Welcome to this week’s investigator Blog post. This week we had our first quarterly review board presentation to showcase the accomplishments we have completed so far and what our next steps are in completing our project. Over the past weeks we have been ordering parts in order to complete our next prototype. This new prototype will have higher powered parts in order to increase its maximum reader range. This should allow us to read tags from around 30 feet away.  

The new higher powered RFID reader was delivered earlier this week are we began testing it with an antenna we already possessed. This antenna is larger and higher powered than the one we will be using in our final solution. With this antenna we were able to start gathering data points relating to the power output and read distance. Below is a picture of us testing the reader range of our new RFID reader with this antenna. To wrap up this week we ordered the two possible antennas that we will be using in our final solution. We ordered two to gather more information about the weight to reader distance correlation. This will allow us to further optimize our solution and produce the best prototype we can.