Design and development of textile based uwb antenna for health care application

Abstract

Body Area Wireless Communication (BAWC) has become an essential part of Health Monitoring (HM) applications. HM is performed on patients, elderly citizens, and physically and mentally challenged people to monitor the health of their bodies and communicate with the doctor or device for analysis of their health conditions. In the proposed work, two such antennas were developed using jeans as the substrate material since BAWC requires wearable or flexible materials to fabricate the antennas. Body Area Networks (BANs) are required for personal communication inside and outside the body. Wearable and textile antennas are used in BAN systems such as patient monitoring, medical equipment, firefighter safety clothing, and so on. Therefore, this work aims to design and develop antennas for biomedical applications with high gain, directivity, compactness, and improved bandwidth. Metamaterials are embedded in antennas due to their negative permittivity and permeability properties. As a result, the proposed system offers a wider bandwidth, high gain, high directivity, and smaller size. newline