A dual band planar inverted F antenna for body-centric wireless communications

Author

Khan, M.M. ; Magani, M. ; Rahman, Aminur ; Parini, Clive

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

26-26 March 2012

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

64

Abstract

In this paper, a dual band planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) is proposed intended to be applied in various applications in healthcare and sport monitoring. The antenna is dual band at 2.45 GHz (ISM band) to communicate with other co-located body-worn devices scattered on the body or body worn base station and 1.9 GHz (PCS) band to communicate from on-body device to off-body units/access point or other wider e-health networks. The free space and on-body measured and simulated performances of the proposed antenna are shown and analyzed. The antenna shows very good on-body radiation efficiency as 58.03 % for 1.9 GHz and 52.0 % for 2.45 GHz. The dual band PIFA also shows good on-body gain as 3.74 dBi and 3.08 dBi at 1.9 GHz and 2.45 GHz respectively.

Keywords

body area networks; health care; monitoring; planar inverted-F antennas; sport; ISM band; PIFA; body-centric wireless communications; body-worn devices; dual band planar inverted F antenna; e-health networks; frequency 1.9 GHz; frequency 2.45 GHz; health care; sport monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Passive RF and Microwave Components, 3rd Annual Seminar on

Conference_Location

London

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-542-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic.2012.0064

Filename

6297603