Title :
Performance of wearable antenna exposed to adverse environmental conditions
Author :
Ivsic, Branimir ; Golemac, Goran ; Bonefacic, Davor
Author_Institution :
Dept. for Wireless Commun., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract :
A wearable microstrip patch antenna with textile substrate and reduced ground plane is designed and manufactured. The developed antenna prototype is used to investigate the influence of the human body on antenna properties. The performance of the proposed prototype in free space is compared with its performances in the presence of human body and different number of clothing layers. The influence of bending, moisture, and freezing on antenna parameters is examined. Off-body wireless link is studied with the antenna placed on the body of a human volunteer in movement. Guidelines for optimal location of the antenna on the body are proposed.
Keywords :
bending; microstrip antennas; radio links; wearable antennas; antenna bending parameter; antenna freezing parameter; antenna moisture parameter; antenna properties; clothing layers; environmental conditions; human body; off-body wireless link; reduced ground plane; textile substrate; wearable microstrip patch antenna; Antenna measurements; Microstrip antennas; Moisture; Substrates; Textiles; antenna bending; antenna in extreme environmental conditions; body-centric communications; textile antenna; wearable antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics and Communications (ICECom), 2013 21st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dubrovnik
Print_ISBN :
978-953-6037-65-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICECom.2013.6684727
