EP4416851A1 - Lecteur rfid et dispositif complémentaire associé - Google Patents
Lecteur rfid et dispositif complémentaire associéInfo
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- EP4416851A1 EP4416851A1 EP22800665.6A EP22800665A EP4416851A1 EP 4416851 A1 EP4416851 A1 EP 4416851A1 EP 22800665 A EP22800665 A EP 22800665A EP 4416851 A1 EP4416851 A1 EP 4416851A1
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- G06K19/0723—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
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Definitions
- RFID reader and associated complementary device
- the present invention relates to the field of RFID communication systems (for “radio-identification”, from the English “radio frequency identification”). It finds for particularly advantageous applications the field of communications between a reader and passive UHF RFID transponders and the field of the Internet of Things (in English (the) Internet of Things or loT).
- Radio Frequency Identification is a wireless data collection technology that is becoming very popular in many service, logistics, manufacturing, and security industries.
- An RFID system is made up of at least one reader (or interrogator) and one transponder (or tag) both exchanging information wirelessly.
- the transponder is generally fixed or linked to an object to be detected or monitored.
- the reader acts as a base station, interacting with the transponder to read or write information.
- the reader transfers energy wirelessly to the transponder by sending a power radio frequency (RF) which the transponder can take advantage of to get a power supply to operate and respond to a certain frequency using the backscatter modulation technique.
- RF radio frequency
- the passive UHF RFID transponder is equivalent to an antenna charged by a chip (integrated circuit).
- One of the tasks the chip can perform is rectification, a function by which the chip obtains energy to function as a transponder.
- a rectifier then converts the alternating current generated by the RF waves sent by the reader into direct current allowing the chip to carry out the rest of its functions as a transponder.
- the architecture of the rectifier is generally based on a Cockcroft-Walton type circuit with two or more diode voltage doubler stages. The presence of these diodes determines the nonlinear behavior of the chip. Another task of the chip is to generate a response signal to the reader using the backscatter modulation technique. This task is also performed by non-linear components such as transistors.
- the expression “passive RFID transponder” also designates a so-called semi-passive RFID transponder, the latter being able to communicate in exactly the same way as a passive RFID transponder, but with an energy source different, alternative or complementary, relative to that constituted by the radio frequency (RF) power received, to allow it to improve the reading range and/or allow additional functionalities.
- the expression “passive RFID transponder” also includes an RFID transponder which uses the backscatter modulation technique to communicate with the reader, but whose chip is powered by another energy source such as a battery incorporated in the transponder or any other device using an external energy source such as a photovoltaic or vibratory source for example.
- Such transponders are also called “passive battery-assisted tags”, or “semi-passive tags”, and correspond to class 3 transponders according to the world standardization organization EPC.
- the chip does not need to include a rectifier to obtain continuous power from the RF signal emitted by the reader.
- the non-linear behavior of the chip generates harmonic signals which are backscattered by the antenna of the tag.
- the presence of these backscattered harmonics was not exploited, i.e. the reader and the transponder were designed to process only the fundamental frequency and not the harmonics.
- RFID communication systems can be designed to handle not only the fundamental frequency, but also the harmonics.
- Such an RFID communication system is for example envisaged in the patent document WO2014072812 A2 which proposes exploiting the presence of harmonics in the response signal of the transponders.
- the signals at the interrogation frequency and at the harmonic frequency can be used to communicate different information, for example an identification code via the signal at the interrogation frequency and sensor measurement data via the signal at the harmonic frequency.
- An object of the present invention is therefore to propose an RFID communication system which makes it possible to overcome at least one of the drawbacks of the state of the art.
