Design and analysis of a wearable antenna system for wireless safety applications

Author

Ali, M. ; Gentili, G. Biffi ; Salvador, C. ; Toccafondi, A. ; Zani, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Math., Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a wearable antenna system is presented for integration into cloths and shoes for communication purposes such as safety and tracking activities. First a dipole antenna is designed to be placed on safety shoe. Then the radiating characteristics of two antennas array is simulated for different positions on a sample shoe using a detailed simulation model with a homogeneous foot phantom. The performance of the communication link between transmitting and receiving antenna is analyzed by investigating the antenna pattern in far field at 2.45 GHz. Finally a dipole antenna prototype is built and the return loss in a body-worn configuration is measured and reported.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; wearable antennas; antenna pattern; antennas array; communication link; dipole antenna; frequency 2.45 GHz; homogeneous foot phantom; receiving antenna; transmitting antenna; wearable antenna system; wireless safety applications; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Dipole antennas; Footwear; Receiving antennas; Footwear; proximity human body; safety systems; wearable antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228565