ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 18046-1 First edition 2011-10-15 Information technology Radio frequency identification device performance test methods - Part 1: Test methods for system performance Technologies de I'information Méthodes d'essai des performances du dispositif d'identification par radiofrequence Partie 1: Methodes d'essai des performances du systeme Reference number ISO/IEC 18046-1:2011(E) IEC so ISO/IEC2011 ISO/IEC 18046-1:2011(E) COPYRIGHT PROTECTED DOCUMENT ISO/IEC2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, isO's memberbody in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ISO/IEC 2011-All rights reserved ISO/IEC 18046-1:2011(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction. 1 Scope 2 Normative references. 3 Terms and definitions 4 Abbreviated terms... 5 Conditions applicable to the test methods.. 5.1 Selection of the tests .... 5.2 Selection of the devices to be tested. 5.3 Test environment.... 5.4 RFenvironment 5.5 Pre-conditioning. 5.6 Default tolerance 5.7 Total measurement uncertainty. 5.8 Test Read and Write... 5.9 Test speed motion. 5.10 Test mounting material. 5.11 Test communication parameters 5.12 Test equipment limits. 5.13 Human exposure to EMF 5.14 Test result reporting... 5.15 Tag arrangement, 6 Inductive systems. 6.1 Portable Interrogator.. 6.2 Interrogatorwithonesideantenna(s)configuration..... 10 6.3 Interrogator gate antenna configuration..... .19 6.4 Interrogator 3 dimension antenna configuration (tunnel).... .25 7 Propagative system according ISO/IEc 18000-6... 31 7.1 Portable Interrogator.... .31 7.2 Interrogator with one side antenna(s) configuration... 7.3 Interrogator gate antenna configuration... .47 7.4 Interrogator 3 dimension antenna configuration (tunnel).. .52 8 Propagative System according ISO/IEc 18000-7. .61 8.1 Fixed Interrogator. Annex A (Normative) Table of general parameters for the test report... 64 Bibliography. 65 ISO/IEC2011-All rights reserved ii