Monitoring a product’s or container’s temperature through the supply chain to ensure that a critical temperature has been maintained or avoided is an existing sensing application that can increase with the right product. Blue Spark Technologies and IDS Microchip have developed a design solution: a battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID tag reference design. The design uses Blue Spark Technologies’ printed batteries and IDS Microchip’s SL900A RFID chips to enable real-time time-and-temperature monitoring and data logging of consumables. The printed battery is a1.5V/cell carbon-zinc MnO2 chemistry in a co-planar architecture for easy integration that operates from -30 to +50° C. The RFID tag operates over a frequency range 860 to 960 MHz and temperature range of -40°C to +125°C.
For more information about Blue Spark Technologies printed batteries, click here.
For more information about IDS Microchip’s sensory RFID chips and the SL900A smart data logger board, click here
Filed Under: Sensor Tips, Batteries
