Conformal Wearable Antenna Design, Implementation and Challenges

This chapter presents the various designing methods and challenges associated with wearable antennas, selecting the designing material, various fabrication techniques, and implementation methods on the fabric. Wearable antennas have gained popularity in recent years due to their unmatched properties and unique features. The wearable antenna is capable of providing effective wireless communication, tracking, and sensing. These types of antenna need to be conformal when used on numerous parts of the human body, and they need to be lightweight, flexible, and must be implemented easily on the flexible material. These antennas must be capable of operating with maximum efficiency on the human body. These requirements make the wearable antenna design challenging. They also need to be compact in size, better in coupling with the body, and must be capable of handling issues associated with the device when the target is moving.

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Efficient wearable antenna design by patch area extension for body area network applications

2016 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP) ◽

10.1109/iccsp.2016.7754557 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Josephine Agaliya ◽

T. Mary Neebha ◽

M. Nesasudha

Keyword(s):

Antenna Design ◽

Body Area Network ◽

Area Network ◽

Patch Area ◽

Body Area ◽

Network Applications ◽

Wearable Antenna

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Wearable Antenna Materials

Design and Optimization of Sensors and Antennas for Wearable Devices - Advances in Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9683-7.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 139-162

Author(s):

Vimlesh Singh ◽

Priyanka Bansal

Keyword(s):

Antenna Design ◽

Information Availability ◽

Wearable Antenna ◽

Current Scenario ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Comprehensive Study

The aim of this chapter is to identify various materials being used currently for antenna design classified as wearable materials. In the current scenario, no study was found where collectively all the available materials and their properties could be discussed including their pros and cons features. This chapter identifies various available materials on the basis of their characteristics, availability, and the methodology of fabrication being involved along with their corresponding properties. Post detailed study and analysis done in this research enabled us to broadly classify the materials as conductive and substrate materials. This brings to the understanding that earlier no such broader classification was made available, and hence, a comprehensive study would provide us better information availability on various wearable antenna materials.

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Optimization of wearable microwave antenna with simplified electromagnetic model of the human body

Open Physics ◽

10.1515/phys-2017-0133 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 1055-1060 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Łukasz Januszkiewicz ◽

Paolo Di Barba ◽

Sławomir Hausman

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Optimization Design ◽

Impedance Matching ◽

Optimization Procedure ◽

Antenna Design ◽

Microwave Antenna ◽

Human Body Model ◽

Wearable Antenna ◽

Electromagnetic Model ◽

The Stability

AbstractIn this paper the problem of optimization design of a microwave wearable antenna is investigated. Reference is made to a specific antenna design that is a wideband Vee antenna the geometry of which is characterized by 6 parameters. These parameters were automatically adjusted with an evolution strategy based algorithm EStra to obtain the impedance matching of the antenna located in the proximity of the human body. The antenna was designed to operate in the ISM (industrial, scientific, medical) band which covers the frequency range of 2.4 GHz up to 2.5 GHz. The optimization procedure used the finite-difference time-domain method based full-wave simulator with a simplified human body model. In the optimization procedure small movements of antenna towards or away of the human body that are likely to happen during real use were considered. The stability of the antenna parameters irrespective of the movements of the user’s body is an important factor in wearable antenna design. The optimization procedure allowed obtaining good impedance matching for a given range of antenna distances with respect to the human body.

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