High-Speed Readout Method of ID Information on a Large Amount of Electronic Tags

Wataru Nagate Masahiro Sasabe Hirotaka Nakano

In Proc. of SPIE 6387, Next-Generation Communication and Sensor Networks, 2006

Abstract

An electronic tag such as RFID is expected to create new services that cannot be achieved by the traditional bar code. Specifically, in a distribution system, simultaneous readout method of a large amount of electronic tags embedded in products is required to reduce costs and time. In this paper, we propose novel methods, called Response Probability Control (RPC), to accomplish this requirement. In RPC, a reader firstly sends an ID request to electronic tags in its access area. It successes reading information on a tag only if other tags do not respond. To improve the readout efficiency, the reader appropriately controls the response probability in accordance with the number of tags. However, this approach cannot entirely avoid a collision of multiple responses. When a collision occurs, ID information is lost. To reduce the amount of lost data, we divide the ID registration process into two steps. The reader first gathers the former part of the original ID, called temporal ID, according to the above method. After obtaining the temporal ID, it sequentially collects the latter part of ID, called remaining ID, based on the temporal ID. Note that we determine the number of bits of a temporal ID in accordance with the number of tags in the access area so that each tag can be distinguishable. Through simulation experiments, we evaluate RPC in terms of the readout efficiency. Simulation results show that RPC can accomplish the readout efficiency 1.17 times higher than the traditional method where there are a thousand of electronic tags whose IDs are 128 bits.

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Wataru Nagate, Masahiro Sasabe, Hirotaka Nakano, High-Speed Readout Method of ID Information on a Large Amount of Electronic Tags, Proc. of SPIE 6387, Next-Generation Communication and Sensor Networks, pp.1-11, October 2006.

BibTex Reference

@inproceedings{nagate06HighSpeedReadoutMethod,
    author = "Nagate, Wataru and Sasabe, Masahiro and Nakano, Hirotaka",
    editor = "Atiquzzaman, Mohammed and Balandin, Sergey I.",
    title = "High-{{Speed Readout Method}} of {{ID Information}} on a {{Large Amount}} of {{Electronic Tags}}",
    booktitle = "Proc. of {{SPIE}} 6387, {{Next-Generation Communication}} and {{Sensor Networks}}",
    year = "2006",
    month = "October",
    pages = "1--11",
    doi = "10.1117/12.685791"
}