RFID SENSOR TAG SUPPORTING DUAL MODE LOGGING, RFID SENSOR READER AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140149079A1
• Filed: 10/18/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Food Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Food Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Chan-Won, SHIN, Dong-Beom, LEE, Sang-Yeoun, KIM, Hyun-Seok, KIM, Jong-Hoon, KIM, Byeong-Sam
• Application Number:
  US14/057,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149079A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/187
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0717 the sensor being capable of sensing environmental conditions such as temperature history or pressure

Abstract

Disclosed is an RFID sensor tag supporting dual mode logging, an RFID sensor reader, and a controlling method thereof. The RFID sensor tag includes a controller that supports a dual mode including a scheduling logging mode in which sensor data is recorded in a predetermined interval and an alarm event logging mode in which sensor data is recorded in a predetermined alarm condition and records sensor data in the memory when a corresponding mode is performed and a memory that has a sensor data recording area divided per mode.

Claims

1. An RFID sensor tag, comprising:

a controller configured to support a dual mode in which a scheduling logging mode of recording sensor data according to a predetermined interval and an alarm event logging mode of recording sensor data according to a predetermined alarm condition are performed and record sensor data in the memory when a corresponding mode is performed; and

a memory having a sensor data recording area divided per mode.

2. The RFID sensor tag of claim 1, wherein a starting address of the memory in which data is recorded when the scheduling logging mode is performed and a starting address of the memory in which data is recorded when the alarm event logging mode is performed are different from each other.

3. The RFID sensor tag of claim 1, wherein the sensor data recording area of the memory includes a scheduling logging area in which data is recorded in the scheduling logging mode, an alarm event logging area in which data is recorded in the alarm event logging mode, and a common recording area in which data is commonly recorded regardless of kinds of the modes.

4. The RFID sensor tag of claim 3, wherein the controller records sensor data except time information in the scheduling logging area of the memory and records time information together with sensor data in the alarm event logging area in the memory.

5. The RFID sensor tag of claim 3, wherein the controller first records sensor data in each of the logging area per logging mode and then records sensor data in the common recording area when each of the logging area is filled.

6. The RFID sensor tag of claim 5, wherein when recording the sensor data in the common recording area, if sensing events with respect to the logging modes simultaneously occur, the controller preferentially records sensor data in a logging mode of a higher priority.

7. The RFID sensor tag of claim 3, wherein if a size of the common recording area is smaller than a size of the sensor data with respect to a currently performed logging mode, the controller stops the corresponding logging mode.

8. An RFID sensor reader, comprising:

a data reading unit configured to read setting information, state information, and sensor data recorded in a corresponding mode from a memory of an RFID sensor tag in which storage areas are divided by a scheduling logging mode and an alarm event logging mode.

9. The RFID sensor reader of claim 8, wherein the data reading unit reads sensor data recorded in an alarm event logging mode from a scheduling logging area of the memory together with time information, reads sensor data recorded in the scheduling logging mode from an alarm event logging area of the memory, and reads state information of the memory and setting information and state information from an operation mode setting area.

10. The RFID sensor reader of claim 8, further comprising:

a data analyzing unit configured to analyze the setting information and the state information read from the data reading unit to calculate the number of sensor data recorded in the scheduling logging mode and time information when each sensor data is sensed, and map the calculated time information with the sensor data in the scheduling logging mode read from the data reading unit to acquire sensor data with time information in the scheduling logging mode.

11. An RFID sensor tag controlling method, comprising:

setting a sensor data starting position and a size of a memory in a scheduling logging mode of an RFID sensor tag and a sensor data starting position and a size of a memory in an alarm event logging mode; and

recording data in designated areas of the memory according to a method set in the setting of the sensor data starting positions and the sizes.

12. The RFID sensor tag controlling method of claim 11, wherein the recording of the data includes recording data in a scheduling logging area of the memory when the scheduling logging mode is performed and recording data in an alarm event logging area when the alarm event logging mode is performed.

13. The RFID sensor tag controlling method of claim 12, wherein the recording of the data includes recording sensor data except time information in the scheduling logging area of the memory and recording time information together with sensor data in the alarm event logging area of the memory.

14. The RFID sensor tag controlling method of claim 11, wherein the recording of the data includes recording sensor data in a common recording area of the memory, if memory areas designated in the logging modes are filled.

15. The RFID sensor tag controlling method of claim 14, wherein when recording sensor data in the common recording area, if events with respect to the logging modes occur simultaneously, the recording of the data includes preferentially recording sensor data of a logging mode of a higher priority.

16. The RFID sensor tag controlling method of claim 11, further comprising:

if events with respect to the logging modes occur simultaneously after the logging areas designated in the logging modes in the setting of the sensor data starting positions and the sizes are filled, setting logging mode priorities to preferentially record data in the common recording area of the memory.