Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID

Description

The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is the first of a new class of RF-powered sensing and computing systems. Rather than being powered by batteries, these sensor systems are powered by radio waves that are either deliberately broadcast or ambient. Enabled by ongoing exponential improvements in the energy efficiency of microelectronics, RF-powered sensing and computing is rapidly moving along a trajectory from impossible (in the recent past), to feasible (today), toward practical and commonplace (in the near future). This book is a collection of key papers on RF-powered sensing and computing systems including the WISP. Several of the papers grew out of the WISP Challenge, a program in which Intel Corporation donated WISPs to academic applicants who proposed compelling WISP-based projects. The book also includes papers presented at the first WISP Summit, a workshop held in Berkeley, CA in association with the ACM Sensys conference, as well as other relevant papers. The book provides a window into the fascinating new world of wirelessly powered sensing and computing. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Range Scaling of Wirelessly Powered Sensor Systems....Pages 3-12 History of the WISP Program....Pages 13-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform....Pages 33-56 SOCWISP: A 9 μA, Addressable Gen2 Sensor Tag for Biosignal Acquisition....Pages 57-78 Battery-less Wireless Sensors Based on Low Power UHF RFID Tags....Pages 79-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Passive RFID-Based Wake-Up Radios for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 113-129 BAT: Backscatter Anything-to-Tag Communication....Pages 131-142 Implementing the Gen 2 MAC on the Intel-UW WISP....Pages 143-156 WISP Monitoring and Debugging....Pages 157-172 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Maximalist Cryptography and Computation on the WISP UHF RFID Tag....Pages 175-187 Security Enhanced WISPs: Implementation Challenges....Pages 189-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Power Optimized Waveforms that Enhance the Range of Energy-Harvesting Sensors....Pages 207-222 Wireless Ambient Radio Power....Pages 223-234 A Portable Transmitter for Wirelessly Powering a Ventricular Assist Device Using the Free-Range Resonant Electrical Energy Delivery (FREE-D) System....Pages 235-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 PORFIDO: Using Neutrino Telescopes and RFID to Gather Oceanographic Data....Pages 251-258 RFID-Vox: A Tribute to Leon Theremin....Pages 259-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-271