Researchers from MIT, Harvard, University of Washington and Duke University work together to develop solutions with battery-free sensors to be used as a source of data for Internet of Things.
The solutions includes Farsens’s battery-free tags (Hydro for soil moisture monitoring) and data collection is managed via RFID reader equipped drones. The classic short-range communication issue is this way addressed by the reader capability to move autonomously.
Farsens offers evaluation boards to test the existing RFID ICs.
They are designed to test the RF energy harvesting performance, communication protocols, response times, etc. and preliminarily help validate the chip without having to develop your own design.
The Spider is an evaluation board for the ANDY100 UHF RFID IC.
The Spider includes the ANDY100 RFID tag chip and a start-up circuit to allow developers to work directly with SPI sensors or connect a microcontroller of their choice for further processing.
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