ECE 5990 RFID Systems

Course Description

This course is aimed to give an overview of the radio-frequency identification (RFID) system, including the component technology, network protocols and main applications. Although ubiquitous RFID deployment or the so-called Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been proposed for quite a long time, serious research and commercial efforts have just been booming for less than a decade.  Many countries in East Asia, Europe and North America have now dedicated special initiatives and strategic research to the RFID system and its broad potential applications in logistics, security/privacy, intelligent infrastructure, healthcare management, independent living, transportation, food traceability, and product lifecycle monitoring.

Instructor(s)

Edwin Chihchuan Kan
Room 325 Phillips Hall
Phone: 607 255-3998
Email: ECK5@cornell.edu

Prerequisite(s)

ECE 2200 and 3150.  ECE 3030, 4330, 4530, 4670 and 5790 are helpful, but not required.

As Offered In

Spring 2015

Required Text(s)

  1. M. Bolic, D. Simplot-Ryl and I. Stojmenvoic, RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges, 2010.  ISBN: 978-0-470-74602-8

Course Structure

The course consists of:

  1. Two weekly lectures
  2. Homework
  3. Prelim Exam
  4. 3 page project proposal
  5. Project presentation
  6. Final report with team oral exam
Commercial NFC tags for logistics
NFC RFID reader (5cm range and 5m range)
UHF RFID deployed for indoor intelligence
Inside UHF RFID tags: passive and semi-active