Method and read/write device for selecting a wireless data medium

• US 9,754,140 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Weinlaender, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Alunkal, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/830,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07773 Antenna details antennas for wireless devices, e.g. RFID tags, in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10316 using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers antennas in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10356 using a plurality of antennas, e.g. configurations including means to resolve interference between the plurality of antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/532 Polarisation modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/1555 Selecting relay station antenna mode, e.g. selecting omnidirectional -, directional beams, selecting polarizations

Abstract

A method and a read/write device for selecting at least one wireless data medium from a number of detected wireless data media that are RFID transponders, wherein the data media are registered in a detection area of a read/write device via a plurality of detection cycles, at least one receive parameter is recorded for each of the detected data media, and at least one data medium of the data media is selected based on an evaluation of the recorded receive parameters, a plurality of detection cycles are performed at different antenna polarizations, at least one receive parameter is recorded at each of utilized antenna polarizations for the detected data media, and at least one of the detected data media is selected in each case based on a statistical evaluation of the receive parameters recorded in the different antenna polarizations.

Claims

1. A method for selecting at least one data medium from a number of detected wireless data media, comprising:

registering the data media in a detection area of a read/write device via a number of detection cycles;

recording at least one receive parameter for each of the detected wireless data media;

selecting at least one of the closest detected data media in each case based on a statistical evaluation of the receive parameters recorded in different antenna polarizations, said statistical evaluation providing an indication of whether the at least one selected closest detected data media has been primarily directly detected or primarily indirectly detected, an indirectly detected data media not being selected;

performing a plurality of detection cycles by the read/write device in each case with a different antenna polarization, at least one receive parameter being recorded in each case during each of the plurality of detection cycles with a respectively utilized antenna polarization for the detected data media; and

selecting at least one of the detected data media in each case based on a statistical evaluation of the receive parameters recorded in different antenna polarizations.

2. The method as claimed in patent claim 1, wherein at least one data medium which is detectable with a highest number of different antenna polarizations is selected.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of detection cycles are performed with each utilized antenna polarization, in each case with a different transmission power of the read/write device comprising a transmission power increasing constantly from cycle to cycle;

wherein the transmission power which was required at least for a successful detection of a respective data medium in the respectively utilized antenna polarization is detected as the receive parameter for each detected data medium and for each antenna polarization.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein a plurality of detection cycles are performed with each utilized antenna polarization, in each case with a different transmission power of the read/write device comprising a transmission power increasing constantly from cycle to cycle;

wherein the transmission power which was required at least for a successful detection of a respective data medium in the respectively utilized antenna polarization is detected as the receive parameter for each detected data medium and for each antenna polarization.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method is performed repeatedly utilizing different radio channels;

wherein the detectability of the data media with at least one of (i) a highest possible number of different radio channels and (ii) the transmission power required at least for a successful detection in cases of a respective radio channel, and the antenna polarization used therein being used as an alternative or additional criterion for the selection or non-selection of the respective data medium.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless data media comprises RFID transponders.

6. A read/write device for selecting at least one data medium from a number of data media located within a detection area of the read/write device, comprising:

an antenna built-in or connected to the read/write device, the antenna is configured to alternately operate with different antenna polarizations; and

an evaluation unit for selecting at least one of the detected data media;

wherein the read/write device is configured to initially perform a plurality of detection cycles, in each case with a different antenna polarization, at least one receive parameter being recorded in each case during each of the plurality of detection cycles with a respectively utilized antenna polarization for the detected data media; and

wherein the evaluation unit is configured to perform a statistical evaluation of the receive parameters recorded in the different antenna polarizations and to select at least one of the closest detected data media subsequent to the initially performed plurality of detection cycles, said statistical evaluation providing an indication of whether the at least one selected closest detected data media has been primarily directly detected or primarily indirectly detected, an indirectly detected data media not being selected.

7. The read/write device as claimed in patent claim 6, wherein the evaluation unit is configured such that at least one data medium detectable with a highest number of different antenna polarizations is selected.

8. The read/write device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the read/write device performs a plurality of detection cycles in each case with a different transmission power of the read/write device with each antenna polarization, the different transmission power comprising a transmission power increasing constantly from cycle to cycle;

and wherein the transmission power which was required at least for a successful detection of a respective data medium in a respectively utilized antenna polarization is detected as the receive parameter for each detected data medium and for each antenna polarization.

9. The read/write device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the read/write device performs a plurality of detection cycles in each case with a different transmission power of the read/write device with each antenna polarization, the different transmission power comprising a transmission power increasing constantly from cycle to cycle;

and wherein the transmission power which was required at least for a successful detection of a respective data medium in a respectively utilized antenna polarization is detected as the receive parameter for each detected data medium and for each antenna polarization.

10. The read/write device as claimed in claim 6, wherein read/write device operates repeatedly using different radio channels;

wherein the detectability of the data media with at least one of (i) the highest possible number of different radio channels and (ii) the transmission power required at least for a successful detection in cases in which the respective radio channel and the antenna polarization utilized therein is utilized as an alternative or additional receive parameter comprising a criterion for the selection or non-selection of the respective data medium.

11. The read/write device as claimed in claim 7, wherein read/write device operates repeatedly using different radio channels;

wherein the detectability of the data media with at least one of (i) the highest possible number of different radio channels and (ii) the transmission power required at least for a successful detection in cases in which the respective radio channel and the antenna polarization utilized therein is utilized as an alternative or additional receive parameter comprising a criterion for the selection or non-selection of the respective data medium.

12. The read/write device as claimed in claim 8, wherein read/write device operates repeatedly using different radio channels;

wherein the detectability of the data media with at least one of (i) the highest possible number of different radio channels and (ii) the transmission power required at least for a successful detection in cases in which the respective radio channel and the antenna polarization utilized therein is utilized as an alternative or additional receive parameter comprising a criterion for the selection or non-selection of the respective data medium.

14. The read/write device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the wireless data media comprises RFID transponders.