Smart blanket: Flexible and easy to couple waveguide

Author

Eom, K. ; Arai, H.

Author_Institution

Div. of Phys., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

16-19 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

18

Abstract

This paper presents a novel concept data collecting device for body-centric wireless communications, smart robe or blanket. It couples to sensor units on human body wirelessly by just putting on the human body. It is consisting of textile-based free access mat. The free access mat is a thin sheet-shaped waveguide which wireless devices can couple to at an arbitrary position on it. We investigate the transmission characteristics depending on materials, folding or bending, the presence of the human body.

Keywords

body area networks; body sensor networks; waveguides; body-centric wireless communications; concept data collecting device; sensor units; sheet-shaped waveguide; smart blanket; smart robe; textile-based free access mat; transmission characteristics; wireless devices; Antenna measurements; Conductivity; Loss measurement; Propagation losses; Resonant frequency; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; body-centric communication; free access mat; sheet-like waveguide; wearable device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2011 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8316-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8317-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOWIRELESS.2011.5724343

Filename

5724343