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Smart antenna technology for structural health monitoring applications

Author(s) -

Tayfun Özdemir,

Yuriy Goykhman,

Larry M. Oberdier,

Jerome P. Lynch

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.847602

Subject(s) - computer science , antenna (radio) , smart antenna , antenna rotator , reconfigurable antenna , antenna measurement , periscope antenna , antenna aperture , omnidirectional antenna , electrical engineering , telecommunications , electronic engineering , antenna efficiency , dipole antenna , coaxial antenna , engineering

A smart antenna has been developed for structural health monitoring. The antenna is based on Monarch's GEN 2 selfstructuring antenna (SSA) technology and provides polarization and beam-diversity for improving signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The antenna works with University of Michigan's Narada platform, where a microcontroller monitors the RSSI and selects the best beam to maintain reliable RF link. Antenna has two wide beams for each polarization and the beams are selected by applying appropriate DC voltages to the RF switches on the antenna aperture. Paper presents the GEN C antenna, which is a smaller version of the GEN 2B with comparable performance features.

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