Balluff Gmbh

Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Daniel Schweizer

Gerhard Kirschner

Herbert Fuellmeier

Matthias Michael Heldmaier

Andreas Schuerzinger

Matthias Hofherr

Christoph Bauch

Marc Lechler

Debraj Kar

Thomas Graf

Fabian Hauser

Andreas Schürzinger

An RFID antenna device () for emitting and/or receiving circularly polarised electromagnetic radiation, comprising a radiator unit () which has a radiator network () with multiple at least partially curved radiator portions () and an auxiliary antenna () which is galvanically isolated from the radiator network () and is inductively or capacitively coupled to the radiator network (), a supply network unit () having a power division portion () with a device port and having at least one delay portion () which is electrically conductively connected to the power division portion () and is electrically conductively connected to the radiator portions (), wherein the auxiliary antenna () is centrally located between the radiator portions (). Further, an RFID sensor device comprising such an RFID antenna device ().

RFID antenna device and RFID sensor device

In a method for initializing at least one network segment of a network for the wireless location of movable locating objects arranged in a limited space using pulsed radio signals, wherein the at least one network segment in the limited space has at least two spaced apart reference nodes which form a chain-shaped communication network and which are autarkic in terms of communication, wherein a locating object arranged in the limited space is able to be located using one of the distance-based trilateration carried out by at least three reference nodes, and wherein general information is communicated by broadcast channels, the reference nodes listen to the broadcast channels in a standby position until initial information about their active participation in the communication network is received.

Method for the network initialization of a network for the radio location of objects within a limited space

In a network arrangement for carrying out a location of locating objects that are arranged in a confined space and are able to be moved, the location being carried out by pulsed radio signals, wherein at least three communication-technically autarkic reference nodes that are spatially distributed and form a communication network are arranged in the confined space a communication protocol enables a location object that is arranged in the confined space to be localized by a trilateration carried out by a distance-based trilateration that is carried out by the at least three reference nodes.

Network arrangement and method for the radio location of objects within a confined space

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Filderstadt, Germany

Daniel Schweizer