Automatic Measurement and Analysis of Antenna Radiation Characteristics for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Radiation characteristics of the antenna in wireless sensor network is an important parameter but often overlooked. An important reason for this is that the antenna radiation characteristics measurement process is professional, expensive and time-consuming. This paper presents an antenna measurements automated test system for wireless sensor networks, which could quickly and easily implement measurement and data processing of the antenna radiation characteristics, furthermore, we measurement and analyze several typical antennas radiation patterns, at last we discuss the radiation characteristics of antenna on a metal plane with different distances. This study is expected to provide suggestions and references for antenna selection and installation in wireless sensor networks.