India- GE : BATTERY FREE RFID SENSORS IN INDUSTRIES

(MENAFN- VMR News) GE TECHNOLOGY accomplished a project to develop cost-efficient sensors for cargo ships as battery-free and wireless RFID sensors which will be used in explosives for chemical detection and other dangerous materials at the shipping ports.

GE in partnership with TSWG (Technical Support Working Group) and with assistance of KemSENSE, they have developed a new sensor project based on GE's radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. TSWG is a U.S research and development interagency program that is into Quantum Magnetics and counter-terrorism measures. The new sensors are most likely to detect the chemical of interest wirelessly at low concentrations with various interferences exclusive of adding to their size, cost or complexity.

Radislav Potyrailo, a principal scientist at GE Global Research, states the GE's sensor will help to ensure the cargo safety that passes by our nation's ports and it could increase the accuracy while improving the detection of hazardous chemical threats.

For security solutions, GE's sensors can also be used in airports that can be connected to the central station, avails continuous monitoring, offering real-time and be cost-effective. Potyrailo further says, 'there are multiple bulky desktop systems in airports to screen for explosives while GE's sensor will detect simply by using an individual sensor rather than depending on multiple sensors.' In comparison to stationary desktop detectors, GE's system has power use 100 fold whereas it's 300 times smaller which reduces weight as well.

Anton Simunovic, CEO of KemSENSE says, 'GE has developed power free wireless sensor with high sensitivity whose real-time measurement of chemical and biological properties has vast accessibility for multiple industries as healthcare, agriculture, natural resource and consumers.

These sensors are created in the form of battery free RFID tags which is responsive to explosives and oxidizers coated with a sensing material. These tags are smaller in size which means it can be set up on multiple surfaces. If there is a detection of explosive or oxidizer in the air, if the tag is placed outside a shipping container, its electronic properties will change due to the sensing material and the tag will give an alert to a cell phone sized reader.

As it can trace down the ultra-chemical levels, G's sensors can be used in multiple arrays of places such as healthcare wherein these sensors ensure the sanitization of the surfaces properly. Along with that it can benefit for detecting gas leaks, aging of electrical isolation and bacteria in residential and industrial buildings. Battery free RFID sensors market is gaining growth momentum, due to high demand from food and logistics monitoring as per the market report published by Value Market Research.

Depending on their performance specs and fabrication volume, the estimated production costs for these sensors would range between 5-50 cents according to GE.

Naira Shekhawat has been into Content Writing just after completing her Graduation in English Literature. Her love for words has won her many accolades in her respective jobs ever since. Naira covers business sections for VMR News. She is a traveller by heart and loves writing on food blogs as a freelancer.

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