Assessment of Worn Textile Antennas’ Exposure on the Physiological Parameters and Well-Being of Adults
Khuzairi Masrakin,
Hasliza A. Rahim,
Ping Jack Soh,
Mohdfareq Abdulmalek,
Ismahayati Adam,
Mohd Nazri Bin Mohd Warip,
Qammer H. Abbasi,
Xiaodong Yang
Affiliations
Khuzairi Masrakin
Bioelectromagnetics Research Group (BioEM), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis at Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau, Malaysia
Bioelectromagnetics Research Group (BioEM), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis at Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau, Malaysia
Advanced Communication Engineering (ACE) Centre of Excellence, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis at Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau, Malaysia
Bioelectromagnetics Research Group (BioEM), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis at Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau, Malaysia
Mohd Nazri Bin Mohd Warip
Embedded, Networks and Advanced Computing Research Cluster (ENAC), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis at Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau, Malaysia
Qammer H. Abbasi
School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.
This paper presents the assessment of short-term wireless body area network (WBAN) exposure, which is operated at the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.45 GHz) in the vicinity of the human body. The experiment utilizes two popular textile antenna topologies, a planar monopole and a patch antenna as the radiating sources. The objective of this experiment is to investigate whether the exposure from WBAN may influence the physiological parameters (body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate) and the well-being of the wearer. Counter-balanced, crossover, and the single-blind method was applied in the experimental setup. P-value is the probability value, under the assumption of no effect or no difference (the null hypothesis) of obtaining a result equal to or more extreme than what was actually observed. If P<; 0.05, it indicates that P-value will be less than the level of significance. Thus, the null hypothesis (no effect or no difference) can be rejected, and it can be concluded that there exist effects to the respondents. The results showed that there is statistically no significant difference between the active exposure and the Sham (no exposure) which may affect the physiological parameters and well-being of the wearers, with P>0.05, which failed to reject the null hypothesis (no effect).
