Body worn antennas for data sharing between dismounted soldiers

Author

Pinto, Joel ; Kitchener, D. ; Tween, L. ; Lewis, R.

Author_Institution

BAE Syst. Adv. Technol. Centre, Chelmsford, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

5-5 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

14

Abstract

The topics discussed in this paper are: · Improved communications between dismounted soldiers improves situational awareness, effectiveness and safety · Body worn antennas and COTS communications equipment offer affordable solution, without significantly increasing the load burden carried by dismounted soldiers · Architecture demonstrated for distributing video, voice & GPS data between patrol members · Metallised nylon bow-tie antenna manufactured · Bandwidth easily accommodates detuning effect of (variable) coupling to the body · Data exchange demonstrated two simultaneous video channels to wrist-mounted smartphone over 100m range, via BWA & chest-mounted router · Antenna & comms equipment integrated into clothing could be utilised by military, rescue and civil (e.g. sports & entertainments) applications.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; body area networks; bow-tie antennas; military communication; safety; smart phones; video signal processing; COTS communications equipment; GPS; body worn antennas; data sharing; dismounted soldiers; metallised nylon bow-tie antenna; safety; situational awareness; video channels; wrist-mounted smartphone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Body-Centric Wireless Communications, IET Seminar on

Conference_Location

London

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-757-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic.2013.0063

Filename

6624703