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System Architecture for High-speed Close-proximity Low-power RF Memory Tags and Wireless Internet Access

Authors:
Iiro Jantunen
Joni Jantunen
Harald Kaaja
Sergey Boldyrev
Le Wang
Jyri Hämäläinen

Keywords: memory architecture; multimedia systems; RFID; telephone sets; RF memory tags; Internet connection

Abstract:
We have developed an open architecture platform for implementing passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags with a mass memory for close proximity environment. Purposes for such mass memory tags are, e.g., multimedia files embedded in advertisements or logged sensor data on a low-power sensor node. In the proposed architecture, a mobile phone acts as the reader that can read or write the memory of these RFID tags. The architecture also enables creation of a new type of wireless internet access suitable for, e.g., internet kiosks. The architecture is designed so that development path to a full Network on Terminal Architecture (NoTA) is feasible. The wireless reading speed of the mass memory tags, demonstrated to be 112 Mbit/s, is in the range that a 3-minute 640×320-pixel video can be loaded from the tag to the phone in less than 10 s. Our solution supports Nokia’s Explore and Share concept.

Pages: 217 to 228

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2011. Used with permission.

Publication date: April 30, 2012

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2601