Spectrally Efficient 4-PAM Ambient FM Backscattering for Wireless Sensing and RFID Applications

Spyridion-Nektarios Daskalakis; Ricardo Correia; George Goussetis; Manos M. Tentzeris; Nuno Borges Carvalho; Apostolos Georgiadis

doi:10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439284

Spectrally Efficient 4-PAM Ambient FM Backscattering for Wireless Sensing and RFID Applications

Spyridion-Nektarios Daskalakis, Ricardo Correia, George Goussetis, Manos M. Tentzeris, Nuno Borges Carvalho, Apostolos Georgiadis

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Ahstract- This work presents a novel wireless tag operating solely with ambient backscatter signals while featuring high-order modulation capabilities. Specifically, the proposed tag communicates with a low-cost software defined radio reader using backscatter radio principles on ambient commercial FM station signals, while sensing information from sensors can be modulated on the analog signals using 4-pulse amplitude modulation (4-PAM). The tag transceiver implementation is based on an ultra-low-power microcontroller for data processing and an RF frontend for wireless communication. A proof-of-concept prototype was demonstrated indoors over a 2 m tag-reader distance for a low bit rate of 328 bps with a Power consumotion under 20 μA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	266-269
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781538650677
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439284
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2018
Event	2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

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Name	IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2576-7216

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Conference	2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium
Abbreviated title	IMS 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	10/06/18 → 15/06/18

Keywords

Ambient backscattering
backscatter communication
high order modulation
Internet of Things (ioT)
radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID) sensors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiation
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Daskalakis, S.-N., Correia, R., Goussetis, G., Tentzeris, M. M., Carvalho, N. B., & Georgiadis, A. (2018). Spectrally Efficient 4-PAM Ambient FM Backscattering for Wireless Sensing and RFID Applications. In 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS (pp. 266-269). (IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439284

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