A Folded Monopole Shaped Novel Soil Moisture and Salinity Sensor for Precision Agriculture Based Chipless RFID Applications

This paper focuses on the design and analysis of an inexpensive novel chipless RFID sensing scheme for soil moisture and salinity content detection. The sensor is designed at the UHF RFID band so that it can be tweaked easily to a chip-based RFID sensor. Alongside the designed sensor, a theoretical...

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Main Authors: Dey, Shuvashis (Author), Bhattacharyya, Rahul (Author), Karmakar, Nemai (Author), Sarma, Sanjay E (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Auto-ID Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-10-08T21:49:58Z.
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