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Booster
Antenna
Plaster

Magnetic
Field of
the Reader
Device

Coupling
Element
Human
Tissue

Implanted
Diagnostic
Device

Figure 13. Long-range application of a miniaturized
RFID sensor tag [56]. A CoS tag is implanted in the
human body to measure, for example, blood sugar level
with an NFC-enhanced mobile phone. To simplify the
read out of the sensor tag, a booster antenna designed
as a plaster is attached to the human skin and aligned
with the miniaturized RFID tag to maximize power and
data transfer to the tag. With this, the read range of the
miniaturized RFID tag is increased from a few millimeters
to a few centimeters. This read range is comparable to the
read range of conventional NFC tags.

Acknowledgment
This work was partly performed as part of the project
"Kalium Home Monitoring" and the project "Dependable, Secure and Time-Aware Sensor Networks" funded
by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.

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