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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
- G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
- G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
- G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
- G08B13/2428—Tag details
- G08B13/2437—Tag layered structure, processes for making layered tags
- G08B13/2445—Tag integrated into item to be protected, e.g. source tagging
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01V—GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS
- G01V15/00—Tags attached to, or associated with, an object, in order to enable detection of the object
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- G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
- G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
- G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
- G08B13/2465—Aspects related to the EAS system, e.g. system components other than tags
- G08B13/2468—Antenna in system and the related signal processing
- G08B13/2471—Antenna signal processing by receiver or emitter
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- the present invention relates to a sensor for remote detection of objects, preferably for use in an article surveillance system, comprising a wireshaped element, which is arranged to be excited and detected electromagnetically. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method of detecting the presence of an object in a surveillance zone.
- a common example is electronic article surveillance systems for e.g. shops, where each monitored object is provided with an article surveillance sensor and where the system is arranged to detect the presence of this sensor as well as to generate an appropriate alarm signal, when an object is about to be removed from e.g. the shop premises without permission.
- each article is provided with a small label, which comprises a thin metallic strip or wire with magnetic properties.
- magnetic field generating devices are located for generating a magnetic field between themselves. If an article, which has been provided with such an article surveillance label, is moved in between the arc-shaped devices, the metallic element is affected by the magnetic field, wherein a detectable physical change occurs for the element. Use is often made of the fact that an alternating magnetic field causes a periodical switch in the magnetic dipole momentum of the metallic element - known as Barkhausenjumps .
- the metallic element may, if designed appropriately, be made to oscillate mechanically. These physical changes are detected inductively in the arcs, wherein the presence of the article may be determined between the arcs.
- Sensors of this kind are for instance disclosed in the United States Patent publication US-A-5 496 611, the European Patent publication EP-A-0 710 923 or the European Patent publication EP-A-0 716 393. All these sensors comprise a soft-magnetic metallic wire with a diameter of at least 60-115 ⁇ m and a length of between 5 and 10 cm. During the detection the sensor is exposed to an alternating magnetic field of low frequency, wherein said field generates the Barkhausenjumps described above in the mag- netic metal wire. These Barkhausenjumps , i.e. periodical switches of the magnetizing direction, are detected inductively.
- US-A-5 406 262 relates to an electronic article surveillance system as described above, the system further- more being provided with a coil for generating a magnetic bias field in the surveillance zone.
- Sensors of the types described above require, as a matter of fact, a certain degree of magnetic bias in order to be active, i.e. detectable.
- US-A-5 003 291 relates to the use of thin ferromagnetic fibers in electronic article surveillance systems. These fibers, which may have a diameter of between 3 and 80 ⁇ m, are arranged to be excited and detected in an essen- tially inductive way, in similarity to the above, by means of an alternating magnetic field with a frequency within the kHz-range.
- Another object is to considerably reduce the risk of false alarms according to the above.
- the present invention aims at providing a sensor of a very simple design, which may be manufactured at an extremely low cost and which also may be easily mounted to the monitored object, even at such positions, which are hidden or inaccessible to a normal customer and the shop personnel as well as to a potential thief.
- a sensor for remote detection of objects preferably for use in an article surveillance system, comprising a wireshaped element, which is arranged to be excited and detected electromagnetically.
- the wireshaped element has a diameter less than 30 ⁇ m, and the element is arranged to transmit an amplitude-modulated electromagnetic reply signal in response to an externally applied and time-varying magnetic field.
- the objects are furthermore achieved by a method of detecting the presence of an object in a surveillance zone, the method comprising the following steps: the object is provided with a wireshaped element of amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy with magnetic properties and with a diameter less than 30 ⁇ m, electromagnetic signals are generated in the surveillance zone for exciting the wireshaped element, a time-varying magnetic modulating field is generated in the surveillance zone, electromagnetic signals generated by the wireshaped element are received and the received electromagnetic signals are analyzed with respect to a modulation in amplitude caused by the magnetic modulating field for determining the presence of the element (and consequently the object) in the surveillance zone.
- FIG 1 is a schematic block diagram of an article surveillance system, for which the present invention is applied, and FIGs 2 and 3 are examples of possible ways in which an article of clothing may be provided with a sensor according to the invention.
- FIGs 2 and 3 are examples of possible ways in which an article of clothing may be provided with a sensor according to the invention.
- FIG 1 illustrates an article surveillance system, in which a sensor according to the present invention is used.
- a transmitter antenna 11 and a receiver antenna 12 are arranged in a surveillance zone 10.
- the transmitter antenna 11 is operatively connected to an output stage 13 , which in turn is connected to a controller 14.
