NICT Develops Flexible Fabric RFID Tags
NICT (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology) developed a flexible RFID tag (2.45GHz) that is mostly made of a fabric material.
Antennae commonly used for RFID tags are easily affected by metals and human bodies. Micro strip antennae, which consist of a rather thick board put in-between metal strips, can alleviate this problem but could not easily be attached on curved surfaces or human body. NICT developed a flexible micro strip antenna using a fabric material and integrated an RFID chip with this antenna. This fabric material is 10 times cheaper than the material used for regular micro strip antennae.
via NICT Press release and Nikkeip.jp
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