Novel RFID Conformal Tag Antennas for Liquid Level Detection Applications

Authors

  • Bassant H. El Swiefy Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt
  • M. I. Ahmed Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt
  • Hala El Sadek Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt
  • Wagdy R. Anis Department of Electronics and Communication Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt

Keywords:

Conformal, microstrip, RFID tag, tank, Vivaldi

Abstract

Detection of liquid level in large tanks is presented in this paper. The liquid level is detected using a transmitter and RFID tag antennas as a receiver. The transmitter antenna is a Vivaldi with wide bandwidth from 0.5 GHz to 3 GHz. The Vivaldi antenna is fabricated on FR4 with εr = 4.3 and thickness of 0.8 mm. Two conformal RFID tag antennas are used as receiver antennas. The conformal antenna is placed on Rogers Ultram 3850 flexible substrates with εr = 2.9 and a thickness of 0.1016 mm. The conformal antenna is designed to set on a cylindrical tank made from PVC material. The first tag works at 0.9 GHz and the second tag works at 2.45 GHz. Water and Oil are used as liquids for testing. The antennas are simulated using CST microwave studio simulator Ver.14. The system is also fabricated and measured. Good agreement is achieved between simulated and measured results.

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Author Biographies

Bassant H. El Swiefy, Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt

Bassant Hesham Elswiefy received a B.Sc. degree, with grade excellent with honors, in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Higher Technological Institute, Egypt in 2014. She has joined the Electronics Research Instute (ERI) since 2016 as an Research

M. I. Ahmed, Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt

Mohamed Ismail Ahmed received a B.Sc. degree, with grade very good with honors, in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt in 1998. He was awarded the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 2007. His M.Sc. area was in design, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of fractal microstrip patch antennas. He received a Ph.D. degree in the area of design and implementation of wideband antenna array based on electromagnetics band gap structures (EBG) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Currently, he is a Researcher Assistant at the Microstrip Department, Cairo, Egypt in 2015. He has joined the Electronics Research Instute (ERI) since 1999 as an Assistant Researcher. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Researcher in the Prince Sultan for Advanced Technology Research Institute (PSATRI), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include the design, simulation, and fabrication of microstrip antenna array for wideband applications in the microwave band. Aslo, he interests in antenna mutual coupling reduction using EBG and DGS.

Hala El Sadek, Department of Microstrip Circuits Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, 11483, Egypt

Hala Elsadek Professor and Dept. Head at Electronics Research Institute. She had her master degree, Japan, 1996 while Ph.D. with University of California, Irvine, USA, 2002. Her research interests are in RF wireless communications, electromagnetic engineering and microstrip antenna systems. She has six books and six patents. She is a single and co-author in more than 150 Research papers. Elsadek participates in more than 35 research and development projects at the national and international levels. She is awarded several prizes as Women in Innovation Certificate, Egypt, 2018, Silver Medal from 10th international invention Fair in the Middle East, 2018, Cambridge International College, Certificate of Recognition, 2017, Award of Recognition in the Fourth Cairo Innovates Exhibition 2017 and Award for the First Best Researcher in Electronics Research Institute in 2019. She is included in several biographical indexes and acts as reviewer in many international societies in her field as IEEE AP-S and MTT.

Wagdy R. Anis, Department of Electronics and Communication Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt

Wagdy Refaat Anis Emeritus Professor at Electronics Engineering and Electrical Communications. Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He had master degree, Japan, 1973 while Ph.D. at 1977.

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Published

2020-10-01

How to Cite

[1]
Bassant H. El Swiefy, M. I. Ahmed, Hala El Sadek, and Wagdy R. Anis, “Novel RFID Conformal Tag Antennas for Liquid Level Detection Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 1255–1263, Oct. 2020.

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2020: Vol 35 Iss 10

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