- the output stage comprises various commercially available driving and amplifying circuits and means for generating an electric current of high frequency, said current flowing alter- natingly back and forth through the transmitter antenna 11 when supplied thereto, wherein a high-frequency electromagnetic field of frequency f HF is generated around the transmitter antenna.
- This electromagnetic field is used, as will be described in more detail below, for exciting a sensor 22 present in the surveillance zone 10 (see FIGs 2 and 3) , so that the sensor will transmit, at the reception of elecromagnetic energy from the transmitter antenna 11, an electromagnetic reply signal, which is received by the receiver antenna 12.
- the receiver antenna 12 is operatively connected to an input stage 15, which comprises conventional means with amplifying and signal processing functions, such as bandpass filtering and amplifying circuits. Furthermore, the input stage 15 is connected to the controller 14 and is arranged to provide the latter with a received signal, which has been processed according to the following.
- the transmitter antenna 11 as well as the receiver antenna 12 thus have the purpose of converting, in a known way, between an electrical signal of high frequency and an electromagnetic signal.
- the antennas are helically formed antennas with rotating polarization (for optimal coverage in all directions) , or alternatively conventional end-fed or center-fed halfwave whip antennas, but other known antenna types are equally possible.
- the surveillance zone 10 is additionally provided with a means 16 for generating a magnetic field, preferably in the form of a coil arrangement. In sitations where the surveillance zone 10 is an antipilferage-protected shop exit, the coil arrangement is preferably, for aesthetical reasons, arranged just below the ceiling or between ceiling and roof .
- the magnetic field generating means 16 preferably comprises an electric conductor, such as copper wire, which is wound in one or more than one turns - either freely or around a coil frame.
- the coil arrangement has the shape of a rectangle, which is large enough for covering the entire intended surveillance zone, which may be the entire shop exit area or chosen portions thereof, with a magnetic modulating field described below.
- the coil arrangement 16 is connected to the controller 14 via a driving stage 17.
- the driving stage 17 comprises means for generating a modulating current i wod , which is supplied through the coil, wherein a magnetic modulating field H mod is generated around the coil and propagates through essentially the entire surveillance zone 10.
- the modulating current follows a pure sinusoidal waveform of frequency f mod , but also other, more complicated mathematical functions are possible.
- the varying modulating current generates a correspondingly varying magnetic field.
- FIGs 2 and 3 illustrate a few examples of how the sensor 22 may be applied to the monitored object (here: an article of clothing 20) .
- the sensor 22 is comprised by a very thin wireshaped element of an amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy with magnetic properties.
- the wireshaped element 22 is of a "microwire" type and has a diameter less than 30 ⁇ m.
- the amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy contains a high ratio of cobalt and furthermore a certain ratio of iron and other metals.
- a novel aspect of the present invention is instead to use, for detecting purposes, a different physical property of amorphous and nanocrystalline metal alloys, namely that the permeability of the material depends on the magnitude of an externally applied magnetic field in the longitudinal direction of the element .
- Giant Magnetoimpedance is used in such wireshaped elements, when these are exposed to an electromagnetic field of high frequency. This effect is described, i.a., in the publication "Giant Magnetoimpedance Effect in Soft Magnetic Wires for Sensor Applications” , by M Vasquez, M. Knobel, M.L. Sanchez, R. Valenzuela and A.P. Zhukov, which is available from the Instituto MagnetismoVeronicado, P.O. Box 155, 28230 Las Rozas, Spain.
- the wireshaped element 22 is more or less free from magnetostriction and will therefore not convert magnetic energy to mechanical energy, wherein the risk of undesired mechanical resonance phenomena is avoided as a consequence.
- the wireshaped element 22 is furthermore electrically conductive, and the longitudinal extension thereof is adjusted for optimum antenna functionality, as will be described below.
- the amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy of the element has an essential feature in that the permeability thereof may be controlled by the magnetic field generated by the coil arrangement 16.
- the controllable permeability is used according to the invention for controlling the amplitude of the electromagnetic reply signal transmitted from the sensor 22.
- the sensor 22 When the sensor 22, which is arranged in the object 20, is exposed to the electromagnetic excitation field with frequency f HF from the transmitter antenna 11, the sensor element 22 will act as an antenna. An electrical current is induced in the wireshaped element, provided that its length is adjusted to the frequency f HF - or actually the corresponding wavelength - of the high-frequency excitation signal. The induced current flows back and forth in the element 22, wherein an electromagnetic field is generated as a result around the element, said electromagnetic field being propagated through the surveillance zone 10 and eventually reaching the receiver antenna 12 as a reply signal, wherein the reply signal is received and supplied to the controller 14 as an indication of the sensor element 22 (and the object 20, to which the sensor element is attached) being present in the surveillance zone 10.
