Performance characterization of a battery-less NFC sensor for museum artifact monitoring
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2023-07-03
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Gawade, Dinesh R.
Kumar, Sanjeev
Simorangkir, Roy B. V. B.
O’Callaghan, Brendan
Iacopino, Daniela
Rather, Nadeem
O’Flynn, Brendan
Buckley, John L.
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This paper presents the performance of a battery-less near field communication (NFC) sensor for museum artifact monitoring. The radio frequency (RF) receiver sensitivity of the NFC sensor was measured using a commercial Tagformance measurement system. To respond to read commands, the NFC sensor requires a minimum magnetic field strength of 67.8 mA/m in free space, and 87.6 mA/m after integration within an archive box typically used for cultural heritage artifact storage. The integrated NFC loop antenna has a -3 dB bandwidth of 1.16 MHz in free space and 1.14 MHz bandwidth when integrated within the archive box. These measured RF sensitivity and -3 dB bandwidth values are in close agreement with the ISO/IEC 15693 standard. This work demonstrates a DC power consumption of 597 µW which is shown to be the lowest value compared to the state-of-the-art literature. In addition, the wireless communication range of approximately 5 cm was achieved which compares favourably with the maximum read ranges reported in literature. The developed NFC sensor has been deployed in European museums for wireless monitoring of valuable artifacts.
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Battery-less NFC sensor , Cultural heritage objects , Energy harvesting , HF-RFID , Museum artifacts monitoring , NFC sensor characterization , Voyantic Tagformance
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Gawade, D. R., Kumar, S., Simorangkir, R. B. V. B., O’Callaghan, B., Iacopino, D., Rather, N., O’Flynn, B. and Buckley, J. L. (2023) ‘Performance characterization of a battery-less NFC sensor for museum artifact monitoring’, 2023 34th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.1109/ISSC59246.2023.10162126
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