- an object of the present invention is to provide an RFID communication system: - which makes it possible to process both the response of a transponder at the fundamental interrogation frequency and the response of the transponder at at least one harmonic frequency, and/or
- an additional communication device intended to be coupled to an RFID reader operating at a fundamental frequency f 0 , the additional device being essentially such that 'He understands :
- An RF antenna for receiving, in response to an interrogation signal emitted at the fundamental frequency fo by the RFID reader, a response signal backscattered at a harmonic frequency by a transponder, the response signal backscattered at a harmonic frequency being at the frequency nxf 0 where n is an integer defining the order of the considered harmonic,
- a first electronic circuit intended to be arranged at the output of the RFID reader to take an image of said interrogation signal
- a second electronic circuit functionally connected to the first electronic circuit, to generate a signal at the frequency (n-1)xf 0 from the image of the interrogation signal
- a third electronic circuit operatively connected to the second electronic circuit and to the RF antenna of the complementary device, for generating a down-converted backscattered signal, from the backscattered response signal at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 and depending on the signal at the frequency (n-1)xf 0 previously generated, the downconverted backscattered signal being generated so as to be brought back to the fundamental frequency fo and being intended to be injected, directly or indirectly, at the input of the RFID reader for processing , so that the RFID reader can extract information carried by the backscattered response signal.
- the RFID reader equipped with the additional device as introduced above to detect the harmonic signals retro-modulated by the interrogated RFID transponders, and to process them to make them usable directly by any RFID reader. It is therefore permitted to equip any RFID reader with new functionalities thanks to appropriate electronic and/or computer processing, by equipping it with the additional device as introduced above.
- the complementary device as introduced above may further comprise, when the downconverted backscattered signal is intended to be injected indirectly at the input of the RFID reader for processing, an electronic combiner, functionally connected to the third circuit electronic and intended to be arranged at the input of the RFID reader for:
- a second aspect of the invention relates to an RFID reader, preferably an Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID reader, operating at the fundamental frequency fo and comprising a complementary RFID communication device as introduced above to allow the detection and the processing of at least one harmonic signal backscattered by an interrogated RFID transponder, so as to extract therefrom information carried by the backscattered harmonic signal.
- UHF Ultra High Frequency
- a third aspect of the invention relates to an RFID communication system comprising an RFID reader according to the second aspect of the invention and a plurality of RFID transponders.
- the plurality of RFID transponders may be conventional off-the-shelf RFID transponders.
- FIG. 1 represents a block diagram of the electronic circuits of a complementary device according to the first aspect of the invention which can be inserted into an RFID reader.
- FIG. 2 represents an example of electronic architecture of a complementary device according to the first aspect of the invention which can be inserted into an RFID reader.
- FIG. 3 represents the example of FIG. 2 configured for the detection and processing of the third harmonic of the signal back-modulated by an RFID transponder.
- Figure 4 shows a variant of the example of figure 2 comprising an electronic combiner.
- Figure 5 represents the example of Figure 2 configured for the detection and processing of the second harmonic of the signal back-modulated by an RFID transponder.
- the electronic combiner is configured for a modulus- and/or phase-weighted combination of the backscattered response signal at the fundamental frequency fo and the down-converted backscattered signal.
- the electronic combiner is configured for an alternating combination of the backscattered response signal at the fundamental frequency fo and the down-converted backscattered signal.
- the response signal backscattered at the fundamental frequency f and the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency n*f 0 carry the same information.
- the first electronic circuit comprises an electronic coupler.
- the second electronic circuit successively comprises:
- An electronic frequency multiplier functionally connected to an output of the first electronic circuit and configured to multiply the frequency of the image of the interrogation signal by a factor equal to n-1,
- a band-pass filter configured to filter the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied and amplified by allowing a frequency interval centered on the frequency (n-1)xf 0 to pass
- the third electronic circuit comprises, at the output, an electronic amplifier for amplifying the output signal of the third electronic circuit, an output of the electronic amplifier being intended to be connected, directly or indirectly, to the input of the RFID reader.
- the complementary device thus makes it possible to raise the level of the backscattered signal converted downwards before being injected into the input of the RFID reader for processing.
- the third electronic circuit comprises a band-pass filter configured to filter the signal passing through it by allowing a frequency interval centered on the fundamental frequency fo to pass.
- the additional device thus makes it possible to prevent the transposition of ambient 4G LTE frequencies into the frequency band dedicated to UHF RFID (whether ETSI (for European Telecommunications Standards Institute) or FCC (for Federal Communications Commission, or in French: Federal Communications Commission)).
