IoT-based wearable micro-strip patch antenna with electromagnetic band gap structure for gain enhancement

Abstract

Wearable antennas used for various applications such as telemedicine, firefighting, and navigation purpose are integrated into fabrics. The antenna performance is described with the integration of Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure in which the micro-strip patch antenna (MSP) consists of flexible substrate material. The main goal of using EBG structure in micro-strip patch antenna is to overcome the limitations of patch antenna and to achieve better gain and efficiency, lower side lobes and back lobes level, better isolations among array elements, and by suppressing surface wave modes. The design of micro-strip patch antenna is proposed to resonate the antenna at 2.45 GHz using Jeans as substrate material for wearable applications which supports Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) applications. The various characteristics of antenna such as return loss and VSWR are analyzed. The simulation of antenna is done by CST studio software. Internet of Things (IoT) may be used for the development of antennas, which supports multi-standard services within a single design.