EM4152

RAIN RFID TRANSPONDER IC

WITH CAPACITIVE SENSOR INTERFACE

Description

em|aura-sense is a member of the latest generation family of EM Microelectronic RAIN RFID^TM devices. The chip combines capacitive sensing and RAIN RFID technology used for long range application purposes.

Target applications and market segments include smart manufacturing and industry 4.0 applications, predictive maintenance, Internet of Things (IoT), industrial sensing, and home automation.

The chip is compliant with ISO/IEC 18000-63 and EPC^TM Gen2v2.

The em|aura-sense device allows to interface and capture sensing data with external sensor(s). Sensor commands are available to request sensing acquisition and store in the memory.

The capacitive sensor is external to the chip and can either be integrated in the inlay or as a separately mounted component, e.g. as an SMD component.

em|aura-sense offers a versatile non-volatile memory which is accessible via the RAIN RFID air interface and can be used for storing sensing information. Each IC is  anufactured with a 96-bit unique Tag Identifier (TID) and delivered with a default 96-bit EPC encoded value that is a copy of the 96-bit TID.

Features 

- Advanced RAIN RFID technology

- Sensing sensitivity: -18dBm with dipole antenna

- Read sensitivity with sensing disabled: -19.5dBm with dipole antenna

- Sensing and data storing: -15.5dBm with dipole antenna

- Capacitance sensing effective range: 15pF

- 7-bit analog to digital conversion of inlay sensing capacitance

- Sensitivity:160fF/LSB, noiseRMS: 250fF

- Sensing at boot and reporting with standard commands

- On demａnd sensing using Select or Write/BlockWrite command

- User Memory up to 2kbit memory

- Compatible with sensor + 1-step inlay manufacturing caps/resistive sensor

- Minimum 10 years data retention

- Extended temperature range: -40 to +85℃

Memory

- Configurable 2048-bit memory used for:

    Up to 480-bit EPC/UII encodings

    USER memory of 124X16bits