S-band Testbed for 5G Epidermal RFIDs

RFID-based epidermal electronics for healthcare applications, if integrated within the next-generation (5G) wireless network, could enable new sensing abilities characterized by high-speed transfer of data, small sizes, and reduced complexity. Within the 5G spectrum, the S-band allows to design antennas with small footprint and higher gains than UHF-RFIDs. This paper introduces, therefore, a 5G-RFID experimental setup to investigate the performance of epidermal RFID tags operating at S-band.

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