Body-centric Wireless Hospital Patient Monitoring Networks using Body-contoured Flexible Antennas

This study presents empirical results from a measurement campaign to investigate futuristic body-centric medical mesh networks for a hospitalised patient using flexible body-contouring antennas. It studies path loss in a medical environment (in a hospital bed in an open hospital ward) for ultra-wideband (UWB) and four narrowband schemes concurrently. It firstly investigates the antenna contouring ...