Antennaware

Market Segment: automotive, consumer, industrial and mobile

Built on over 20 years of global research in wearable antenna design and body-centric EM propagation by
co-founders Dr Gareth Conway and Dr Matthew Magill, AntennaWare are innovators in antenna technology designed specifically to solve the connectivity challenges experienced on difficult platforms. They have developed an antenna technology which is agnostic to the platform, which can be placed in the center of PCBs with no shaped radiating keep-out areas, close to metal and mounted on difficult conductive and lossy platforms such as the human body.

Antennas placed on conductive materials such as metal, over PCB’s ground planes, can suffer huge performance degradation. The human body is one of the most challenging environments for wireless devices due to the significantly reduced performance quality caused by issues relating to detuning and reduced coverage caused by body blocking. And although other solutions try to mitigate against these problems, each solution introduces compromises including, increased transmission power, increased receiving infrastructure, increased BoM costs or increased power consumption.

AntennaWare’s BodyWave™ antennas solve this problem by generating waves that flow efficiently around the conductive body supporting a communication link even when the body is blocking the signal. Resulting in unprecedented predictable and stable performance at frequencies including 1.9GH, 2.4GHz and UWB and achieving a disruptive step-change of 10-20dB improvement in link budget in Non-Line-of-Sight applications compared to alternative antennas.

With a senior management team with over two decades of experience in research in antennas and propagation on difficult platforms, and access to world-class antenna testing facilities, the team at AntennaWare work closely with partners to help derisk projects and ensure products are brought to market faster.