AntennaWare awarded Best in Show for new Sub-GHz Antenna at Embedded World 2026

News 20th March 2026

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Dawn Baird

AntennaWare has been received Best in Show winner recognition from Embedded Computing Design in the wireless category for our newly released Sub-GHz BodyWave™Antenna and Omni-Wave™ antenna products at this year’s annual Embedded World exhibition and trade conference in Nuremberg, Germany. Submissions are assessed across several categories: Design Excellence, Relative Performance, and Market Impact.

The AntennaWare team enjoyed an evening celebration with the winners in each category, hosted by Embedded Computing Design.

Best in Show Award at Embedded World 2026

Sub-GHz Antenna - the first viable low profile alternative to monopole and dipole antennas

The newly released Sub-GHz antenna has been designed to offer engineers a direct drop-in, low profile alternative to monopole and dipole antennas.

The Sub-GHz antenna offers:

Monopole-class RF reliability in a truly low-profile form factor—dispensing with fragile and often aesthetically undesirable monopole and dipole antennas.

Unlike alternative low-profile antennas, the BodyWave/Omni-Wave Sub-GHz antenna maintains omni-directional radiation even when deployed on difficult and conductive platforms such as close to or on the body, or on metal.

Covers both the Europe 868 MHz SRD and North America 915 MHz unlicensed ISM frequency band.

The Sub-GHz antenna is available in two form factors:

An embedded SMT antenna—integrated into a PCB with no ground place keep out area

An external monopole replacement—designed to replace both monopole and folded dipole antennas in existing hardware, with no need for any redesign resource

For further information, see Sub-GHz BodyWave Antenna.

“This innovation is driven by market demand. Engineers have been asking for a low-profile alternative to monopole antennas, but until now the performance sacrifice has kept them returning to traditional monopoles. This new antenna launch eliminates that trade-off and we believe is the innovation many market verticals, particularly the Industrial IoT market, has been waiting for.”

Jonny McClintock, Commercial Director, AntennaWare

The short-comings of monopole antennas

The primary benefit of the Sub-GHz antenna is as a solution to replace vertical monopole antennas. Monopole antennas are well known for their omni-directional radiation characteristics, making them a go-to choice for a wide range of applications from home routers, remote control vehicles, Industrial IOT and beyond.

However, they are prone to breakage and are often aesthetically undesirable, but more importantly they require an outward position from the platform and are not suited for integration on a PCB. The AntennaWare Sub-GHz antenna offers a comparable performance with a vertical height up to 20 times smaller.