A Novel Passive Wireless Sensing Method for Concrete Chloride Ion Concentration Monitoring
In this paper, a novel approach for concrete chloride ion concentration measuring based on passive and wireless sensor tag is proposed. The chloride ion sensor based on RFID communication protocol is consisting of an energy harvesting and management circuit, a low dropout voltage regulator, a MCU, a...
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doaj-39e1cc7bbbd04115ba94b30d611b105c2020-11-24T21:11:47ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202017-12-011712287110.3390/s17122871s17122871A Novel Passive Wireless Sensing Method for Concrete Chloride Ion Concentration MonitoringShuangxi Zhou0Wei Sheng1Fangming Deng2Xiang Wu3Zhihui Fu4School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, ChinaSchool of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, ChinaSchool of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, ChinaSchool of Electrical and Automation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, ChinaIn this paper, a novel approach for concrete chloride ion concentration measuring based on passive and wireless sensor tag is proposed. The chloride ion sensor based on RFID communication protocol is consisting of an energy harvesting and management circuit, a low dropout voltage regulator, a MCU, a RFID tag chip and a pair of electrodes. The proposed sensor harvests energy radiated by the RFID reader to power its circuitry. To improve the stability of power supply, a three-stage boost rectifier is customized to rectify the harvested power into dc power and step-up the voltage. Since the measured data is wirelessly transmitted, it contains miscellaneous noises which would decrease the accuracy of measuring. Thus, in this paper, the wavelet denoising method is adopted to denoise the raw data. Besides, a monitoring software is developed to display the measurement results in real-time. The measurement results indicate that the proposed passive sensor tag can achieve a reliable communication distance of 16.3 m and can reliably measure the chloride ion concentration in concrete.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/12/2871RFID technologywireless measuringconcrete chloride ion concentrationmonitoring |
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A Novel Passive Wireless Sensing Method for Concrete Chloride Ion Concentration Monitoring |
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A Novel Passive Wireless Sensing Method for Concrete Chloride Ion Concentration Monitoring |
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A Novel Passive Wireless Sensing Method for Concrete Chloride Ion Concentration Monitoring |
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In this paper, a novel approach for concrete chloride ion concentration measuring based on passive and wireless sensor tag is proposed. The chloride ion sensor based on RFID communication protocol is consisting of an energy harvesting and management circuit, a low dropout voltage regulator, a MCU, a RFID tag chip and a pair of electrodes. The proposed sensor harvests energy radiated by the RFID reader to power its circuitry. To improve the stability of power supply, a three-stage boost rectifier is customized to rectify the harvested power into dc power and step-up the voltage. Since the measured data is wirelessly transmitted, it contains miscellaneous noises which would decrease the accuracy of measuring. Thus, in this paper, the wavelet denoising method is adopted to denoise the raw data. Besides, a monitoring software is developed to display the measurement results in real-time. The measurement results indicate that the proposed passive sensor tag can achieve a reliable communication distance of 16.3 m and can reliably measure the chloride ion concentration in concrete. |
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RFID technology wireless measuring concrete chloride ion concentration monitoring |
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