Abstract
Since the Internet of Things (IoT) enabled medical diagnostic system requires unprecedented precision and automation for better health care delivery, therefore in such systems, the performance of antennas for efficiently transferring data (vital functions of the human body) is an important task. To address these concerns, a mechanically robust, novel hybrid wearable on-body antenna inspired by Moore’s fractal-based geometry and conventional rectangular loop for a diagnostic health monitoring system is proposed. The structure developed involves the etching of Moore’s curve onto a conventional rectangular patch and subsequently encasing it in a rectangular loop along with a defected ground structure. The proposed antenna exhibits dual-band with bandwidth ranging from 1.38 - 1.8 GHz and 2.25 - 4.88 GHz respectively, covering WMTS, ISM, and Personal Communication band besides covering a portion of UWB band also. The two operating bands of the antenna are wideband with fractional bandwidth of 38.5% and 73% respectively. It is observed that the average specific absorption rate (SAR) over the multi-layer phantom is 0.025 W/kg for an input power of ≈ 24 dBm. In comparison to the recently reported wearable antennas, the design proposed has a compact footprint of 0.135 λo x 0.093λo x 0.004λo besides offering a dual- band of operation, peak gain of 2.2 dBi, overall radiated efficiency of 95% and SAR below 0.025 W/kg. The design is fabricated using Rogers 5880 substrate (semi-flex) of thickness 0.75 mm. The experimental results validate the simulated results making the proposed antenna a promising candidate for the bio-medical application. On analysing the performance of the proposed antenna onto the human body (human body loading), it is concluded that the proposed antenna structure is appropriate for bio-telemetric application in diagnostic health monitoring systems wherein data is relayed from all bio-sensors to remote control systems.
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