What is energy harvesting?

Most passive RFID tags simply reflect back waves from the reader. Energy harvesting is a technique in which energy from the reader is gathered by the tag, stored momentarily and transmitted back at a different frequency. This method may improve the performance of passive RFID tags dramatically.

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