Le but de cette thèse est de développer des capteurs sur la base des tags RFID, des technologies et matériaux disponibles au Vietnam afin de contribuer à résoudre la problématique du contrôle de la qualité des produits alimentaires. En effet la technologie RFID s’est affirmée en importance pour ses applications dans de nombreux domaines. Dans ce contexte, l’identification des produits alimentaires expirés, sans les endommager, est une orientation de recherche très prometteuse. Un tag RFID UHF passif peut aussi être composé de plusieurs puces et plusieurs antennes, chaque couple puce/antenne conçu pour travailler sur un intervalle déterminé de valeur de permittivité. Donc, à partir de l’ensemble des permittivités définies pour chaque couple puce/antenne et les signaux réfléchis vers le lecteur, nous pourrons «mesurer» la permittivité de l’objet tracé. Ainsi la connaissance de la permittivité des aliments et la conception spécifique de l’antenne, nous développerons un tag capteur de type "multi puce/antenne" qui sera utilisé comme un capteur sans fil pour la détection de la qualité des aliments / In recent years, RFID technology has established itself in importance, particularly for applications in the civil sector. In this context, identification of expired products without damage is a very promising direction of research. However, the price of these sensors is still too high especially compared to living in Vietnam. A passive UHF RFID tag chip can include many antennae and many chips on a same substrate in which each pair of chip/antenna is designed to be activated on a determined interval value of permittivity. So from designed permittivities for each pair of chip/antenna and the reflected signals to the reader, we can define the value of permittivity of the object that is labelled with RFID tag. From the characterization of food permittivity and the background of antenna design, we developped a sensor tag "multi chip/antenna" to be used as a wireless sensor for the detection of food quality. The aim of this thesis intends to develop a new family of wireless sensors based on RFID technology and available technology of fabrication in Vietnam to solve this problem.

Les activités de transport de passagers et de marchandises augmentent sans cesse dans le monde et en particulier dans l'Union Européenne, entre autres au bord des péages. Afin d'améliorer la fluidité et réduire les risques d‘encombrements, une des solutions consiste à rendre les péages plus performants. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'améliorer la performance des systèmes d'identification de véhicules et de contribuer à la conception d'un système de classification des types de véhicules par ondes électromagnétiques pour application au télépéage. Ce système permet un paiement automatique sans arrêt des véhicules. La première partie de la thèse est consacrée à l'étude de deux systèmes d'identification de véhicules : RFID UHF et DSRC. Notre recherche s'est focalisée sur l'augmentation de la distance de communication ainsi que sur la réduction de la taille et du prix du système grâce à 5 nouvelles antennes à bas coûts, très directives et faciles à industrialiser. La deuxième partie est consacrée à l'étude d'un système de classification à distance des différents types de véhicules, basé sur les ondes diffusées par les véhicules. Il détecte la présence d'un véhicule et mesure la distance entre ce véhicule et le système avec une bonne précision. Ce système est basé sur la technique de radar Ultra-Large-Bande. Le signal émis est une impulsion monocyle de très courte durée. Dans cette partie, nous proposons et testons trois méthodes de classification de véhicules dans un environnement proche du milieu routier. / The activities of passenger and goods transport are constantly increasing worldwide and especially in the European Union, including the edge of tolls. To improve the fluidity and reduce the risk of congestion, one of the solutions is automatic toll payments. The objective of this thesis is to enhance the performance of vehicle identification systems and to contribute to develop a design of a classification vehicles system by using electromagnetic waves for free-flow electronic toll collection system application. This system allows an automatic payment without stopping vehicles. The first part of this thesis deals with the study of two vehicle identification systems: UHF RFID and DSRC. Five new antennas were realized with the purpose to increase the communication range as well as to reduce the size and cost of the system. They are high gain and easy to be industrialized. The second part of this thesis is devoted to the study of a classification of different types of vehicles from the scattered waves captured by the system. Three methods of vehicle classification are proposed and tested in the road environment. Such system detects the presence of vehicle and measures the distance between vehicle and itself with a good accuracy. The principle of the system is based on Ultra-Wideband radar technology in which transmitting signal with a very short duration pulse is used.

