LONDON — Wireless chip design group DecaWave (Dublin, Ireland) is to collaborate with the Dublin Institute of Technology's Antenna & High Frequency Research Group (AHFR) for antenna design and research to support its ScenSor chip.

The target is to devise fully customizable antennas.

The venture is supported by Hothouse, the technology transfer office of the Dublin Institute of Technology, and will see the institute receive a percentage of the revenue generated by the antenna associated with ScenSor sales.

ScenSor is suitable for applications ranging from real-time location systems (RTLS) and wireless transceivers in manufacturing, healthcare, lighting, security, transport, inventory and supply chain management.

Led by Dr Max Ammann, the AHFR specializes in the analysis, design and measurement of RF and microwave antennas for wireless systems.

The group initially focused on ultra wideband antennas as part of Science Foundation Ireland's Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research. This has led to several commercial exploitation opportunities backed by patents and Enterprise Ireland support.

The antennas being developed for ScenSor will be" fully optimized for increased ranging and superior accuracy, but crucially they will also be fully customizable to the particular applications of client technologies," said Ciaran Connell CEO DecaWave.

The antennas to be developed will preserve the integrity of the transmitted signals, said Dr Ammann.

He added they will also have a number of other advantages, "which include low cost print manufacturing, and having a sharp pulse profile (called fidelity factor), which makes them particularly suited to ScenSor’s ranging and positioning applications."

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