Antenna design considerations for far field and near field wireless body-centric systems

Author

Moradi, E. ; Koski, K. ; Hasani, M. ; Rahmat-Samii, Y. ; Ukkonen, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2015

fDate

2-5 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

60

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the design and realization of wearable and implantable antennas meant for wireless body-centric systems. Studied wearable antennas exploit electro-textiles, including embroidered textiles and conductive fabrics, for the light-weight and transparent integration with daily clothing. We also present mm-sized implantable loop antennas that are capable of providing electromagnetic power to implant devices from an external on-body loop antenna through near field inductive link.

Keywords

near-field communication; wearable antennas; antenna design considerations; conductive fabrics; electromagnetic power; external onbody loop antenna; far field; implantable loop antennas; near field inductive link; near field wireless body centric systems; textiles fabrics; transparent integration; wearable antennas; Antennas; Communication system security; Fabrics; Impedance; Implants; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPEM.2015.7052555

Filename

7052555