System Architecture for Mobile-phone-readable RF Memory Tags

We have developed an open architecture platform for implementing passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags with a mass memory. Purposes for such mass memory tags are, e.g., multimedia files embedded in advertisements or logged sensor data on a low-power sensor node. In the proposed architecture, a mobile phone acts as the reader that can read or write the memory of these RFID tags. The architecture is designed so that development path to a full Network on Terminal Architecture (NoTA) is feasible. The wireless reading speed of the mass memory tags, demonstrated to be 112 Mbit/s, is in range that a 3-minute VGA size video can be loaded from the tag to the phone in less than 10 s.

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