The New Standard in Antennas for Audio Wearables
Nothing kills brand trust like an audio drop-out. Our robust antennas elevate wearable Non-Line-of-Sight performance by extending range and reducing signal fade or loss. This means your audio devices can offer broader coverage and unbeaten wireless reliability. With BodyWave™ UWB antennas, your audio customers can rely on uncompressed wireless audio with linear CD-quality 16-bit 44.1 kHz sound.
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Traditional antenna - Limited wireless coverage
BodyWave™ antenna - Complete wireless coverage
Body Blocking: the Bottleneck for Wireless Wearable Audio Applications
Wireless audio wearables depend on the reliability of the connection between the audio output and the receiving device. However, the human body is a challenging platform for any wireless technology, reducing communication ranges and introducing dropouts.
Conventional workarounds mean compromises: pricier setups, hungrier batteries, or throttled data. None conquer the real enemy—body blocking.
BodyWave™: Uncompromised Wireless Audio Performance
As the only custom-engineered antenna for minimizing signal loss in wearables, BodyWave™ delivers high radiation efficiency, detuning immunity, and our unique BodyWave™ propagation.
BodyWave™ antenna technology overcomes body blocking and other key challenges in wireless wearable audio:
- Audio quality
- Battery life limitations
- Range throttling
BodyWave™ Use Case: Hi-Resolution Low Latency Ultra-Wideband Wireless Audio
UWB has the potential to offer linear CD quality, 16-bit 44.1 kHz uncompressed wireless audio. It offers low latency of under 5 milliseconds end-to-end and low power—but dropouts from body blocking and detuning make UWB challenging for body-worn audio applications.
BodyWave™ antennas overcome the reliability barrier, delivering 10-20 db increased link budget for repeatable Non-Line-of-Sight wireless performance and glitch-free ranges of up to 15 meters.
BodyWave™ Use Case: Professional Audio and Live Performance
Live performance environments rely on robust, real-time audio connections. However, roaming artists and noisy RF environments make live performance challenging for wireless wearables.
By delivering 10-20db increased link budget in Non-Line-of-Sight, BodyWave™ antennas maintain coverage in directions normally obscured by the body. In live performance environments this means:
- An extended communication range, meaning freedom for the wearer to move without dropouts
- Wireless performance with no compromises on latency or power consumption
BodyWave™ Use Case: Consumer Audio and Gaming
By delivering an increased link budget of 10-20 dB in Non-Line-of-Sight applications, BodyWave™ antennas boost the wireless experience for consumer audio:
- Earbuds and headphones that stay connected to a cellphone even when carried in the back pocket
- Reliable, low-latency gaming headsets without no trade-offs in power consumption or audio quality
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Over two decades of antenna research and propagation on difficult platforms, backed by world-class testing facilities, de-risks your projects and helps you launch products with superior wireless performance.