http://www.iaeme.com/IJCIET/index.asp 484 editor@iaeme.com International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2017, pp. 484–490, Article ID: IJCIET_08_10_049 Available online at http://http://www.iaeme.com/ijciet/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=8&IType=10 ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316 © IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed ANTENNA BEHAVIOUR UNDER DIFFERENT SOIL CONDITIONS T Anita Jones Mary Pushpa and D Sugumar Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India ABSTRACT: Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSN's) are experiencing an upheaval as far as its remotely associated underground sensor hubs. Dissimilar to existing techniques for observing underground conditions, which depend on buried sensors associated by means of wire to the surface, a noteworthy element of WUSN gadgets are sent totally subterranean and don't require any wired connections. WUSN's has gotten much consideration due to its applications including intelligent water system, environmental monitoring, border patrol, and assisted navigation. Every gadget contains every essential sensor, memory, a processor, a radio, an antenna and a power source. This paper is a preparatory endeavor to outline a Single Ended Elliptical Antenna (SEA) that is utilized as a part of WUSN and its execution under different soil conditions are likewise investigated. Keywords: wireless underground sensor (WUSN),soil, SEA(single ended elliptical antenna) Cite this Article: T Anita Jones Mary Pushpa and D Sugumar, Antenna Behaviour under Different Soil Conditions, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, 8(10), 2017, pp. 484–490 http://www.iaeme.com/IJCIET/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=8&IType=10 1. INTRODUCTION WSN is broadly thought to be the most essential innovation in monitoring physical or natural phenomena, for example, humidity, temperature, sound, vibration, pressure or motion and to helpfully send the information through the system of sensors to a primary location [1]. Recent discoveries in regards to WSN have prompted to the development of WUSN comprise of sensors buried underground. Antenna designs for UWB-WUSN are experiencing an insurgency in terms of soil texture, temperature and soil moisture. Different types of planar mono pole antennas have been designed for UWB application. Printed mono pole antennas are generally utilized as a part of remote wireless communication [13]. The primary favourable advantages of planar mono pole antennas are low cost, simplicity of fabrication, low profile, and small size. Shapes typically utilized for radiator of the mono pole antennas are elliptical, circular, hexagonal, square, rectangle [14]. Out of these circular [15] and