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

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications (ICECom), 2013 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

Print_ISBN

978-953-6037-65-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECom.2013.6684727

Filename

6684727