- the wireshaped element 22 has a double function as receiver of the electromagnetic excitation signal as well as trans- mitter of the electromagnetic reply signal. However, since these signals are of the same frequency, they would not have not been possible to differentiate, had the measures below not been taken.
- the permeability of the wireshaped element material may be controlled by the magnetic modulating field. More specifically, the amplitude of the reply signal may be controlled through the Giant Magnetoimpedance effect or Skin-Depth effect in the amorphous or nanocrystalline element material. It may be shown that the impedance Z of the wireshaped element 22 is a function of the square root of the permeability ⁇ , the frequency f and the resistivity p of the element material, i.e. Z ⁇ ( ⁇ - ⁇ -f-p) . Due to the permeability dependence of the impedance also the amplitude of the current through the conductor is changed as a function of the permeability.
- the amplitude of the current induced in the sensor element will vary in response to the variations of the magnetic modulating field in the surveillance zone, said modulating field controlling the permeability of the element, as described above.
- the electromagnetic reply signal transmitted from the element 22 is an amplitude-modulated signal, which has been modulated by the frequency of the modulating field and the carrier frequency of which is the frequency of the electromagnetic excitation signal. The presence of a modulation in amplitude of the reply signal received at the receiver antenna 12 consequently indicates the presence of the sensor element 22 in the surveillance zone 10.
- the senor is constituted solely by a very thin wireshaped element 22 of amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy with magnetic properties (a wire known as a micro- wire) .
- the element has a circular cross section and an essentially straight longitudinal extension.
- the diameter of the element is less than 30 ⁇ m and is preferably as small as about 5-15 ⁇ m.
- the length of the wireshaped element 22 will have to be adjusted to the frequency of the electromagnetic excitation signal; however, lengths between a centimeter and a few decimeters, or even longer, have proven suitable.
- Trials have shown that some types of microwires have signal properties, which are fully comparable to the signal properties of a conventional and, relatively speaking, thick wire with a diameter of for instance 125 ⁇ m. Since the diameter of a microwire is at least 10 times smaller than the diameter of a conventional amorphous wire, this will reduce the cross-sectional area and the volume a 100 times. Consequently, the sensor element according to the present invention will only require about one percent of the mass required for previously known sensor elements .
- the element 22 may be arranged at a virtually unlimited number of different positions on or inside the object 20 to be monitored. More specifically, the sensor element 22 may be placed at such positions, which are unavailable or hidden from the human eye. Even a sensor element, which is mounted at a surface level, is extremely difficult to recognize for the human eye, particularly if the exact position thereof is not known. Naturally, it is also possible to provide the object with several sensor elements 22, which are located at different appropriate positions in or on the object.
- the sensor element 22 may be sewn into for instance a collar tip 24, a cuff, a brand label, etc, when the shirt 20 is manufactured, as is shown in FIG 2.
- the sensor element may be helically or helicoidally formed for improved stability.
- the sensor element 22 may be sewn or woven into the actual cloth, as is illustrated in the enlarged section of FIG 3, at a portion of the cloth 26 of the shirt 20.
- the sensor element 22 may be integrated into the packing material already at the manufacturing thereof .
- the wireshaped element 22 may be formed as a core of amorphous or nanocrystalline metal alloy according to the above, which is coated with a sleeve of glass or another dielectric material.
- a glass coating is for instance described in "Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 8123 (1996)", “Magnetic properties of glass coated amorphous and nanocrystalline microwires” , by M. Vazquez and A.P. Zhukov.
- the glass-coating has several advantages:
- the sensor element is mechanically biased by the glass coating in the form of an interaction between the glass coating and the amorphous metal core. Certain magnetic and physical properties are influenced in a positive way in terms of the sensor function, such as the helical anisotropy of the sensor element .
- the dielectrical environment of the metal core i.e. the glass coating
- the glass coatirig isolates the sensor element electrically, which eliminates the risk of an undesired galvanic contact with other conductive materials in the monitored object. Additionally, the glass coating thermally isolates the sensor element from the environment.
- the sensor element may be reinforced by a second wireshaped support element of non-magnetic material.
- This support element is wound or wrapped together with the sensor element 22 in order to reinforce the latter.
- a yarn- type wire is formed, which advantageously may be woven into a piece of cloth, from which for instance the article of clothing is manufactured.
- the articles of clothing may already at the time of manufacture be provided with an antipilferage protection according to the invention.
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