UWB BodyWave™ Antennas

Designed for wearables

Our UWB BodyWave™ antennas are designed with the challenges of wearable wireless communications in mind. Increased radiation efficiency, increased detuning immunity and our unique BodyWave™ propagation combine to ensure reliable communication links even in the most challenging of environments.

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Body blocking is a persistent challenge with wireless wearables. This happens when the human body blocks the antenna's wireless transmission path, causing the signal to weaken or drop out as the radio waves are either reflected or absorbed by the body.

BodyWave™ solves this by generating waves that flow efficiently around the body, maintaining and supporting a stable communication link even when the body is blocking the direct signal path.

Compact and powerful

The BodyWave™ antenna is an On-Ground SMD antenna component optimised for wearable applications. The BodyWave™ antenna can produce BodyWaves which can help facilitate wireless communications when there is no direct line of sight with both on-body and off-body receivers.

Our BodyWave™ antenna technology is significantly better suited to wearable applications than the existing commercially available general purpose off-the-shelf antennas. BodyWave™ antennas are designed to increase coverage in directions obscured by the human body, with 10 dB – 20 dB increased link budget in those directions when compared to existing commercially available chip and printed antennas.

10-20 dB

increase in NLoS link budget

UWB BodyWave™ antennas for body-worn applications

6.25GHz - 8.25GHz UWB BodyWave™ Antenna

Part: AW-BW-6580W
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 3mm
Frequency: 6250 - 8250 MHz
Channels: UWB CH5, 6, 7, 8, 9

For UWB applications in Channels 5-9
Stable return loss
Minimal impedance detuning at different antenna-tissue separation distance
Predictable on-body radiation performance
Ease of integration
RoHs, SVHC compliant

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8GHz UWB BodyWave™ Antenna

Part: AW-BW-NN80D
Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 2mm
Frequency: 7750 - 8250 MHz
Channels: UWB CH9

For UWB applications in Channel 9
Stable return loss
Minimal impedance detuning at different antenna-tissue separation distance
Predictable on-body radiation performance
Ease of integration
RoHs, SVHC compliant

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360 degree coverage

Standard body-mounted antennas experience large nulls in the radiation pattern caused by shadowing from the human body. BodyWave™ helps reduce drop-out giving excellent range and reliability in unpredictable and dynamic applications

Compact size

A compact form factor makes BodyWave™ easily integrable into miniaturised wearable devices

Efficiency

The antenna has high radiation efficiency despite its miniature size, even in close proximity with the human body and on small ground planes

Dependability

The BodyWave™ antenna is extremely resistant to detuning caused by close human body proximity, a major issue with antennas in wearable applications which can cause unpredictable wireless performance

Power

Significantly reduced power consumption compared to high TX power amplifier solutions currently used to address body shadowing

Real-time data

BodyWave antenna technology can ensure reliable real-time data acquisition for full-story analysis and reporting

Rapid deployment

Fully compatible with existing chipsets. Our seamless integration process and product support get you up and running quickly with minimal RF expertise

Cost

Reduce materials due to single antenna system and removing the need for amplifier

Enabling the next gen of wearables

The success of AntennaWare™ has been built in partnership with our partners as we deliver solutions for more reliable devices with increasingly consistent performance.

With the reduction of detrimental Non Line-of-Sight effects, many previously impossible applications can now be realised. The increased range, reliability, and 360-degree coverage enable a wide range of applications, particularly in real-time data acquisition and wireless localisation.

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We are here to help you bring your products to market faster

Highly regarded for our seamless integration, our proven assessment to deployment process ensures excellent user experience for both product teams and the end-user.

We support customers with integration and layout recommendations.
We offer test and measurement characterisation of our customers equipment using our in-house wireless wearable testbeds to help improve their wireless performance.
We also offer matching network, transmission line, RF circuitry, etc design services for our customers products.

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