- the third electronic circuit comprises successively:
- a low-noise electronic amplifier functionally connected to the RF antenna of the complementary device and configured to amplify the backscattered response signal at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 ,
- a band-pass filter configured to filter the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified by allowing a frequency interval centered on the frequency nxf 0 to pass
- a notch filter configured to filter the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified and filtered by not letting through a frequency interval centered on the fundamental frequency fo,
- An electronic mixer functionally connected to an output of the second electronic circuit and configured to combine the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified and doubly filtered and the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied, amplified and filtered by the second electronic circuit,
- the bandpass filter configured to filter the output signal of the electronic mixer
- the electronic amplifier to amplify the output signal of the electronic mixer as previously filtered.
- the integer n is equal to 3 so that the frequency harmonic nxf 0 corresponds to the third harmonic backscattered signal.
- each backscattered signal is more particularly a back-modulated signal.
- the complementary device further comprises at least one electronic circulator. More particularly, the complementary device comprises at least two circulators, preferably three circulators, among:
- At least one second circulator preferably two circulators, connected in series, arranged downstream of the first electronic circuit and intended to be connected, directly or indirectly, to an RF antenna of the RFID reader.
- This patent application relates to a new radiofrequency system for detecting and processing the signals generated by retro-modulation by the transponders interrogated by an RFID reader.
- the goal here is to exploit the presence of these harmonics by a specific RF hardware architecture, allowing the detection and electronic processing not only of the response signal backscattered at the fundamental frequency fo (see “Response fo”), but also of at least one response signal backscattered at a harmonic frequency (Cf. "Response nfo”), before injecting them into the traditional reception chain of an RFID reader 2.
- the joint use of the signal at the fundamental frequency (Cf "Response fo") of reader 2 and signals at harmonic frequencies (Cf. "Response nfo”) makes it possible to improve the performance of reader 2 as quantified, for example, by the reading rate or the error rate binary in the presence of noise.
- the addition of the complementary device 1 according to the first aspect of the invention to a conventional RFID reader 2 opens the way to equipping the conventional reader with new functionalities thanks to appropriate software processing.
- the first aspect of the invention relates to an additional device 1 intended to be fitted to an RFID reader 2 whether the latter is conventional or being designed.
- the complementary device 1 according to the first aspect of the invention has an RF antenna 11 and electronic circuits 12, 13 and 14 which can be inserted into an RFID reader, connected to the other electronic components of the RFID reader, and arranged together according to a diagram functional as shown in Figure 1.
- the complementary device 1 comprises:
- An RF antenna 11 to receive, in response to an interrogation signal (cf. "Interrogation fo") emitted at the fundamental frequency fo by the RFID reader 2, a response signal backscattered at a harmonic frequency (cf. "Answer nfo”) by a transponder 3,
- a first electronic circuit 12 intended to be arranged at the output of the RFID reader 2 to take an image of said interrogation signal
- a second electronic circuit 13 functionally connected to the first electronic circuit 12, to generate a signal at the frequency (n-1)xf 0 from the image of the interrogation signal, and
- a third electronic circuit 14 functionally connected to the second electronic circuit 13 and to the RF antenna 11 of the complementary device 1, to generate a down-converted backscattered signal, from the backscattered response signal at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 and as a function of the signal at the frequency (n-1)xf 0 previously generated.
- the response signal backscattered at a harmonic frequency is at the frequency n ⁇ f 0 where n is an integer defining the order of the harmonic considered.
- the down-converted backscattered signal is generated so as to be brought back to the fundamental frequency fo and is intended to be injected, directly or indirectly, at the input of the RFID reader 2 for processing.
- the functional diagram of the complementary device 1 does not necessarily include an electronic combiner 15 and the signal to be processed passes directly from the output of the third electronic circuit 14 to the input of the RFID reader 2.
- the electronic components and the connection lines shown in long dashes in FIG. 1 indicate their optionality in the functional diagram of the complementary device 1.
