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Package-specific RFID Tagging and Embedding Technology

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Overview

Driven by the mandates from world’s biggest retailers (WalMartR, MetroR, etc), along with increasing requests from logistic companies and supply chain providers around the world, RFID tagging is becoming a critical procedure in the product packaging industry. In Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, with the world's largest manufacturing and production cluster, more and more products are packaged with RFID labels and shipped into the world supply chain. However, current RFID tagging procedure still relies on slap-and-ship of RFID labels on product packages, which is time-consuming, prone to damage and not cost effective. More importantly, because the performance of RFID antennas is greatly dependent on the packaging and content materials as well as the form-factors of the package itself, general-purpose RFID tags will not yield the best performance in most applications. In this project, we propose to design product specific RFID tags that are tuned and optimized for the packaging materials and different form factors, and explore the enabling technologies that will embed RFID tags inside product packages. The project will focus on case level packaging on paper and plastic packaging materials. This project will greatly facilitate the deployment of RFID technology in the packaging industry as well as other RFID applications in Hong Kong and PRD region.

Industry Logistics and Supply Chain
Technology IoT / RFID
Deliverables
  1. Dipole Antenna_LSCM1
  2. Dipole Antenna_LSCM2
  3. Dipole Antenna_LSCM3_3D
  4. Dipole Antenna_ff1
  5. Dipole Antenna_ff2
  6. Dipole Antenna_ff3
  7. Dipole Antenna_ff4
  8. Dipole Antenna_ff5
  9. Dipole Antenna_ff6
  10. Embedded T-matching Tag Antenna with Shunt Stub
  11. Soil Tag Antenna
  12. Loop Antenna_nf1
  13. Loop Antenna_nf2
  14. Loop Antenna_nf3
  15. Loop Antenna_nf4
  16. Patch Antenna_mt1
  17. Patch Antenna_mt2, with Slot
  18. Patch Antenna_mt3, two-layer version
  19. Patch Antenna_mt4, three-layer version
  20. Patch Antenna_mt5
  21. Patch Antenna_mt6
  22. Patch Antenna_mt7, Half-E-Shape
  23. Patch Antenna_mt8, Four-Parch Antenna
  24. Patch Antenna_mt9, Single-layer Patch
  25. Patch Antenna_mt10, single-layer patch w/ embedded t-match
  26. Patch Antenna_mt11, metal-mountable compact PIFA
  27. Patch Antenna_mt12, Platform-tolerant, PIFA
  28. Patch Antenna_mt13, Ultra-small PIFA
  29. EBG-based Tag Antenna 1
  30. EBG-based Tag Antenna 2

More information

Project Reference GHP/046/07LP
Hosting Institution LSCM R&D Centre (LSCM)
Project Coordinator Dr. Terry Ye
Approved Funding Amount HK$12.85M
Project Period 20 May 2008 - 19 Aug 2010