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Creating Value While Using UHF RFID

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RFID System – Basic Elements

3 Elements of an RFID System

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RFID System – Tag Elements

MAGICSTRAP®

isa Tag Component

IC ��������Tag/Inlay

Antenna

(Cu, Al, Snetc.)

(PET film etc.)

Strap

IC

Substrate

a UHF - IC Module

Efficiently use existing metallization as antenna

Pharmacy

Food Packages Electronics

Rethinking Tags: Reduce to the MAGICSTRAP ®

Tag/Inlay

Antenna

(Cu, Al, Snetc.)

(PET film etc.)

Instead of adding cost

Expensive

Efficiently use existing metallization as antenna

Pharmacy

Food Packages Electronics

Rethinking Tags: Reduce to the MAGICSTRAP ®

Simply place the Magicstrap on an existing metallization layer (e.g. aluminum layer on the food package or ground plane in the PCB) and it will be used as a booster antenna.Depending on the size, permittivities and form factors you can achieve several meters of read range.

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4 Types of reference antenna on PCB

Type1 Type2 Type3 Type4

10cm

4cm

0.7m 1.6m 3.6m 5m

MAGICSTRAP®

3.2x1.3cm(4.2cm2)1.2x1.0cm

(1.2cm2)0.5x1.0cm(0.5cm2)

0.5x0.5cm(0.25cm 2)

(at 4W EIRP, 915MHz, with 6dBi directivity antenna and circularly polarized wave�Read range

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What is inside of MAGICSTRAP ® ?

Environmental Friendly: 100% GREEN materials

Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics

Embedded RF circuit

Substrate

RFID ICMAGICSTRAP®

Resin mold

- RFID IC

- RF (matching) circuit in LTCC

- Wideband antenna filter – all global UHF RFID bands covered

- ESD protection

- Antenna for Magnetic Coupling

Ceramic Multilayer(LTCC)

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How does MAGICSTRAP ® work on PCB?

MAGICSTRAP®Conventional Dipole Antenna mounting position

1

Dipole Antenna with wide ���� area

2

PCB antenna with MAGICSTRAP®

3 PCB ground

MAGICSTRAP ® recognizes the PCB as a dipole antenna.

MAGICSTRAP ® makes stable RFID tag on PCB.

Confidential

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Simply Add Some Magic to Your PCB

Supply Chain Management

Anti-Counterfeit

Traceability

MAGICSTRAP®

1. xxx2. xxxxxxxxx3. xxx4. xxxx5. xxxxx6. xx7. xx8. xx

Add MAGICSTRAP® and your PCB will become a full RFID Tag!

Conventional PCB without RFID tag function

Advanced PCB with RFID tag function

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And explore the added value by UHF RFID

Anti-Counterfeiting

Traceability

The product itself will become a full RFID Tag over the whole value chain!

Supply Chain Management

MAGICSTRAP®

inside!

Example !

North Andover (North America)Schneider Automation INC

Seligenstadt (Germany)Schneider Automation Gmbh Shanghaï (China )

Schneider Electric investment Ltd

Carros, Sophia (France)Schneider Automation S.A.S

€400 Millions business1200 employees.4 subsidiaries around the world4 R&D locations1 specialized factory

Use Case: The Schneider Automation business

Actual Use Case Magicstrap on PCB

Schneider Electrics - France

Current product tracking solutions

PCBidentification

PCBAassemblyand test

Coating

• Laser marking 2D code on each PCB– Collect assembly process

parameters

– Process interlock

• 2D matrix code sticker after coating– Used as anti error system in FAT

lines

• HF RFID tag– Removed and recycled

FAT1 FAT2 FAT…

Schneider approach to RFID • Compensate tag over cost by productivity gain

– Replace multiple labeling by one SMD component UHF tag– Tag cost is the key figure– Assembly cost can be neglected– Use the same tag along PCBA assembly process and FAT process

• Evaluate implementation constraints

What can Magicstrap do for Schneider ?

Hold more data

Access multiplePCBA data into a shielded product (with precautions)

Access PCB panel data in line before/after reflow

Access tagged PCBA data after conformal coating

Environment

solution

ROI

Cost

Quality

� Component cost is compensated by process savings

� All identification operation are suppressed� Real time data capture increase precision of proces s control� Product history is archived

Service � On demand data can be included into the product� They remain accessible in a running configuration� Energy savings 102 MWh for one year� Product end of live recycling processing data

TraceItAll

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Magic Keys for Value Creation

Reader-Writers & Antennas

System Solutionsand Middleware

- Start with closed loop scenario (production & traceability)

but additional values over whole process identified

- Anti-counterfeiting

- Maintenance

- Recycling

- ...

- Use Smart Tag Solution based on

existing process

- Transform the product

- Add RFID uses Step by Step

Project Partners & AIM Members

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