Design of a miniaturized UHF-band Zigbee antenna applicable to the M2M/IoT communication

In this paper, a miniature UHF-band Zigbee antenna is proposed. Considering a lighter weight and smaller footprint of the Zigbee platform attached to a walking person, the antenna is meandered on the top and partially short circuited on the bottom, and optimized with non-uniform widths and lengths o...

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Main Authors: Jinsu Jeon, Kyeongnam Jang, Sungtek Kahng, Changlim Park
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna measurements
Antennas
Bandwidth
Resonant frequency
Semiconductor device measurement
Wireless communication
Zigbee
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Summary:In this paper, a miniature UHF-band Zigbee antenna is proposed. Considering a lighter weight and smaller footprint of the Zigbee platform attached to a walking person, the antenna is meandered on the top and partially short circuited on the bottom, and optimized with non-uniform widths and lengths of the radiating element, and capillary paths. Due to these contributing factors, the physical area is reduced by roughly 50% from the simple monopole antenna. Besides, the bandwidth of 20 MHz is obtained for the resonance frequency of 915 MHz, working appropriately for the UHF-band Zigbee application such as M2M and IoT. The full-wave simulation with the measurement verifies the proposed design.
ISSN:1522-3965
1947-1491
DOI:10.1109/APS.2014.6904523