Diversity characterization of body-worn textile antenna system at 2.4 GHz

A body-worn textile antenna system which consists of four electrotextile patch antennas is demonstrated in this paper. A series of experiments to characterize the diversity performance of the antenna for indoor multipath environments have been conducted. From these experiments, we show that the prop...

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Main Authors: Yuehui Ouyang, Chappell, W.J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna measurements
Application software
Bandwidth
Fabrics
Humans
Patch antennas
Textiles
Wearable sensors
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:A body-worn textile antenna system which consists of four electrotextile patch antennas is demonstrated in this paper. A series of experiments to characterize the diversity performance of the antenna for indoor multipath environments have been conducted. From these experiments, we show that the proposed wearable antenna configuration delivers an 8-12 dB improvement in signal level in fading that occur 10% of the time, compared to a single antenna in the same environments
ISSN:1522-3965
1947-1491
DOI:10.1109/APS.2006.1711001