Antennas for a body area network

Author

Adel, Heike ; Wansch, R. ; Schmidt, C.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

471

Abstract

Wireless data transmission is becoming very popular in medical applications. Wireless monitoring of vital functions is one of the evident aspects to make life easier and even safer in the hospital. The most mentioned second aspect is home care, where people can live in their familiar surroundings. This data transmission has been embedded in a body area network with distributed devices, which communicate with a belt-mounted gateway. The article describes two different antennas, which were designed for operation at 868 MHz close to the human body. A patch antenna on ceramic substrate with a high dielectric constant and a planar inverted F-antenna.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; distributed sensors; microstrip antennas; patient monitoring; 868 MHz; PIFA; body area network; ceramic substrate; far-field pattern; high dielectric constant; patch antenna; planar inverted F-antenna; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical monitoring; Body area networks; Ceramics; Data communication; Dielectric substrates; Hospitals; Humans; Medical services; Patch antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7846-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2003.1217499

Filename

1217499