Smart Antenna

In order to minimize the wasted energy and traffic collisions in transmission of signals what can be improvised is the use another type of antenna called “smart antenna”. These antennas can use select able radiation patterns depending on the situation and thus drastically minimize the unnecessary energy waste. Smart antennas also provide the ability to sense the direction of incoming signals which is favorable for physical layout mapping such as orientation. Research now a days is focusing on the prototyping of a new type of smart antenna called the SPIDA smart antenna. This antenna is used to produce smart antenna designed for the 2.4 GHz frequency band. The SPIDA smart antenna can use sixty-four different signal patterns with the control of six separate directional modes, amidst these patterns are six single direction patterns, a unidirectional signal pattern and fifty-six directional patterns.