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Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications

Osman, Mai A. R. and Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal and Samsuri, Noor Asmawati and Salim, H. A. M. and Ali, Mehdi F. (2011) Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications. Progress In Electromagnetics Research (Pier), 117 . pp. 321-337. ISSN 1070-4698

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/PIER11041208

Abstract

Telecommunication systems integrated within garments and wearable products are such methods by which medical devices are making an impact on enhancing healthcare provisions around the clock. These garments when fully developed will be capable of alerting and demanding attention if and when required along with minimizing hospital resources and labour. Furthermore, they can play a major role in preventative ailments, health irregularities and unforeseen heart or brain disorders in apparently healthy individuals. This work presents the feasibility of investigating an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) antenna made from fully textile materials that were used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Simulated and measured results show that the proposed antenna design meets the requirements of wide working bandwidth and provides 17 GHz bandwidth with compact size, washable and flexible materials. Results in terms of return loss, bandwidth, radiation pattern, current distribution as well as gain and effciency are presented to validate the usefulness of the current manuscript design. The work presented here has profound implications for future studies of a standalone suite that may one day help to provide wearer (patient) with such reliable and comfortable medical monitoring techniques.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:current distribution, flexible materials, healthy individuals, implications for futures, monitoring applications
Subjects:T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:Electrical Engineering
ID Code:29044
Deposited By: Yanti Mohd Shah
Deposited On:21 Feb 2013 08:13
Last Modified:05 Mar 2019 01:34

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