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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

Dipole Antenna_LSCM1

Dipole Antenna_LSCM2

Dipole Antenna_LSCM3_3D

Dipole Antenna_ff1

Dipole Antenna_ff2

Dipole Antenna_ff3

Dipole Antenna_ff4

Dipole Antenna_ff5

Dipole Antenna_ff6

Embedded T-matching Tag Antenna with Shunt Stub

Soil Tag Antenna

Loop Antenna_nf1

Loop Antenna_nf2

Loop Antenna_nf3

Loop Antenna_nf4

Patch Antenna_mt1

Patch Antenna_mt2, with Slot

Patch Antenna_mt3, two-layer version

Patch Antenna_mt4, three-layer version

Patch Antenna_mt5

Patch Antenna_mt6

Patch Antenna_mt7, Half-E-Shape

Patch Antenna_mt8, Four-Parch Antenna

Patch Antenna_mt9, Single-layer Patch

Patch Antenna_mt10, single-layer patch w/ embedded t-match

Patch Antenna_mt11, metal-mountable compact PIFA

Patch Antenna_mt12, Platform-tolerant, PIFA

Patch Antenna_mt13, Ultra-small PIFA

EBG-based Tag Antenna 1

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