# WISP Wiki - WISP5 ## Summary - The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) was developed in 2006 by Intel Labs Seattle. - Development work continued by Sensor Systems lab at the University of Washington - It is an open source battery free sensing platform built upon the EPC Class 1 Generation 2 standard for UHF RFID tags. - Proposed operating range is "at least 8 metres away from a reader emitting 30dBm (maximum power allowed by the FCC) into a 9dBic circularly polarized antenna (a typical antenna type used in RFID systems)" ## Draft Paragraph in Thesis The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) was developed in 2006 by Intel Labs Seattle. Development work was then continued by Sensor Systems lab at the University of Washington. It is an open source sensing platform built upon the EPC Class 1 Generation 2 standard for UHF RFID tags. What is special about this project is that the sensors are completely battery free; instead, the device harvests energy from the RFID reader signal to take measurements. The proposed operating range of a WISP 5 tag (the second newest generation) is "at least 8 metres away from a reader emitting 30dBm into a 9dBic circularly polarized antenna"~\cite{universityofwashingtonsensorsystemslaboratorywispwikiwisp5}. ## Final Paragraph in Thesis ## References 1. [WISP Wiki - WISP5](https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/wisp-wiki/wisp5) 2. # Footnotes