WEARABLE ANTENNA

 Wearable Antennas are essentially any antenna that is

specifically designed to function while being worn.

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 INTRODUCTION

 Personal Area Network(PAN)

 Body Area Network(BAN)
 Wearable Gadgets: Wearable Biosensors, Cameras,
Computers, Electronics, Fitness Devices, etc.
 Wearable antenna: Antenna integrated as a part of
our clothing.

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ISSUES IN WEARABLE ANTENNA

 Frequency detuning during on-body measurements

 Frequency detuning during bending and crumpling

scenarios.

 Reduction of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

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 SPECIFIC ABSORBTION RATE
 Specific absorption rate (SAR) is a measure of the rate at
which energy is absorbed by the human body when exposed to a radio
frequency (RF) electromagnetic field and other forms of energy by tissue,
including ultrasound.
 The power absorbed per mass of tissue
 Unit:  Watts per kilogram (W/kg)
 SAR is usually averaged either over the whole body, or over a small sample
volume (typically 1 g or 10 g of tissue). The value cited is then the maximum
level measured in the body part studied over the stated volume or mass.
 The FCC requires that phones sold have a SAR level at or below
1.6 Watts per kilogram (W/kg) taken over the volume containing a mass of
1 gram of tissue that is absorbing the most signal.
 According to IEC standards. For mobile phones, and other such hand-held
devices, the SAR limit is 2 W/kg averaged over the 10 g of tissue absorbing
the most signal
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 TECHNIQUES DEPLOYED TO ADDRESS
ISSUES IN WEARABLE ANTENNA DESIGN

 Obtaining wideband operation

 Full ground plane designs

 Integration with electromagnetic band gap (EBG)

structures

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 APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE
ANTENNA

 Assistance to emergency services: police, paramedics,

fire fighters.
 Military applications: soldier location tracking, image
and video transmission, instant decentralized
communication.
 Augmented reality.
 Navigation support.
 Pulse rate monitoring.

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 IMPORTANT WORKS ON WEARABLE ANTENNA
AUTHORS
(YEAR) TITLE
Determination of dielectric
constant of fabric materials
S. Sankaralingam, and and their use as substrates
B. Gupta (2010) for design and development
of antennas for wearable
applications
T. Watanabe, and H. Wearable finger dual-band
Iwasaki (2012) antenna for BAN
B. Sanz Izquierdo, F.
Huang, and J. C. Covert dual-band wearable
Batchelor (2006) button antenna
WORK PROPOSED
Technique based on the resonance
method to measure the dielectric
constant of fabric substrate
materials used for the development
of wearable antennas
Implementation of dual-band in
finger ring antennas. However
coupling between fingers degrades
the performance.
Multilayered structure.
Radiation patterns are
omnidirectional around the central
post of the antenna.
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 IMPORTANT WORKS ON WEARABLE ANTENNA

AUTHORS TITLE WORK PROPOSED

(YEAR)
M-shaped printed monopole
H. R. Raad, A. I. Flexible and compact AMC antenna operating in the ISM 2.45
Abbosh, H. M. Al-Rizzo, based antenna for GHz band integrated with a
and D. G. Rucker (2013) telemedicine applications miniaturized slotted Jerusalem
Cross (JC) Artificial Magnetic
Conductor (AMC) ground plane.

Monopole antenna with Microstrip monopole antenna

S. Kim, Y. J. Ren, H. inkjet printed EBG array on integrated with a printed EBG array
Lee, S. Nikolaou, and paper substrate for is placed above a Copper sheet,
M. M. Tentzeris (2012) wearable applications designed frequency range 2.4-2.5
GHz.

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