Wearable electronics and smart textiles: A critical review

M Stoppa, A Chiolerio - sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Electronic Textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that feature electronics and interconnections
woven into them, presenting physical flexibility and typical size that cannot be achieved with …

Textile materials for the design of wearable antennas: A survey

R Salvado, C Loss, R Gonçalves, P Pinho - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
In the broad context of Wireless Body Sensor Networks for healthcare and pervasive
applications, the design of wearable antennas offers the possibility of ubiquitous monitoring …

Flexible 16 antenna array for microwave breast cancer detection

H Bahramiabarghouei, E Porter… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar-based microwave imaging has been widely studied for breast cancer detection in
recent times. Sensing dielectric property differences of tissues has been studied over a wide …

Embroidery and related manufacturing techniques for wearable antennas: challenges and opportunities

A Tsolis, WG Whittow, AA Alexandridis… - Electronics, 2014 - mdpi.com
This paper will review the evolution of wearable textile antennas over the last couple of
decades. Particular emphasis will be given to the process of embroidery. This technique is …

Body sensor networks: In the era of big data and beyond

CCY Poon, BPL Lo, MR Yuce… - IEEE reviews in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Body sensor networks (BSN) have emerged as an active field of research to connect and
operate sensors within, on or at close proximity to the human body. BSN have unique roles …

Flexible, polarization-diverse UWB antennas for implantable neural recording systems

H Bahrami, SA Mirbozorgi, R Ameli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Implanted antennas for implant-to-air data communications must be composed of material
compatible with biological tissues. We design single and dual-polarization antennas for …

Wearable Antennas for Off-Body Radio Links at VHF and UHF Bands: Challenges, the state of the art, and future trends below 1 GHz

P Nepa, H Rogier - IEEE antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An in-depth survey of wearable antennas for offbody radio links in the very high-frequency
(VHF) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) bands (below 1 GHz) is presented. The review …

Embroidered multiband body-worn antenna for GSM/PCS/WLAN communications

Z Wang, LZ Lee, D Psychoudakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel textile-based body-worn antenna covering the Global System for Mobile
Communications/personal communications services/wireless local-area network frequency …

Smart coat with a fully-embedded textile antenna for IoT applications

C Loss, R Gonçalves, C Lopes, P Pinho, R Salvado - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) scenario is strongly related with the advance of the development
of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems …

Textile antennas and sensors for body-worn applications

L Zhang, Z Wang, JL Volakis - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents novel body-worn antennas and medical sensors based on embroidered
conductive polymer fibers (e-fibers) on textiles. This technology offers attractive mechanical …