RFID Tag for Long Range and Wide Coverage Capabilities

About this technology

Overview

Researchers at the NASA Johnson Space Center have created a suite of RFID technologies focused in the areas of inventory management and tracking systems and one of those technologies is the RFID Tag with Long Range and Wide Coverage Capabilities. This technology can be integrated to a RFID Tag with a beamforming network capable of receiving and sending long range signals from different directions. Typical RFID tags offer either wide coverage with limited range or long range with narrow coverage. However, this technology, which can even employ passive RFID tags, is capable of doing both, opening the RFID technology to a new spectrum of applications, including inventory tracking, navigational systems, and predictive analytics. With its dual benefits of long range and broad coverage made available by retroreflection, these RFID tags can easily enhance existing RFID infrastructure to enable new applications in many industries.