Passive RFID tag with sensing and reasoning capabilities for building automation

In this work SPARTACUS a novel Passive RFID augmented device useful to be adopted in challenging IoT contexts like the building automation is presented. While being completely passive, the novel RFID tag conjugates identification, sensing, local computing, and actuation control and enables a proactive communication with any standard RFID reader. Thanks to a specific electromagnetic design and exploiting polarization diversity of two antennas performing both energy harvesting and communication, SPARTACUS ensures compactness, energy-efficiency, and ease of use. © 2016 University of Split, FESB