Full Embroidery Designed Electro-Textile Wearable Tag Antenna for WBAN Application

A flexible and totally wearable textile antenna is proposed by embroidering the conductive threads into garments. A purely polyester substrate has been utilized, which provides a tag that can be easily integrated with the clothes. The proposed tag antenna is small with dimensions of 72 × 20 × 2.75 m...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2019-05, Vol.19 (11), p.2470
Main Authors: Abbas, Bahaa, K Khamas, Salam, Ismail, Alyani, Sali, Aduwati
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
antenna
Antennas
body-centric
Computer simulation
Design
Elasticity
electro-textile
embroidery
Garments
Impedance matching
Needlework
Polyesters
Radio frequency identification
RFID tags
Semiconductors
Sewing
Textiles
ultra-high-frequency
WBAN
wearable
Wearable technology
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Summary:A flexible and totally wearable textile antenna is proposed by embroidering the conductive threads into garments. A purely polyester substrate has been utilized, which provides a tag that can be easily integrated with the clothes. The proposed tag antenna is small with dimensions of 72 × 20 × 2.75 mm and offers an enhanced performance in terms of gain and stability when worn on different body locations. Experimental results demonstrate an improved impedance matching owing to the elasticity of the E-shaped inductive feeder. Close agreement has been achieved between the simulated and measured results.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s19112470