An armband-wearable printed antenna with a full ground plane for body area networks

Author

Abbas, Saad Mutashar ; Esselle, Karu P. ; Ranga, Yogesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

319

Abstract

This paper presents a printed antenna with a full ground plane, suitable for wearable armbands and other such body area network devices operating in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.45 GHz). Performance and characteristics are presented along with parametric analyses. Antenna performance is investigated under conformal bending over human arm to assess its suitability for armband-type body centric wireless communication devices. The full ground plane makes the antenna performance highly insensitive to the gap between the antenna and the arm. It also reduces electromagnetic radiation absorption in the arm. The proposed antenna exhibits a wide radiation pattern along the body surface to provide better coverage and its narrow width (14mm) makes it suitable for wearable on-body applications.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; microstrip antennas; wearable antennas; ISM band; antenna performance; armband-type body centric wireless communication devices; body area network devices; conformal bending; electromagnetic radiation absorption; human arm; industrial scientific and medical band; printed antenna; wearable armbands; wearable on-body applications; Antenna radiation patterns; Body area networks; Feeds; Microwave antennas; Performance evaluation; Body centric; Conformal; Curved; Human arm; ISM; On-body; Printed antenna; Wearable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904491

Filename

6904491