Master's thesis deals with the design of an antenna system for wireless sound transmission used mainly in professional sound reinforcement. The introductory part deals generally with wireless microphones, frequency bands used and proven antenna types. Next, this work deals with signal distribution that is realized using the antenna splitter. The antenna parts is focused on easy production and real usage, therefore were selected antennas with appropriate properties suitable for small series production. This thesis includes simulation of each device, their real construction design and measurements of built prototypes and final products. All three produced devices – the rack splitter, /4 antenna and Helix antenna are fully working, achieve good parameters and are ready for further manufacturing and easy modifications in case of frequency band change requirement. The conclusion includes an overall assessment of the results achieved.

This work deals with a mobile signal propagation in electromagnetic wave form in a real environment of city microcell. The electromagnetic wave passing through the city environment is affected by many kinds of mechanism. It includes especially diffraction along vertical edges of buildings, diffraction across building roofs and buildings or ground refraction. These mechanisms are time variable. If we want to predicate them, we have to use sort of approached model. For an experimental part of this work, the Berg’s recursive model with a possibility of path loses or signal level prediction in a selected microcellular system is chosen. The software for a cellular network coverage is created on the basis of this fact. Its advantage is a possibility of up to five base stations placing and many kinds of settings, e.g. operating frequency, base station transmitting power, base and mobile station antennas height etc. There is a possibility of system GSM 900, GSM 1800 or UMTS choice. The Berg’s recursive model features are checked by simulations on experimental and real maps of build-up area.

The master’s thesis is focused on the UHF RFID reader EXIN-1 signal processing. The first part describes the concept of the EXIN-1 front end, its basic testing and possible communication interfaces for reader control and for receiving and transmitting baseband signals. The second part of this work is aimed to a simple description of EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol, especially to used modulations and codings. In the last part, a block connection between the front end and an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller discovery board is designed. The microcontroller is used for generating of all required signals and also for receiving incoming signals and processing them for identification numbers of RFID cards (tags), which are in the reading range of the reader. A decoding algorithm is designed in MATLAB software and implemented to the selected microcontroller. Obtained identification data are displayed on an LCD display and also sent to a PC through a serial communication.

The goal of this thesis is to detect pacing pulses in ultra high-frequency ECG so as to remove these pacing pulses. It makes evaluation of higher frequency components of QRS complex possible. This evaluation is impossible while pacing pulses are present. Chosen issue is solved using heuristic algorithm. Algorithm uses spacing of signal by line in the area which is not influenced by pacing pulses. Subsequently this line is made longer and using differences between line and signal (or another rules) edges of pacing pulses are detected. The top of the stimulation tip is detected by thresholding envelope of original signal´s first difference. More algorithms are tested in this thesis. Several methods of removing pacing pulses are suggested in thesis. Envelopes of high-frequency components are created. Envelopes are analyzed subsequently and suggested methods of removing pacing pulses are compared on the basis of these analysis. Finally the detection efficiency is evaluated.

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The aim of this research was to study a novel, broadband, low cost, low profile and a high-medium gain antenna in the UHF band. This has been achieved through numerical modelling, theoretical investigation and physical measurements. In this study two commercially available antenna systems are investigated in order to compare and establish potential deficiencies in the UHF antenna systems. A number of disadvantages are resolved within a novel antenna system design. The parametric study is performed for each element of the novel antenna system in order to optimise its overall performance. The indoor and outdoor measurements have been carried out in house, in order to validate the predicted results. The novel antenna system is compared to the most popular and commercially available UHF antenna systems. The study demonstrates that the novel antenna system has clear advantages such as broadband, balanced, compact and low cost when compared to the commercial antenna designs studied here. The comparison of the manufacturers' data to the measured results shows a good match, validating the outdoor measurements technique used in this research.

This diploma thesis focuses on the design and implementation of an emulator of RFID protocols in a software defined radio. The designed emulator operates in the UHF band (860 MHz – 960 MHz). The main goal of this design is a very fast measurement of power characteristic of tag. The proposed solution is based on implementing the transmitter controls directly into the SDR. Thanks to this solution a reduction of delay between measurements occur compared to the conventional concept, when the transmitter parameters are controlled by the hosted PC. In this thesis, suitable platform based on research is chosen for implementation and also a concept of design is proposed and described herein, which is based on implementation of time critical algorithms directlyinto the software defined radio’s FPGA. The proposed solution was implemented into selected platforms and its functionality was experimentally verified.

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