- the RF antenna 21 has been represented in a cloud to illustrate the fact that it does not belong to the complementary device 1, but to the RFID reader 2.
- Two different modalities are considered to combine between the backscattered response signal at the fundamental frequency fo and the down-converted backscattered signal.
- the choice of one or other of these methods can be set by the user.
- the electronic combiner 15 is configured for a weighted combination in modulus and/or in phase of the response signal backscattered at the fundamental frequency fo and of the backscattered signal converted downwards.
- the electronic combiner 15 is configured for a combination by alternation of the response signal backscattered at the fundamental frequency fo and of the backscattered signal converted downwards.
- the variant of the complementary device 1 comprising an electronic combiner 15 makes it possible to increase, or at the very least to test, the robustness with which the complementary device detects and processes the considered harmonic.
- the RFID reader 2 according to the second aspect of the invention can be a conventional commercial RFID reader to which the complementary device 1 according to the first aspect of the invention has been added or an RFID reader which from its conception includes the complementary device 1 according to the first aspect of the invention.
- the present invention proposes a solution making it possible to "modernize” these RFID readers already deployed, without requiring replacement, but simply adding to their electronic architecture. electronic components of complementary device 1 according to the first aspect of the invention.
- the second aspect of the present invention covers both of these possibilities.
- the first electronic circuit 12 may comprise, or even consist of, an electronic coupler 121. It should be noted here that, on either side of the first electronic circuit 12, there may be provided at least two, or even three, electronic circulators 161, 162 and 163 .
- a first circulator 161 arranged upstream of the first electronic circuit 12 and intended to be connected, directly or indirectly, to the input of the RFID reader 2, and
- the second electronic circuit 13 may successively comprise:
- An electronic frequency multiplier 131 functionally connected to an output of the first electronic circuit and configured to multiply the frequency of the image of the interrogation signal by a factor equal to n - 1,
- An electronic amplifier 132 to amplify the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied
- a band-pass filter 133 configured to filter the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied and amplified by allowing a frequency interval centered on the frequency (n-1)xf 0 to pass, and
- a notch filter 134 configured to filter the residue of the signal at the fundamental frequency resulting from the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied, amplified and filtered so as not to let pass a frequency interval centered on the fundamental frequency fo.
- FIG. 13 Other electronic diagrams of the second electronic circuit 13 can, if necessary, be envisaged. These other diagrams implement, for example, the same electronic functions as those of the various components 131 to 134 listed above, but in a different order and/or with an adaptation of said functions which are deemed to fall within the ordinary skills of man. of career. For example, when n>2, obtaining the frequency (n-1)xf 0 may require such an adaptation. In addition, such other electronic diagrams may allow the implementation of other functions in particular filtration, multiplication and/or amplification, as an alternative or in addition to the electronic functions of the various components 131 to 134 listed above. Furthermore, note that, to receive an RF signal at the harmonic frequency 2f0, the multiplier 131 is not necessary. In this case, and as illustrated in figure 5, the second electronic circuit 13 can even be reduced to a simple connection wire between an output of the electronic coupler 121 and an input of the electronic mixer (or mixer) 144.
- the third electronic circuit 14 includes at least one of a band pass filter 145 and an electronic amplifier 146.
- the third electronic circuit 14 may in fact comprise the band-pass filter 145 mentioned above.
- the latter is then configured to filter the signal passing through it by allowing a frequency interval centered on the fundamental frequency fo to pass.
- the complementary device 1 thus makes it possible to prevent the transposition of ambient 4G LTE frequencies into the frequency band dedicated to the UHF RFID method (whether ETSI or FCC). Interference is thus avoided between the 4G LTE communication techniques and the RFID communication technique (preferably UHF) implemented in the case of the present invention, such interference being all the more to be dealt with as the environment application of the RFID communication system can induce very severe signal reflections, for example in the presence of metal and water, and in environments with a high level of humidity.
- the third electronic circuit 14 may comprise, at output, the aforementioned electronic amplifier 146, the latter is configured to amplify the output signal of the third electronic circuit 14. An output of the electronic amplifier 146 is then intended to be connected, directly or indirectly, at the input of the RFID reader 2.
