Quantitative Experimental Evaluation of RFID Propagation Loss with Wooden and Metal Bookshelves

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is wireless multimedia applications for bookshelves experimental system to replace the barcodes media technology. The RFID propagation channel characteristics and environment effect should be known. In this study to evaluate the RFID propagation loss with wooden and metal bookshelves based on data of measurement. Experimental study evaluation of RFID multimedia system with bookshelves is using vector network analyzer (VNA) and the microstrip patch antennas of transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) antennas at a frequency range from 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. The results of experiment are considering the path loss, received signal strength (RSS), and comparison the path loss differences with cumulative distribution function (CDF) to evaluated, respectively. In this research work are necessary for RFID antenna design and evaluate the RFID multimedia systems.