Applying passive RFID system to wireless headphones for extreme low power consumption

ABSTRACT

One of major design concerns about wireless headphone is power consumption. In this paper, we propose a novel design for extreme low power headphone implementation by extending the EPC Class-1 Generation 2 RFID protocol for delivering stream data. We prototyped a reader as a stream generator, and a passive tag as an audio receiver to consume less power than any other protocols for wireless headphones.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.3 SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
EGen2, RFID, low-power, passive RFID, wireless headphone