Smart Cable for Radio Frequency Identification in Aeronautical Applications
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Smart Cable for Radio Frequency Identification in Aeronautical Applications
Thu, 28/04/2016 - 14:30
Location:
Speaker:
Victoria Gómez-Guillamón Buendía
Affiliation:
PhD Student at Heriot Watt University
Synopsis:
The design of a smart cable for aeronautical and transportation applications is proposed. The cable is designed to provide radio frequency identification (RFID) connectivity at 2.45GHz inside airplanes, subways, tunnels, etc. and can be made of radiating hotspots. In our design, each hotspot consists of two actives witches, one unequal power split coupler, and one patch antenna, except the last hotspot which consists of one switch, one patch antenna, and one load. The system ensures a uniform coverage area of 16 m length by 2.5 m height, with at least a power level of -37 dBm to be received at the tag assuming an input power of 30 dBm.
Biography:
Victoria Gómez-Guillamón Buendía was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1990. She received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, in 2015. She is currently working towards the PhD degree at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
Her research interests include techniques for efficient surface wave excitation for printed or planar antennas and leaky wave transitions for SIW structures.