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Electromagnetic exposure — Short-term 2.45 GHz wireless body area network exposure from worn textile antennas

Submitted 2026-10-22

Field: Engineering › Biomedical EngineeringType: No effect foundArea: electromagnetic exposureArea: wearable antennasTarget: Short-term 2.45 GHz wireless body area network exposure from worn textile antennasStage: full study

Hypothesis

Short-term exposure to a body-worn 2.45 GHz wireless body area network, radiated by textile monopole or patch antennas, would alter the wearer's body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate or sense of well-being.

What failed

In a counterbalanced, crossover, single-blind experiment with both antenna topologies, the measured physiological parameters and well-being did not differ significantly from control; the null hypothesis of no effect was not rejected.

Broken assumption

Wearing an active 2.45 GHz body-area-network antenna measurably changes the wearer's physiology or well-being over the short term.

Why

The paper reports the null without proposing a mechanism, and the abstract's statistical description is partly garbled in the indexed text.

From the published paper: Masrakin et al. IEEE Access, 2019. ↗CC BY

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