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

Bahaa Abbas; Salam K. Khamas; Alyani Ismail; Aduwati Sali

doi:10.3390/s19112470

Sensors (May 2019)

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

Bahaa Abbas,
Salam K. Khamas,
Alyani Ismail,
Aduwati Sali

Affiliations

Bahaa Abbas: Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
Salam K. Khamas: The Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Alyani Ismail: Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
Aduwati Sali: Wireless and Photonics Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s19112470
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 19, no. 11
p. 2470

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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 mm3 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.

Published in Sensors

ISSN: 1424-8220 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Chemical technology
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors

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