Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags

Atojoko, A.; Bin-Melha, M.; Elkazmi, E.; Usman, M.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A.; See, C. .

Abstract

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this problem will be by deploying some mechanism to monitor liquid level at each point in time and escalating unusual liquid levelsto a pump control circuit or to the relevant authorities for prompt action to avoid a flooding occurrence. This paper presents a low cost power efficient liquid level monitoring technique. Passive RFID tags are designed modelled and deployed, the signal variation from the Alien Reader Software are used to effectively estimate the level of liquid in any surface or underground tank. The experimental set up is presented and an expository presentation is made of the passive tag design, modelled and simulated and adopted for same application.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2013 Design and Test Symposium (IDT)
• Start Date: Dec 16, 2013
• End Date: Dec 18, 2013
• Acceptance Date: Oct 21, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Jan 30, 2014
• Publication Date: 2013-12
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2162-0601; 2162-061X
• Book Title: 2013 8th IEEE Design and Test Symposium
• ISBN: 9781479935253
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/idt.2013.6727088
• Keywords: Tank flooding, Passive RFID tags, power efficient, liquid level monitoring
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1870802
• Related Public URLs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6727088