Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing an NR protocol for UE-based tag detection that reduces the interference to other ongoing NR traffic while minimizing the gNB coordination overhead. One method may include receiving (402a) a conditional activation configuration from a network entity configured to activate an ambient device; transmitting (407) an activation signal to the ambient device according to at least one activation rule comprised in the activation configuration on at least one candidate resource that satisfying at least one measurement test condition; and reporting (408) to the network entity at least one resource index that satisfies the at least one measurement test condition and at least one activation rule.