AntennaWare receives IOTE Gold Award for BodyWave™ at First Outing in Shenzhen

News 7th September 2026

Industrial IoT DECT UWB 2.4GHZ Sub-GHz

Jason ArmstrongSenior Content Marketer

BodyWave™ has received an IOTE Gold Award at IOTE 2026, the 25th International Internet of Things Exhibition, held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center from 26 to 28 August 2026.

The Gold Award recognizes innovation in IoT products and is issued by the IOTE organizing committee following a judged selection from exhibits on the show floor. Sara Dalzell, Head of Marketing, accepted it on stage on behalf of the AntennaWare team.

This was the first time AntennaWare has exhibited at IOTE. We took Booth 10D95 in Hall 10, among more than 1,000 exhibitors covering the full IoT chain from sensors and modules to platforms and applications. AntennaWare is represented in the region by Danny Cheng, China Division Sales Representative.

IOTE Gold Award Ceremony

The Technology Behind the Award

BodyWave™ delivers robust, reliable, and repeatable wireless performance on challenging platforms, like the human body. Tissue close to an antenna absorbs radiated power, shifts the resonant frequency of the antenna, and creates shadowing when the body blocks the signal path.

Propagation modes of conventional and BodyWave™ antennas

BodyWave™ works with the body rather than against it. Our SMD antenna range holds a stable impedance match on the body, maintains radiation efficiency, and propagates waves around the body’s surface rather than into it. Forward path gain measurements on a tissue-representative phantom testbed, confirmed in customer deployments, show 12 dB improvements at 1.9 GHz DECT, and 8 dB at 600MHz sub-GHz. The BodyWave™ range spans sub-GHz, 1.9 GHz DECT, 2.4 GHz BLE and ISM, and UWB.

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Applications to date include connected healthcare, sports wearables, asset and wildlife tracking, hearables and professional audio, and distributed IoT sensing.

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“Exhibiting in China for the first time and coming away with recognition from the IOTE judges tells us that the problem we work on is understood in this market. The conversations at the stand were with engineers who already know what the body does to a radio link.”

Sara Dalzell, Head of Marketing

IOTE 2026 Gold Award

A Packed Room at the Positioning Forum

Dr. Matthew Magill, AntennaWare CTO and Co-founder, presented at the High-Precision Positioning Technology Forum, one of the technical programs running alongside the exhibition. The session drew a full room, with questions continuing at the stand afterward.

Matthew’s talk set out the difficulties of on-body wireless communication, the measured performance of antennas on the body across a population, and what a design can recover by accounting for the platform from the start.

Dr. Matthew Magill presenting on stage

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Designing a device to be worn on the body? Bring the antenna into the conversation before your layout is fixed.

BodyWave™ is delivered as chip-scale antennas and reference designs that drop onto existing SoC platforms. Coverage spans sub-GHz, 1.9 GHz DECT, 2.4 GHz, and 6.5 GHz and 8 GHz UWB. Our design-in consultancy is available at Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels, covering simulation, in-phantom measurement, and tuning against your own targets.

Get in touch with us:

Danny Cheng, China Division Sales Representative
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Simon Barber - Sales & Business Development
IoT, Medical, Sports, Others
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Jonny McClintock - Commercial Director
Audio, Gaming, AR & VR
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