Compact embedded antennas

Louise Davis

Antenna Company announced the availability of new high performance antenna technologies and systems for a wide variety of applications including both indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi, connected home, mobile computing, telematics and IoT applications.

Antenna Company’s patented SuperShape technology improves gain, efficiency, isolation, and coverage versus conventional embedded antenna designs on the market. Independent benchmark tests have shown SuperShape antennas to increase range and throughput by 50 to 100% in both line of sight and non-line of sight test conditions.

Using Antenna Company’s proprietary dielectric resonator design approach, the shape and size of the antennas can be tailored to meet custom demands of performance, system integration and cost.

For indoor Wi-Fi applications, high performance antennas provide superior radiation characteristics with greater efficiency and gain compared to conventional antennas. 

Antenna Company offers optimised dual-band and single band antenna systems for compact, embedded designs which require high levels of isolation between multiple antennas. Optimised reference designs are available for 802.11ac MIMO or Multi-User MIMO system configurations ranging from 2×2 up to 8×8, delivering gigabit wireless performance.

For outdoor Wi-Fi applications, the Antenna Company’s SuperShape directional Wi-Fi antennas enable compact, high gain, high performance antenna arrays designed for harsh outdoor conditions – while outperforming larger micro-strip array solutions. Antenna Company’s outdoor products are well-suited for wireless backhaul, high density metropolitan, and stadium deployments as well as 3G/4G network offload applications.

For Smart Home & Connected Home applications, Antenna Company has developed embedded low-loss antenna designs for integration into set top box and other connected home devices, extending the reach of streaming HD content throughout the home. Solutions for low data rate sensor applications are also available to provide connectivity for IoT devices requiring extended range, low battery life and small form factor.

Antenna Company has also developed compact designs optimised for use in laptop computers and other mobile computing devices. In addition to improvement in MIMO Wi-Fi performance, these new antenna designs can be 40% smaller than competing designs which frees up space for integration of other wireless technologies, such as LTE or 60GHz.