Emmanuel Adotse Otsapa, Abdoulie Momodou Sunkary Tekanyi, Kabir Ahmed Abubilal,Mahmud Tukur Kabir, Muntari Bello,Emmanuel Kasai Akut,Oluwatobiloba Alade Ayofe and Haruna Ibrahim
Keywords: Circular microstrip patch antenna, FR-4 Substrate, Inset fed and probe technique, Linear Array, IWSN
Abstract
A 1×4 and 1×8 circular micro strip patch antenna array operating at 2.4GHz are simulated for Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) applications using CST studio suite and MATLAB based simulator software. The circular patch antenna designed on a FR4 substrate with dielectric constant of 4.4 and a substrate height of 1.6mm is fed using inset-fed technique. Several antenna characteristics such as return loss, radiation pattern, bandwidth, directivity, antenna gain, radiation efficiency is analyzed. The compact size and higher directivity help to improve the network performance by alleviating contention, increasing communication range, and mitigating interference of the system. Hence, the advantages gained, make the system more useful for IWSN applications as achieved in this research.