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Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications

Telecommunication systems integrated within garments and wearable products are such methods by which medical devices are making an impact on enhancing healthcare provisions around the clock. These garments when fully developed will be capable of alerting and demanding attention if and when required...

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Main Authors:	Osman, Mai A. R., Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal, Samsuri, Noor Asmawati, Salim, H. A. M., Ali, Mehdi F.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Electromagnetics Academy 2011
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/1/MaiAROsman2011_EmbroideredFullyTextileWearableAntennaforMedical.pdf http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/ http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/PIER11041208
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spelling	my.utm.290442019-03-05T01:34:25Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/ Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications Osman, Mai A. R. Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal Samsuri, Noor Asmawati Salim, H. A. M. Ali, Mehdi F. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Telecommunication systems integrated within garments and wearable products are such methods by which medical devices are making an impact on enhancing healthcare provisions around the clock. These garments when fully developed will be capable of alerting and demanding attention if and when required along with minimizing hospital resources and labour. Furthermore, they can play a major role in preventative ailments, health irregularities and unforeseen heart or brain disorders in apparently healthy individuals. This work presents the feasibility of investigating an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) antenna made from fully textile materials that were used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Simulated and measured results show that the proposed antenna design meets the requirements of wide working bandwidth and provides 17 GHz bandwidth with compact size, washable and flexible materials. Results in terms of return loss, bandwidth, radiation pattern, current distribution as well as gain and effciency are presented to validate the usefulness of the current manuscript design. The work presented here has profound implications for future studies of a standalone suite that may one day help to provide wearer (patient) with such reliable and comfortable medical monitoring techniques. Electromagnetics Academy 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/1/MaiAROsman2011_EmbroideredFullyTextileWearableAntennaforMedical.pdf Osman, Mai A. R. and Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal and Samsuri, Noor Asmawati and Salim, H. A. M. and Ali, Mehdi F. (2011) Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications. Progress In Electromagnetics Research (Pier), 117 . pp. 321-337. ISSN 1070-4698 http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/PIER11041208 DOI:10.2528/PIER11041208
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spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Osman, Mai A. R. Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal Samsuri, Noor Asmawati Salim, H. A. M. Ali, Mehdi F. Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
description	Telecommunication systems integrated within garments and wearable products are such methods by which medical devices are making an impact on enhancing healthcare provisions around the clock. These garments when fully developed will be capable of alerting and demanding attention if and when required along with minimizing hospital resources and labour. Furthermore, they can play a major role in preventative ailments, health irregularities and unforeseen heart or brain disorders in apparently healthy individuals. This work presents the feasibility of investigating an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) antenna made from fully textile materials that were used for the substrate as well as the conducting parts of the designed antenna. Simulated and measured results show that the proposed antenna design meets the requirements of wide working bandwidth and provides 17 GHz bandwidth with compact size, washable and flexible materials. Results in terms of return loss, bandwidth, radiation pattern, current distribution as well as gain and effciency are presented to validate the usefulness of the current manuscript design. The work presented here has profound implications for future studies of a standalone suite that may one day help to provide wearer (patient) with such reliable and comfortable medical monitoring techniques.
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author	Osman, Mai A. R. Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal Samsuri, Noor Asmawati Salim, H. A. M. Ali, Mehdi F.
author_facet	Osman, Mai A. R. Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Kamal Samsuri, Noor Asmawati Salim, H. A. M. Ali, Mehdi F.
author_sort	Osman, Mai A. R.
title	Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
title_short	Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
title_full	Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
title_fullStr	Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
title_full_unstemmed	Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
title_sort	embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications
publisher	Electromagnetics Academy
publishDate	2011
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/1/MaiAROsman2011_EmbroideredFullyTextileWearableAntennaforMedical.pdf http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29044/ http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/PIER11041208
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Embroidered fully textile wearable antenna for medical monitoring applications

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