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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Gui Yun TianORCiD, Dr Wai Lok Woo, Lingxiu Liu
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© 2022 Ju Xiang et al.The outbreak of COVID-19 has attracted people's attention to our healthcare system, stimulating the advancement of next-generation health monitoring technologies. IoT attracts extensive attention in this advancement for its advantage in ubiquitous communication and sensing. RFID plays a key role in IoT to tackle the challenges in passive communication and identification and is now emerging as a sensing technology which has the ability to reduce the cost and complexity of data collection. It is advantageous to introduce RFID sensor technologies in health-related sensing and monitoring, as there are many sensors used in health monitoring systems with the potential to be integrated with RFID for smart sensing and monitoring. But due to the unique characteristics of the human body, there are challenges in developing effective RFID sensors for human health monitoring in terms of communication and sensing. For example, in a typical IoT health monitoring application, the main challenges are as follows: (1) energy issues, the efficiency of RF front-end energy harvesting and power conversion is measured; (2) communication issues, the basic technology of RFID sensors shows great heterogeneity in terms of antennas, integrated circuit functions, sensing elements, and data protocols; and (3) performance stability and sensitivity issues, the RFID sensors are mainly attached to the object to be measured to carry out identification and parameter sensing. However, in practical applications, these can also be affected by certain environmental factors. This paper presents the recent advancement in RFID sensor technologies and the challenges for the IoT healthcare system. The current sensors used in health monitoring are also reviewed with regard to integrating possibility with RFID and IoT. The future research direction is pointed out for the emergence of the next-generation healthcare and monitoring system.
Author(s): Xiang J, Zhao A, Tian GY, Woo W, Liu L, Li H
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Sensors
Year: 2022
Volume: 2022
Online publication date: 27/07/2022
Acceptance date: 27/06/2022
ISSN (print): 1687-725X
ISSN (electronic): 1687-7268
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8787275
DOI: 10.1155/2022/8787275
