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Track anything, anywhere.
A solar-powered smart logistics
tracker enabled by Virtual Antenna™
technology.
SODAQ, a Netherlands-based design house for low power
trackers and sensors, has joined the latest off-the-shelf antenna
technology revolution to provide worldwide LTE connectivity to
their latest solar-powered trackers. Ignion's ALL mXTEND
Virtual Antenna™ enables the SODAQ “TRACK Solar” with a
worldwide multiband LTE connectivity.
THE CHALLENGE
A total of 100 billion connected smart devices expected by 2050
would fill approximately 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools
with AA batteries per year without the use of energy harvesting.
SODAQ faced the challenge of creating an autonomous, more
sustainable tracker of which the battery does not need to be
replaced and can have cellular multiband connection
worldwide, in a compact form-factor whereby the small solar
panel is fitted in a 6.9 × 6.9 cm enclosure.
THE SOLUTION
Working side-by-side, Ignion supported SODAQ in the
development of a solar-powered tracker product, which covers
LTE-M frequency bands by using the versatile ALL mXTEND™
Virtual Antenna™ component. “Next to the appreciated Ignion
Antenna Intelligence Cloud, the off-the-shelf LTE antenna of Ignion
is unique. It is able to cover all the LTE required bands, in Europe
and in the United States,” Kees Hogenhout, RF Engineer, SODAQ.
During the engineering process Ignion and SODAQ managed to
achieve the highest possible ef��ciency in the smallest space for all
possible network frequencies globally, including the challenging
connection at 700MHz. On top of this, due to the versatile nature of
the Virtual Antenna™ technology, the result is an antenna
configuration that SODAQ can re-use for other projects, such as the
SODAQ AIR. Having multiple projects benefit from one optimization
exercise, gives SODAQ a more efficient development cycle and a
shorter time to market.
Low bands within
a small antenna
700
Mhz
High-performance LTE connectivity
in a small enclosure
6.9×6.9
One antenna, all projects.
Saving design time and cost
cm
A solar-powered tracker with
worldwide LTE multiband
connectivity.
“Next to the appreciated Ignion Antenna
Intelligence Cloud, the off-the-shelf LTE
antenna of Ignion is unique. It is able to
cover all the LTE required bands, in
Europe and in the United States.”
- Kees Hogenhout, RF Engineer, SODAQ
ACHIEVEMENTS
one for all