Multi-functional small antennas for health monitoring systems

Author

Lin, C.H. ; Ito, Kei ; Takahashi, Masaharu ; Saito, Kazuyuki

Author_Institution

Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan

Volume

01

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

572

Abstract

Body-centric wireless communications (BCWCs) have become an active area of research due to their wide range of applications. Therefore, as an interface between the transceiver and the propagation environment, antennas in these systems need to be carefully designed. Moreover, in this paper, we proposed two multi-functional antennas for on-body (10 MHz) and off-body (2.45 GHz ISM band) communications in health monitoring system. In on-body communications, the received voltage and electric-field distribution are analyzed. In addition, in off-body communications, the reflection coefficients and radiation patterns are discussed.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; body sensor networks; health care; radio transceivers; wearable antennas; body centric wireless communications; electric field distribution; frequency 10 MHz; frequency 2.45 GHz; health monitoring systems; multifunctional small antennas; off body communications; on body communications; radiation patterns; received voltage; reflection coefficients; transceiver; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Electrodes; Monitoring; Phantoms; Switches; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas & Propagation (ISAP), 2013 Proceedings of the International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-7-5641-4279-7

Type

conf

Filename

6717520