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LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface

The idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and...

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Autores principales: Węglarski, Mariusz, Jankowski-Mihułowicz, Piotr, Pitera, Grzegorz, Jurków, Dominik, Dorczyński, Mateusz
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6983026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31906575
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20010268
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author Węglarski, Mariusz
Jankowski-Mihułowicz, Piotr
Pitera, Grzegorz
Jurków, Dominik
Dorczyński, Mateusz
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Jankowski-Mihułowicz, Piotr
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Jurków, Dominik
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description The idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and increasing availability of low power electronics in order to get rid of the need to use electrochemical cells in a power supply unit of the elaborated device. To reach this assumption, special care has to be put on the energy balance in such an autonomous sensor node. First of all, the new concept of an electromagnetic LTCC turbine transducer with a signal conditioner which only draws a current of around 15 µA, is proposed for measuring a flow rate of fluids. Next, the autonomy of the device is showed; measured data are gathered in a microcontroller memory and sent to a control unit via an RFID interface which enables both information exchange and power transfer. The energy harvested from the electromagnetic field is used to conduct a data transmission, but also its excess can be accumulated, so the proposed sensor operates as a semi-passive transponder. The total autonomy of the device is achieved by implementing a second harvester that continually gathers energy from the environmental electromagnetic field of common active radio systems (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), wireless network Wi-Fi).
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spelling pubmed-69830262020-02-06 LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface Węglarski, Mariusz Jankowski-Mihułowicz, Piotr Pitera, Grzegorz Jurków, Dominik Dorczyński, Mateusz Sensors (Basel) Article The idea of battery-less flow sensors and their implementation in wireless measurement systems is presented in this research article. The authors take advantage of their latest achievements in the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID) technique, and increasing availability of low power electronics in order to get rid of the need to use electrochemical cells in a power supply unit of the elaborated device. To reach this assumption, special care has to be put on the energy balance in such an autonomous sensor node. First of all, the new concept of an electromagnetic LTCC turbine transducer with a signal conditioner which only draws a current of around 15 µA, is proposed for measuring a flow rate of fluids. Next, the autonomy of the device is showed; measured data are gathered in a microcontroller memory and sent to a control unit via an RFID interface which enables both information exchange and power transfer. The energy harvested from the electromagnetic field is used to conduct a data transmission, but also its excess can be accumulated, so the proposed sensor operates as a semi-passive transponder. The total autonomy of the device is achieved by implementing a second harvester that continually gathers energy from the environmental electromagnetic field of common active radio systems (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), wireless network Wi-Fi). MDPI 2020-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6983026/ /pubmed/31906575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20010268 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pitera, Grzegorz
Jurków, Dominik
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LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title_full LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title_fullStr LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title_full_unstemmed LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title_short LTCC Flow Sensor with RFID Interface
title_sort ltcc flow sensor with rfid interface
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6983026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31906575
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20010268
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