[wonderous]

Anyone know of any notable related research on real world use of this tech?

Best I was able to find was "An Investigation of Fading on a Short Range 900MHz radio link":

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/10/11-10-1355-00-00ah-fad...

[junkcollector]

You might have more luck looking at Active RFID. The same technology in any meaningful sense.