A Hydrogen Concentration Monitoring System With Passive Tags

This article describes the design of a hydrogen concentration monitoring system based on ultrahigh-frequency radio-frequency identification (RFID) passive tags, which adopts ISO/IEC 18000–6 Type C standard. Tag devices have been designed by employing a microcontrol unit, making the proposed solution very suitable for low-cost hydrogen concentration measurement in wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, anti-collision capability has been realized by implementing a new true random number generator based on the hydrogen concentration sensing circuit and analog-to-digital converter, without employing any additional device. The correctness of all operations of the RFID system has been experimentally verified in a multiple-tag environment, as well as the hydrogen concentration monitoring capability. Particularly, measurement on an RFID tag prototype developed for the bandwidth 920–925 MHz has revealed that when the ambient temperature is 25 °C and humidity 80%, a maximum error of 9.8% is found within a hydrogen concentration range from 0.24% to 2.4%.

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