| Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are revolutionizing the way products and goods are tracked and traced in the supply chain. Various major retailers and government agencies have realized the potential of RFID systems and have released mandates and recommendations to their suppliers. The time constraints to meet the mandates and the lack of good, reliable, unbiased source of information has driven the need for developing a set of common benchmarks for comparing performance of tags. In this thesis, I present a comprehensive set of benchmarks developed for comparing the performance of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) passive RFID tags. Also, I present some experimental results and the key insights that these benchmarks have revealed about the current state of passive UHF RFID tags that are available in the commercial market. |
