Printed RFID

PRINTED RFID IS NOW A PRACTICAL PROPOSITION 

This week I attended the Advanced Engineering event at the NEC.  In the Printed Electronics pavilion I saw live printing of about 30 passive RFID tags on a single A4 sheet of paper.  The individual printed tags were then read using standard RFID technology.  

I brought the sheet home and took the picture below of 2 of the tags

The integrated circuit and the aerial are printed using dot-matrix style technology.  It is an additive process rather than the etching process used with traditional ICs 

The printer looked very similar to the Office printer that I have in my study 

The technology was demonstrated by Printed Electronics Ltd and Invotec. To be able to demonstrate so easily in a show environment is really impressive - Well Done

Printed RFID has been around for some time - but seeing it done so easily with office printer (like) technology on A4 paper was brilliant. This could be revolutionary

#postal
#identification

Written by Richard Wishart