RFID Ante
RFID Antenna Performance Evaluation for Library Inventory
Management
Sung-Tsun Shih1, Chin-Ming
Hsu2, Chian-Yi Chao3
1Department of Electronic Engineering, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2Department of Information Technology, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
3Department of Electronic Engineering, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract: Three types of printed radio-frequency-identification
(RFID) antennas with the characteristics of high
gain, wide beam wave, and omnidirectional beam
wave are constructed and evaluated in this study. The objective is to
find out their best reading rates for providing effective wireless
communications among RFID antenna readers during the library book inventory
process. Three kinds of antenna readers have been fabricated
on the printed circuit board (PCB) with the operating frequency at 915 MHz,
which are tested by using vector network analyses device named Agilent PNA
N5230A and simulated by using antenna design kit named ANSOFT HFSS. The
fabricated antenna readers are embedded into different locations of bookshelves
at the library of Cheng Shiu University in Taiwan.
According to the experimental results, the designed prototypes of the antenna
readers has the characteristics of the directional radiation pattern, wide beam
wave, simple shape, good gain, low cost and easy to be integrated to the
bookshelf. They can benefit administrating librarians with the capabilities of decreasing the library
inventory processing time and reducing the possibility of the books being
misplaced.
[Sung-Tsun
Shih, Chin-Ming Hsu, Chian-Yi Chao. RFID
Antenna Performance Evaluation for Library Inventory Management. Life
Sci J 2012;9(1):13-19] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 2
Keywords: Library Inventory; radio frequency identification (RFID); Antenna
