Contactless identification has now become a mature technology worldwide, and it is only in certain areas of application, such as RFID at UHF and SHF, that some finishing touches are still required. Having worked in this field for many years, I felt the need to draw up a ‘report’ on this area of UHF and SHF. Up to the present, very little basic or practical technical information or training has been available for engineers, technicians and students. I hope that this book will go some way to making up for this shortage and will be the most comprehensive guide to this mysterious field of RFID at UHF and SHF available at a given date. Consequently, the book is not intended to be encyclopaedic, but rather to be a solid and thorough technical introduction to the subject. It is thorough in the sense that all the ‘real’ aspects of these contactless applications (principles, technologies, components, standards, regulations, applications, safety, etc.) are dealt with in detail.

Furthermore, in order not to intimidate the reader with the theoretical proofs that are required for an understanding of the devices used, I have paid considerable attention to the educational aspect of the text and have ensured that the relationship between theory and technology, finance and other aspects, is clear to the reader at all times.

In the past, very little practical information or training has been available for engineers, technicians and students in the area of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems at ultra high frequencies (UHF) and super high frequencies (SHF).

Here, Dominique Paret offers you a complete guide to the theory, components, practical application areas and standards in RFID at UHF and SHF. He achieves an expert balance between theory and technology, finance and other aspects, providing a clear view of the entire field.

This book deals with the real aspects of contactless applications in detail, and divided into five parts, covers:

• Basic principles, general considerations and the market, defining all essential terms and the different tags and applications.
• Wave propagation principles and theory.
• Communication and transmission, baseband signals, carrier modulation and interactions, discussing communication modes between the base station and tag, and energy transfer modes.
• International safety standards and regulations, including International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) models, and methods for evaluating commercial tags.
• Components for tags and base stations.

This comprehensive reference is ideal for computer and electronics engineers working on the design and development of RFID systems for the electronics industry, as well as for those in other industries such as automotive, security and transport, who want to implement RFID into their business.

Dominique Paret’s book is also a solid and thorough technical introduction to the subject for graduate level students and researchers in electronics and industrial engineering design.