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11 - A Battery-less Backscatter Remote Control System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Alírio Soares Boaventura  and
Nuno Borges Carvalho
Alírio Soares Boaventura
Affiliation:
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Nuno Borges Carvalho
Affiliation:
University of Aveiro, Portugal
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Summary

Chapter 11 concludes the book with an elegant demonstration of wireless power transfer and backscatter communication applied to a practical problem by proposing and prototyping a remote control system that operates without batteries or other local power source in the remote control unit.

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battery-less RFIDprototypesRFID applicationsremote controlbattery-free radioeco-friendly
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Radio Frequency Identification Engineering
How to Engineer an RFID Reader
 , pp. 232 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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