Automatic Testing System for UHF Passive RFID Tag Performance

With the advancement of radio frequency identification technology, various RFID products are emerging in our life. More and more government agencies and retailers have realized the potential of RFID technology and have mandated or recommended their suppliers to attach RFID tags to their products. The tag performance highly determines implement of these mandates and recommendations. In this paper, we discuss an automatic testing system for UHF passive RFID tag performance. Both hardware and software architectures will be presented.