- the complementary device 1 thus makes it possible to raise the level of the backscattered signal converted downwards before being injected at the input of the RFID reader 2 for its processing.
- the third electronic circuit 14 successively comprises, according to its embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2:
- a low-noise electronic amplifier 141 functionally connected to the RF antenna 11 of the complementary device 1 and configured to amplify the backscattered response signal at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 ,
- a band-pass filter 142 configured to filter the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified by allowing a frequency interval centered on the frequency nxf 0 to pass,
- a notch filter 143 configured to filter the backscattered response signal at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified and filtered by not allowing a frequency interval centered on the fundamental frequency f 0 to pass,
- An electronic mixer 144 functionally connected to an output of the second electronic circuit 13 and configured to combine the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 as previously amplified and doubly filtered and the image of the interrogation signal as previously multiplied , amplified and filtered by the second electronic circuit 13,
- the band pass filter 145 configured to filter the output signal of the electronic mixer 144
- the electronic amplifier 146 to amplify the output signal of the electronic mixer 144 as previously filtered.
- band-stop filter 143 makes it possible to cancel all parasitic components at the frequency f 0 , that emitted by the RFID reader 2 (of the order of a watt) and/or that coupled on the channel n*fo (of the order of a few tens of nanowatts) resulting from the retro-modulation of the transponder 3 at the frequency fo.
- the level of the signals fo emitted by the RFID reader 2, as well as that of the signals generated by retro-modulation by the transponder 3, are much higher than the level of the signal at the harmonic frequency n*fo generated by the transponder 3.
- the third electronic circuit 14, thanks in particular to its notch filter 143, thus has the advantage of ensuring that the down-converted backscattered signal, generated by the third electronic circuit 14 and intended to be injected in input of the RFID reader 2, is not, or is much less, affected by the unavoidable presence of signals from higher levels. This ultimately ensures a satisfactory quality of reading of the information carried by the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency n*fo.
- FIG. 3 illustrates nothing other than the electronic architecture represented in FIG. 2 for a value of the integer n is equal to 3 so that the harmonic frequency n ⁇ f 0 corresponds to the third harmonic backscattered signal.
- FIG. 4 illustrates nothing other than the electronic architecture represented in FIG. 2 to which has been added, in a suitable manner, the electronic combiner 15 as described above with reference to FIG. 1. It is observed, in FIG. 4, that a first input of the combiner 15 is directly connected to the output of the third electronic circuit 14 and that a second input of the combiner 15 is connected to the RF antenna 21 of the RFID reader 2, if necessary by through an electronic circulator such as the aforementioned electronic circulator 163; the output of the combiner 15 is for its part connected to the input of the RFID reader 2, where appropriate via an electronic circulator such as the electronic circulator 161 mentioned above.
- a third aspect of the invention relates to an RFID communication system comprising an RFID reader 2 according to the second aspect of the invention and a plurality of RFID transponders 3.
- the invention is particularly suitable to an implementation within the framework of the communication technology known under the acronym RFID UHF.
- the RFID transponders 3 of the aforementioned plurality are preferably UHF RFID transponders.
- the present invention makes it possible to exploit the harmonic signals of RFID transponders regardless of their design. It can thus advantageously be conventional RFID transponders on the market, and not necessarily RFID transponders specially designed to allow exploitation of harmonic signals.
- the response signal backscattered at the fundamental frequency fo and the response signal backscattered at the harmonic frequency nxf 0 carry the same information, which seems necessary when the second modality mentioned above is implemented for the electronic combiner 15, it is not however excluded that these signals carry different information between them; this last possibility being for example compatible with the implementation of the above-mentioned first modality for the electronic combiner 15.
- first complementary device and a second complementary device one specific to a harmonic order different from the other, be intended to equip the RFID reader.
- a switch arranged in the first and second complementary devices can be configured to allow the RFID reader to alternately exploit the harmonic of a given order, then the other.
- the harmonics of the two different orders between them are exploited jointly.
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