WPT and NFC Interoperability for Wearables with Miniaturized Coils

Richard Fischbacher; Jose Romero Lopera; David Pommerenke; Ralph Prestros; Bernhard Auinger; Wolfgang Bosch; Jasmin Grosinger

doi:10.1109/RFID-TA58140.2023.10290616

WPT and NFC Interoperability for Wearables with Miniaturized Coils

Richard Fischbacher^*
, Jose Romero Lopera
, David Pommerenke
, Ralph Prestros
, Bernhard Auinger
, Wolfgang Bosch
, Jasmin Grosinger

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

This work presents a circuit-level interoperability investigation of a wireless power transfer (WPT) and near-field communication (NFC) system using miniature coils suited for wearables. Interoperability could enable NFC to provide a communication link for a WPT system or enable secure pairing between a wearable and a WPT transmitter. The WPT and NFC circuitries are built in a circuit-level simulation tool. The coils are modeled by a broadband equivalent circuit model, which excellently agrees with measurements from 0.1 to 500 MHz. The resulting equivalent circuit model is used to investigate the tag-to-reader communication quality via in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) demodulation and signal constellation diagrams. It is shown that applying inductive decoupling techniques between WPT and NFC coils and altering the I/Q demodulation filter cut-off frequency can significantly improve the tag-to-reader communication quality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 IEEE 13th International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, RFID-TA 2023 - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	33-36
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350333534
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA58140.2023.10290616
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	13th IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications: RFID-TA 2023 - Aveiro, Portugal Duration: 4 Sept 2023 → 6 Sept 2023

Conference

Conference	13th IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Aveiro
Period	4/09/23 → 6/09/23

Keywords

Interoperability
NFC
WPT

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

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10.1109/RFID-TA58140.2023.10290616

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Fischbacher, R, Lopera, JR, Pommerenke, D, Prestros, R, Auinger, B , Bosch, W & Grosinger, J 2023, WPT and NFC Interoperability for Wearables with Miniaturized Coils. in 2023 IEEE 13th International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, RFID-TA 2023 - Proceedings. IEEE, pp. 33-36, 13th IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications, Aveiro, Portugal, 4/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA58140.2023.10290616

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WPT and NFC Interoperability for Wearables with Miniaturized Coils

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