This paper discusses steps towards a low-power beam-switching array antenna suitable for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Such an antenna will help to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR), and thus throughput, latency and other important wireless network performance parameters. The power consumption is a factor critical for the long autonomous operation of battery-powered WSN nodes, and has thus been given special attention. A prototype was manufactured and has demonstrated a good match between the simulated and experimentally measured gain and return loss. The power consumption of the RF electronics was also measured and found to be below 1.1 mW.
Reference:
Lysko, A.A. 2012. Towards an ultra-low-power electronically controllable array antenna for WSN. International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA '12), Cape Town, 2-7 September 2012. Published in 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), pp. 642-645
Lysko, A. A. (2012). Towards an ultra-low-power electronically controllable array antenna for WSN. IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6213
Lysko, Albert A. "Towards an ultra-low-power electronically controllable array antenna for WSN." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6213
Lysko AA, Towards an ultra-low-power electronically controllable array antenna for WSN; IEEE; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6213 .
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