ABSTRACT
The development of wearable antennas and compact transceivers for communication and biomedical systems will be described in this chapter. Design considerations, computational results and measured results of wearable compact transceivers will be presented in this chapter. The personal communication and biomedical industries have been in continuous growth in the past few years. Due to huge progress in the development of communication systems in the last decade, development of low cost wearable communication systems is not risky. However, development of compact efficient wearable antennas is one of the major challenges in the development of wearable communication and medical systems. Low profile compact antennas and transceivers are crucial in the development of wearable human communication and biomedical systems. The main goal of wireless body area networks (WBANs) is to provide continuous medical data to physicians. A system engineering methodology should be employed in the development of wearable communication systems to optimize the design and production process. System engineering methodology will be presented in this chapter.
