TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a finger ring antenna for wireless sensor networks
AU - Farooq, Waqas
AU - Ur-Rehman, Masood
AU - Abbassi, Qammer Hussain
AU - Xiaodong, Yang
AU - Qaraqe, Khalid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 European Association of Antennas and Propagation.
PY - 2016/5/31
Y1 - 2016/5/31
N2 - Body-centric communications have become very active area of research due to ever-growing demand of portability. Advanced applications such as; health monitoring, tele-medicine, identification systems, performance monitoring of athletes, defence systems and personal entertainment are adding to its popularity. In this paper, a novel wearable antenna radiating at 5 GHz for the body-centric wireless sensor networks has been presented. The antenna consists of a conventional microstrip patch mounted on a gold base and could be worn in a finger like a ring. CST Microwave Studio is used for modelling, simulation and optimisation of the antenna. The simulated results show that the proposed antenna has a -10 dB bandwidth of 90.3 MHz with peak gain of 6.9 dBi. Good performance in terms of bandwidth, directivity, gain, return loss and radiation characteristics, along with a miniaturised form factor makes it a very well suited candidate for the body-worn wireless sensor applications.
AB - Body-centric communications have become very active area of research due to ever-growing demand of portability. Advanced applications such as; health monitoring, tele-medicine, identification systems, performance monitoring of athletes, defence systems and personal entertainment are adding to its popularity. In this paper, a novel wearable antenna radiating at 5 GHz for the body-centric wireless sensor networks has been presented. The antenna consists of a conventional microstrip patch mounted on a gold base and could be worn in a finger like a ring. CST Microwave Studio is used for modelling, simulation and optimisation of the antenna. The simulated results show that the proposed antenna has a -10 dB bandwidth of 90.3 MHz with peak gain of 6.9 dBi. Good performance in terms of bandwidth, directivity, gain, return loss and radiation characteristics, along with a miniaturised form factor makes it a very well suited candidate for the body-worn wireless sensor applications.
KW - Gold ring
KW - Microstrip patch
KW - On-body applications
KW - Tele-health monitoring
KW - Wearable sensors
KW - Wireless Body Area Networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979220542&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481827
DO - 10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481827
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979220542
T3 - 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016
BT - 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016
Y2 - 10 April 2016 through 15 April 2016
ER -