Wearable textile antenna for indoor applications

There is a great development in wireless communication were wireless plays a important role in all day to day things starting from home appliances to military application. Antenna is a device that plays a major role in these applications. Wearable antenna have been welcome nowadays due to the UWB that promises high data rate with wider bandwidth along with low power consumption. Textile antenna is more compatible for wearable antenna because of its small size and it can be integrated directly into the cloth. In this work a Ultra Wide Band (UWB) wearable textile antenna is designed with Cordura Fabric as substrate and Taffeta fabric is used as conducting material. Four antennas is designed and simulated using EMPro software and the performance of the antenna was studied and compared between them. The proposed antenna is said to have a large bandwidth from 2 GHz to 9.6 GHz. The return loss of the antenna is -29 dB at 8.1 GHz.