A Review On Wearable Textile Antenna: December 2015
A Review On Wearable Textile Antenna: December 2015
A Review On Wearable Textile Antenna: December 2015
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Abstract
In today’s world, importance of wearable textile antennas has gained importance for
healthcare and pervasive applications. Utilization of wearable textile materials for the
development of microstrip antenna segment has been rapid due to the recent miniaturization
of wireless devices. The use of wearable textile antennas is increasing rapidly in wireless
applications. A wearable antenna is meant to be a part of the clothing used for communication
purposes, which includes tracking and navigation, mobile computing and public safety.
Specific requirements for wearable antennas are a planar structure and flexible construction
materials. Several properties of the materials influence the characteristics of the antenna. For
instance, the bandwidth and the efficiency of a planar microstrip antenna are mainly
determined by the permittivity and the thickness of the substrate. The use of textiles in
wearable antennas requires the characterization of their properties. This paper reviews a
variety of wearable textile antennas in order to provide background information and
application ideas for designing such antennas. The various materials used in the construction
of wearable textile antennas, their fabrication methods, as well as the antenna types and their
application fields are summarized.
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A Review on Wearable Textile Antenna Yadav et al.
The structure of the system and the connection practical use of textile antennas is most
of the antenna are presented in Figure 1. It convenient when they are integrated into
consists of a remote monitor unit that is clothing. The necessary requirements of
capable of receiving data via radio from smart wearable antenna designing are planar
clothes equipped with sensors, a radio structure, flexible conductive materials in the
transmitter and antenna. To make body-centric patch and ground plane, and flexible dielectric
communications is wearable, fabric-based materials. This paper is focused on the
antennas are recent field of research. All properties of textile materials, which is
wearable antennas require light weight, low dielectric fabrics used in antennas and some
cost, almost maintenance-free and no fabrication methods for the textile antenna.
installation for modern application. The
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Volume 2, Issue 3
ISSN: 2454-6372(online)
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Journal of Telecommunication, Switching Systems and Networks
Volume 2, Issue 3
ISSN: 2454-6372(online)
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