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International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

BIOSTEC 2014: Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies pp 52–65Cite as

Novel Wireless Systems for Telemedicine and Body Area Networks Applications

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The demand for novel wireless system solutions is increasing exponentially in today’s world. Wireless systems are extremely beneficial and applied in a wide spectrum of fields such as: personal communication, medicine, military, firefighting, entertainment, aeronautics, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). In this chapter, the design and analysis of two compact antennas aimed for telemedicine and Body Area Networks (BAN) are presented. The first design is based on a MIMO antenna array utilizing µ-negative metamaterial (MNG) structures that lead to low correlation between antennas when placed closely on a user’s body. The antenna array resonates at 5.2 GHz. The second design is a mechanically flexible directional Yagi-Uda antenna resonating at 2.5 GHz for on-body communication. Both designs have the merits of light weight, low profile, mechanical robustness, compactness, and high efficiency. Such properties suggest that the proposed designs would be reasonable candidates for telemedicine and BAN applications that are constrained by limited physical space.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA

    Haider Khaleel & Casey White

  2. Department of Systems Engineering, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Chitranjan Singh, Hussain Al-Rizzo & Seshadri Mohan

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Khaleel, H., Singh, C., White, C., Al-Rizzo, H., Mohan, S. (2015). Novel Wireless Systems for Telemedicine and Body Area Networks Applications. In: Plantier, G., Schultz, T., Fred, A., Gamboa, H. (eds) Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26129-4_4

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