Georgia Tech ECE Research Group
Below is a video recording of the IEEE RFID 2018 panel session, “The Past, Present, and Future of RFID”. Prof. Sanjay Sarma moderates as Prof. Matt Reynolds, Dr. Paul Muller, and Prof. Greg Durgin provide commentary. Interesting questions include:
This concept comes from a 2015 RFID-TA paper Daniel Dobkin and a bunch of friends at Cal Poly. How do you explain a sophisticated, multi-antenna signaling scheme to a broad audience at the Big Site venue in Tokyo, Japan? You use anime, of course! Dr. Dobkin is always an entertaining presence at a conference.
Below is the embedded talk from University of Washington’s EE department, hosted by Associate Chair for Research, Prof. Matt Reynolds. The talk is a variant of the IEEE CRFID distinguished lecture talk, “Wireless Forever: the Future of RF Systems that Never Plug-in”. In it we discuss the future of RF energy-harvesting and low-powered communications, explaining how the current state-of-the-art stacks up with respect to fundamental limits. The slide deck is also available for download.
Cheng Qi, Prof. Joshua Griffin, and Prof. Gregory D. Durgin presented a poster at the IEEE RFID 2018 conference in Orlando, FL on “Low-power, Compact Microwave RFID Reader and Sensing Tag for Space Applications”. The poster presents a design for a custom 5.8 GHz low-power backscatter reader that will be part of the main scientific instrument on a NASA CubeSat mission. The concept behind the mission is to use wireless power transfer to run off-chasis measurements of sensitive parameters such as inertial rotation, radiation, and magnetometry. Download the poster PDF.