Design of a miniaturized UHF-band Zigbee antenna applicable to the M2M/IoT communication

Author

Jinsu Jeon ; Kyeongnam Jang ; Sungtek Kahng ; Changlim Park

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun. Eng., Incheon Nat. Univ., Incheon, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

382

Lastpage

383

Abstract

In this paper, a miniature UHF-band Zigbee antenna is proposed. Considering a lighter weight and smaller footprint of the Zigbee platform attached to a walking person, the antenna is meandered on the top and partially short circuited on the bottom, and optimized with non-uniform widths and lengths of the radiating element, and capillary paths. Due to these contributing factors, the physical area is reduced by roughly 50% from the simple monopole antenna. Besides, the bandwidth of 20 MHz is obtained for the resonance frequency of 915 MHz, working appropriately for the UHF-band Zigbee application such as M2M and IoT. The full-wave simulation with the measurement verifies the proposed design.

Keywords

Internet of Things; UHF antennas; Zigbee; monopole antennas; M2M-IoT communication; bandwidth 20 MHz; capillary paths; frequency 915 GHz; full-wave simulation; machine to machine communication; miniaturized UHF-band Zigbee antenna design; monopole antenna; nonuniform widths; radiating element; resonance frequency; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Bandwidth; Resonant frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; Wireless communication; Zigbee;

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.2014.6904523

Filename

6904523