Flexible and Wearable Antennas: Enabling Smart Healthcare Systems

Abstract

The efficiency in merging wireless technology with monitoring health care is considerable since stretchy and wearable antennas have a crucial role to play. Such applications with regards to the healthcare that relies on the designing of this ear piece, where by electrical parts such as connectors, antennas, and circuits are incorporated to provide weightless, data collecting and transferring functions include, all elements of medical diagnostics, fitness and remote monitoring of patients. The integration of IoT in smart health system (IoT-SHS) achieves such goals as enhanced user experience without lowering pain tolerance ratios with high-performance materials and supply chain such as conductive materials and nanoparticles. In smart health care systems the wearable sensors would facilitate monitoring of such parameters as blood pressure, heart rates, glucose level. This allows medical attention to be received more speedily and aids in decreasing unnecessary patient appointments. The data picked up by the antennas parameters up to professionals in the work field making remote diagnosis with specific treatment. Better outcomes for health are also provided by the greater accuracy and reliability of data supplied through the combination of IoT-enabled devices connectable with flexible antennas. This paper presents some of the recent advances in flexible and wearable antennas for effective communication within smart healthcare networks. A perspective on future directions in wearable health technology development as well as the challenges related to design, material selection and integration strategies are presented.