Antenna Technology for Reliable Wireless Tracking and Monitoring—Even in Challenging Environments

Precise tracking and monitoring are enabled by robust, reliable wireless connectivity. However industrial environments often compromise wireless performance.

AntennaWare's patented antenna technology optimizes wireless performance by addressing the key performance challenges experienced in complex RF environments, delivering more complete omni-directional wireless links along with unbeaten wireless reliability and range for real-time data capture.

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Traditional antenna - Limited wireless coverage due to signal blocking and detuning effects

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AntennaWare antenna solutions - Complete wireless coverage even when placed on challenging platforms

Blocking and Detuning—Performance Bottlenecks for Wireless Applications on Challenging Platforms

Accurate monitoring and tracking of assets, machinery, and personnel rely on communicating critical data in real-time. However, the electrically conductive properties of platforms such as metal or biological tissue create challenges for wireless technology, reducing communication ranges and introducing dropouts. This is the case particularly in congested RF environments or when there is no direct line of sight between a device and its receiver.

While conventional solutions exist, each solution introduces drawbacks such as increased cost, power consumption, or lower data rates. All fail to address the fundamental issues of signal blocking and dropouts, meaning performance improvements are marginal. And, since devices are sensitive to how they are positioned and deployed, often there is a requirement for extra infrastructure to achieve a wireless connection.

BodyWave™—Optimized Wireless Coverage With Propagation Around the Body

As the only antenna specifically designed for challenging platforms, BodyWave™ delivers increased radiation efficiency and detuning immunity—plus our unique BodyWave™ propagation for optimal wireless coverage.

Tackling both signal blocking and detuning, our antennas address the key challenges for wireless technology in complex RF contexts:

Placement of devices on challenging platforms
Congested RF environments
Unnecessary, additional infrastructure costs

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Use Case: Worker Safety Monitoring and Tracking

Robust wireless connections are indispensable for accurate, real-time worker monitoring—including precise location tracking, health status, vital signs, and alert systems. However, body-mounted wearables, congested RF environments, and challenging industrial locations such as underground or metal-rich environments typically compromise wireless performance.

Delivering a 10-20 dB increase in the link budget in Non-Line-of-Sight conditions and addressing the challenges of body blocking and detuning achieves:

Reliable location tracking, indoors, outdoors, or underground
Improved signal level, extended range and quality
Ease of deployment
Lower infrastructure costs with fewer receivers
More efficient power consumption

Use Case: Real-Time Asset and Machinery Location Tracking

Reliable real-time tracking with sub-meter accuracy enables implementations such as driverless vehicles, safety and security applications, delivering precise, scalable resource optimization and operational efficiency. However, dynamic movement and metal mounting degrade the wireless link.

AntennaWare's antenna technology is purpose-engineered to address the challenges of detuning and signal blocking. For real-time asset tracking in industrial environments, this translates into:

Extended signal range leading to reduced infrastructure costs
Robust and reliable wireless link for critical applications such as health and safety
Efficient power consumption, extending battery life
Environmental resilience to placement of tags and receivers

Use Case: Machine Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance

Smart sensors rely on robust wireless connectivity to ensure critical machinery health information is captured and analysed in real-time, preventing downtime and optimizing maintenance schedules to boost cost and time efficiencies.

However, placement on metal can significantly compromise wireless performance. And workarounds either restrict sensor placement or use fragile monopole antennas. With Omni-Wave™ antenna technology, our lower-profile mechanically robust solution offers:

An omni-directional signal
Flexible sensor positioning
Flat antenna design, reducing breakages

Use Case: Smart Factories and Industry 4.0 Initiatives

Gaining ROI from Smart Factories and Industry 4.0 investment relies on real-time, accurate data collection and analysis from machines, systems, and personnel. Reliable data flow enables live decision-making, process optimization, and adaptive manufacturing.

In these challenging environments, the additional Non-Line-of-Sight link budget, radiation efficiency, and increased detuning immunity of AntennaWare's technology delivers:

Robust links with body-worn devices despite active motion
Flexible placement of sensors and devices
Omnidirectional signal without the maintenance associated with monopole antennas
Reduced infrastructure costs due to signal strength
Reduced power consumption

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