Effective Military Communication Using Multiband Wearable Antenna

Wearable antennas have become prime consideration for wearable devices as it appears compact, reliable, and robust for any solution. The traditional devices are handheld which increases the weight and systems are fragile. Thus, a wearable communication device can enhance the structure and application usages. Gadgets which is wearable on human and has contact to the body referred as Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). Communication applications are vastly used for commercial use and hence a lot of innovation happened on material design, fabrication techniques, material selection, etc. The military communication system is very essential for battlefield operations and so far, wearable devices are few adopted by the Military. This paper proposes a wearable multiband communication system that has been incorporated in the vest and that can be used during the battlefield. Further, the various challenges and issues in designing the wearable antennas are discussed. Multiband communication is faster and efficient hence SATCOM carried by a military person for terrestrial communication could be eliminated.