Research Article

Calibration of Passive UHF RFID Tags Using Neural Networks to Measure Soil Moisture

Table 1

Structure of collected data and stored in the CSV file. Each value is an average of 3 RFID reader/tag communication property measurement.

FieldField nameDescription

1TIMESTAMPDate and time of collected sample (unix timestamp)
2READ_COUNTNumber of responses from the tag in 15 sec. interval
3AVG_RSSI_IAverage RSSI value for in-phase channel
4AVG_RSSI_QAverage RSSI value for quadrature channel
5AVG_RSSIRSSI average value
6AVG_AGCReader automatic gain control
7AVG_ICOUNTAverage number of readings in the I channel
8AVG_QCOUNTAverage number of readings in the Q channel
9AVG_QCQ channel value
10AVG_QII channel value