Projects:2018s1-196 Concealed Wearable Antennas

The aim of this project is to design two button antennas as wearable technology that can be attached to the clothes. The button will be designed based on metallic antenna plates and another one based on dielectric plates. The simulation tools of Computer Simulation Technology, CST will be used for simulation and the designs will be fabricated and tested in real life. The antennas also should be designed with 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency band and have Omni-directional radiation patterns.

Introduction

The wearable technology become important to our daily lives in this new development era. So, button antenna is chosen as the best candidate for wearable antenna. As we know, buttons are already included in many clothes that we wear every day. They can be located in different areas on textiles as well such as on t-shirt, jeans, jackets and others. Some of them also using multiple buttons on a cloth. So buttons are already heavily used in textiles or clothing. Users already accepted the look of the button so there is no need for users to refine the fashion or accept the new concepts as they already comfortable wearing buttons on their daily life. Many of them also already made from metal so incorporating metallic button in the antenna would not be a new concept to the users. The buttons also have small and circular in shape as well in which they are compact and easy to carry. Hence, there is an opportunity for buttons to serve a double-purpose which is ideal when looking at the wearable technology.

Project team

Project students

• Christian Colombo
• Siti Nurfatinah Faizal

Supervisors

• Prof. Christophe Fumeaux
• Dr. Shengjian Chen (Jammy)

Project status

Design, fabrication and testing completed.