Wideband low-profile monopole antenna for mobile and wireless monitoring applications

B. El Jaafari (1) , Jean Marie Floc'H (1)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique

A compact wideband monopole antenna for mobile and wireless monitoring applications is presented. The proposed antenna will be implemented in a wireless system devoted to remote monitoring water and wastewater applications. The antenna is mainly designed to operate within the frequency range of 700-2700 MHz covering different mobile and wireless frequency bands with a return loss less than -6dB. Omnidirectional radiation pattern and improved radiation performances are very suitable. An optimization process based on global algorithm has been used to achieve the design goals. The design of the proposed antenna is carried out using optimization and simulation tools of full-wave electromagnetic simulation software. A prototype of the proposed antenna was manufactured and tested in order to verify the performances of the antenna including in the real environment conditions. © 2016 European Association of Antennas and Propagation.

Keywords: Computer software; Directional patterns (antenna); Frequency bands; Mobile telecommunication systems; Monopole antennas; Wireless telecommunication systems; Compact antenna; Full-wave electromagnetic simulation; Mobile communications; Omnidirectional radiation pattern; Radiation performance; Wideband antenna; Wideband monopole antennas; Wireless communications; Omnidirectional antennas

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics

B. El Jaafari, Jean Marie Floc'H. Wideband low-profile monopole antenna for mobile and wireless monitoring applications. 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016, Apr 2016, Davos, Switzerland. pp.7481837, ⟨10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481837⟩. ⟨hal-01368153⟩