The current and projected rapid increase in usage of the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags will yield new uses and applications in an Internet of things (IoT) environment. This chapter will discuss the implementation of software-defined radio (SDR) to aggregate, analytically process, and efficiently transmit data from RFID tags through a satellite backhaul solution. In the infrastructure proposed below, the first layer SDR aggregates RFID data at a tower level, the second layer SDR aggregates tower data at a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite level, and then this aggregated data are backhauled to the gateway for the third layer SDR processing and data analytics. This chapter will discuss the RFID/SDR current and future capabilities, SDR design trades, RFID/ SDR system prototype test results, and satellite implementation scenarios.

Chapter Contents:

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Methodology
• 8.3 Results
• 8.4 Conclusion
• 8.5 Future work
• Acknowledgments
• References

Inspec keywords: 5G mobile communication; data aggregation; Internet of Things; satellite communication; radiofrequency identification; network servers; software radio; internetworking

Other keywords: UHF RFID tags; satellite backhaul solution; third layer SDR processing; gateway; 5G Internet of Things application; layer SDR tower data aggregation processing; IoT environment; low Earth orbit satellite level; data analytics; LEO; satellite implementation scenarios; radiofrequency identification tags; software-defined radio implementation

Subjects: RFID systems; Satellite communication systems; Computer networks and techniques; Mobile radio systems; Computer communications; Data handling techniques