Precise tracking and monitoring is enabled by robust, reliable wireless connectivity, however industrial environments often compromise wireless performance.
AntennaWare's patented antenna technology optimises the wireless performance by addressing the key performance challenges experienced in complex RF environments. Delivering more complete omni-directional wireless links, 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
AntennaWare antenna solutions - Complete wireless coverage even when placed on challenging platforms
Accurate monitoring and tracking of assets, machinery, and personnel, relies 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 drop-outs - particularly in congested RF environments or when there is no direct line of sight between device and receiver.
While conventional solutions exist, each solution introduces drawbacks such as increased cost, power consumption, or lower data rates - while failing to address the fundamental issue of signal blocking and droputs. This ultimately means that the remote device performance can be marginal, and sensitive to how they are positioned and deployed, resulting in a requirement for extra wireless infrastructure to achieve a wireless connection.
As the only antennas specifically designed for challenging platforms, BodyWave™ delivers increased radiation efficiency, increased detuning immunity plus our unique BodyWave™ propagation to provide optimal wireless coverage.
In addressing the issues of signal blocking and detuning, our antennas address the key challenges for wireless technology in complex RF environments:
Robust wireless connections are critical for accurate, real-time monitoring of workers for safety and security - including precise location tracking, health status and vital signs monitoring, and alert systems. However, proximity to the body of the wearable, congested RF environments, and challenging industrial locations such as underground or metal-rich environments compromise wireless performance.
For personnel monitoring and tracking systems, addressing the challenges of body blocking and detuning, and delivering 10-20dB increased link budget in non-line of sight conditions, achieves:
The ability to reliably track in real-time to sub-meter accuracy opens up use cases such as driverless vehicles, safety and security uses, in addition to precise, scalable resource optimisation and operational efficiency. However, dynamic movement and placement on metal platforms will compromise the wireless link.
AntennaWare's antenna technology is specifically designed to address the challenges of detuning and signal blocking. For real-time asset tracking in industrial environments this results in:
Smart sensors rely on robust wireless connectivity to ensure critical machine health information is captured and analysed in real-time, preventing downtime, optimising maintenance schedules leading to cost and time efficiencies.
However, placement on metal can significantly compromise wireless performance. Workarounds include restricted placement of sensors and use of fragile monopole antennas. With a lower-profile, more mechanically robust solution, AntennaWare's antenna technology offers:
Realising the potential ROI from Smart Factories and Industry 4.0 investments relies on real-time, accurate collection and analysis of large volumes of data from machines, systems, and personnel. Consistent, reliable data flow is essential for real-time decision-making, process optimisation, and adaptive manufacturing.
In these challenging environments, the additional non-line of sight link budget, radiation efficiency and increased detuning immunity of AntennaWare's antenna technology delivers:
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