Hardware and Software files of IEEE publication: Ambient Backscatterers using FM Broadcasting for Low Cost and Low Power Wireless Applications

In this repo we proposed proof-of-concept tag comprises of an ultra-low-power microcontroller (MCU) and a radio frequency front-end for wireless communication. The MCU can accumulate data from multiple sensors through an analog-todigital converter, while it transmits the information back to the receiver through the front-end by means of backscattering. The front-end uses On-Off keying modulation and FM0 encoding on ambient FM station signals. The receiver consists of a commercial low-cost software defined radio which downconverts the received signal to baseband and decodes it using a suitable signal processing algorithm.

IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103031
Local: http://www.daskalakispiros.com/files/daskalakis_mtt_2017.pdf

Questions/issues Inquiries regarding the scripts provided are cordially welcome.

Citing

If you use our algorithm, please cite [1].

@article{daskalakis2017ambient,
  title={Ambient Backscatterers Using {FM} Broadcasting for Low Cost and Low Power Wireless Applications},
  author={Daskalakis, Spyridon Nektarios and Kimionis, John and Collado, Ana and Goussetis, George and Tentzeris, Manos M and Georgiadis, Apostolos},
  journal="{IEEE} Trans. Microw. Theory Techn.",
  volume={PP},
  number={99},
  month={Nov.}, 
  pages={1--12},
  year={2017}
}
 

[1] S. N. Daskalakis, J. Kimionis, A Collado, G. Goussetis, M. M. Tentzeris and A. Georgiadis, Ambient Backscatterers using FM Broadcasting for Low Cost and Low Power Wireless Applications, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), Vol. 65, No. 12, pp. 5251 - 5262, November 2017.