Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
by R. Anandan, Suseendran Gopalakrishnan, Souvik Pal, Noor Zaman
6Recent Advances in Wearable Antennas: A Survey
Harvinder Kaur1* and Paras Chawla2
1University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
2Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, India
Abstract
The body-worn antennas have become the emerging area for the research as it can be wearable and can be easily embedded into the clothing. The requirements of wearable antenna are increasing due to the miniaturization process and the use of flexible devices. This chapter elaborates the comparative survey of different designs of wearable antenna design technology. The substrates used for antenna designs include different textiles or conventional substrates. The textile wearable antennas are useful in body-centric communication systems and they are light in weight, flexible, and easy to integrate into the clothing. The wearable antenna covers the large span of application areas which include IoT, medical applications, UWB, telecommunications, defense applications, computing, and wearable electronic.
The different textile materials that are used in the designing of the wearable antennas are cotton, foam, jeans, polyester, nylon, silk, fleece, felt, curtain cotton, contura fabric, nylon, Kevlar fabric, etc. The different substrates have different electromagnetic properties, so the selection of the substrate material is an important parameter for consideration in the design of textile antennas. These textile antennas are fabricated using different textile ...