Implementation Study of IEEE 802 : 15.4

Abstract: This thesis is analysis-based survey in which our task was to find out the suitability of IEEE 802.15.4 for the RFID systems in terms of power. We studied the different RFID systems. We analyzed the IEEE 802.15.4 to see how much this protocol can facilitate the RFID application, but we just considered the 2.4 GHz physical band as Free2move uses this band for its RFID products. Since semi-passive1 RFIDs are the closest competitors of the active RFID, so we also compared the IEEE 802.15.4 with ISO 18000-4 (mode2) to find out their pros and cons. We also tried to evaluate the hardware architecture proposed by Free2move. We compared proposed hardware components with other competitors available in the market. The main point of focus during hardware evaluation remained its power efficiency. As concluding part we have proposed an idea for using the IEEE 802.15.4 standard in semi- passive RFIDs.