UHF Antenna Design-build using AoA DSP, Phased array etc.
Budget: $1,500 – $3,000 USD
Looking to collaborate with Antenna experts for design/build of RFID UHF 860-960 MHz Active Digital always on antenna. It will support any RFID tags of the stated frequency range and the protocol. We have identified some possible technologies below but will rely on your expertise to pick one or combination of these or another suitable one from your experience. If you know of a pre-built solution that will be ideal.
This antenna will be connected to our MCU via a comm port and be fully software defined. Our objective is to accomplish a 0.3 meters x,y,z 3D planer precision location of RFID UHF passive tags at about 25 meter cone at about 8 meters height from floor. Must be RFID UHF Frequency range (roughly 860-960 MHz, supporting US, Europe, Asia spectrums) Applicable ISO standards like EPCglobal UHF RFID Class 1 Gen2/ISO 18000-63/6C. This may be always-on at times for wide area monitoring of RFID tags' precise locations, per requirements given here.
USA FCC Part 15 compliance is needed.
ERP, EIRP power output compliance to international standards is needed
If some 3rd party tools are used at runtime, our pre-approval, source codes and unlimited licenses be included, meeting our requirements given here. Please include some time to refine the scope,
We shall expect a professional solution with reasonable expectations of a complete system.
A. Antenna Technologies only suggested by us (you decide as experts)...
1. Active Digital phased array (Linear/planer/frequency),
2. SDR
3. Phase-of-Arrival Evaluation (Time. frequency, Spatial Domain), etc....) selection,
4. 4 patches in a quad (or 16 patches, also in a quad, 2x2 + 2x2 +2x2 + 2x2) and angle of arrival estimation from the quads or Dipole using DSP.
5. Bi-directional Electronically Steerable Phased Array
B. Submit the following with your response in order..
1. Please submit specifications of your proposed solutions with features you can add to your proposed solution, giving you an exclusive plus.
2. Please state the technology(s) you are going with as the 1st word of your response here.
3. Submit only relevant examples of past design work done (UHF RFID antenna) with rough timeline.
4. Any questions you have that we may have failed to address here.
5. Any ideas to help improve this solution results and reduce delivery time.
6. If we missed something of value, please advise. Any exceptions you take.
7. Specify any antenna design, emulation software you may need to use. You need to make it available for us to test.
8. We shall need a set of HW in our office to final test & confirm. Please include.
9. What software (if any) be used - for control, monitoring, configuring, managing of system resources at run-time? This will need to be compatible & will be integrated with our reader system eventually.
10. Please provide a test software app that emulates our reader commands/responses to prove the results gained by your antenna POC. Please let us know if you need us to provide some sample RFID tags for your testing, else we assume you will get them. Though they are available at very inexpensive price everywhere.
11. Suggest ways to improve/optimize the RFID passive tag's relative location x,y,z co-ordinates results.
12. Submit Testing procedures to verify & confirm for your satisfaction
13. Submit Testing procedures to verify & confirm for our satisfaction
14. Submit Solution's Guarantee details
15. Confirmation that you shall routinely submit complete IP, documented source code and supporting docs and user manuals etc. like for the examples products given.
16. To ensure that no AI is used in communications with us, please submit best bid amount & delivery time.
C. Please do not submit...
1. Any experience that is not about RFID UHF antenna design related. We shall let you share all this after the job.
This antenna will be connected to our MCU via a comm port and be fully software defined. Our objective is to accomplish a 0.3 meters x,y,z 3D planer precision location of RFID UHF passive tags at about 25 meter cone at about 8 meters height from floor. Must be RFID UHF Frequency range (roughly 860-960 MHz, supporting US, Europe, Asia spectrums) Applicable ISO standards like EPCglobal UHF RFID Class 1 Gen2/ISO 18000-63/6C. This may be always-on at times for wide area monitoring of RFID tags' precise locations, per requirements given here.
USA FCC Part 15 compliance is needed.
ERP, EIRP power output compliance to international standards is needed
If some 3rd party tools are used at runtime, our pre-approval, source codes and unlimited licenses be included, meeting our requirements given here. Please include some time to refine the scope,
We shall expect a professional solution with reasonable expectations of a complete system.
A. Antenna Technologies only suggested by us (you decide as experts)...
1. Active Digital phased array (Linear/planer/frequency),
2. SDR
3. Phase-of-Arrival Evaluation (Time. frequency, Spatial Domain), etc....) selection,
4. 4 patches in a quad (or 16 patches, also in a quad, 2x2 + 2x2 +2x2 + 2x2) and angle of arrival estimation from the quads or Dipole using DSP.
5. Bi-directional Electronically Steerable Phased Array
B. Submit the following with your response in order..
1. Please submit specifications of your proposed solutions with features you can add to your proposed solution, giving you an exclusive plus.
2. Please state the technology(s) you are going with as the 1st word of your response here.
3. Submit only relevant examples of past design work done (UHF RFID antenna) with rough timeline.
4. Any questions you have that we may have failed to address here.
5. Any ideas to help improve this solution results and reduce delivery time.
6. If we missed something of value, please advise. Any exceptions you take.
7. Specify any antenna design, emulation software you may need to use. You need to make it available for us to test.
8. We shall need a set of HW in our office to final test & confirm. Please include.
9. What software (if any) be used - for control, monitoring, configuring, managing of system resources at run-time? This will need to be compatible & will be integrated with our reader system eventually.
10. Please provide a test software app that emulates our reader commands/responses to prove the results gained by your antenna POC. Please let us know if you need us to provide some sample RFID tags for your testing, else we assume you will get them. Though they are available at very inexpensive price everywhere.
11. Suggest ways to improve/optimize the RFID passive tag's relative location x,y,z co-ordinates results.
12. Submit Testing procedures to verify & confirm for your satisfaction
13. Submit Testing procedures to verify & confirm for our satisfaction
14. Submit Solution's Guarantee details
15. Confirmation that you shall routinely submit complete IP, documented source code and supporting docs and user manuals etc. like for the examples products given.
16. To ensure that no AI is used in communications with us, please submit best bid amount & delivery time.
C. Please do not submit...
1. Any experience that is not about RFID UHF antenna design related. We shall let you share all this after the job.