Easy design of IoT devices with embedded antennas

Workshop

Design your own IoT wireless platform with an embedded antenna using the latest Virtual

Antenna™ technology and related design tools. Go wireless in 3 easy steps by joining Fractus Antennas'

workshop and get it completed in one day. Design, build and test your embedded antenna prototype for

an IoT platform. Discover and experience the latest chip antenna technology that will make your design

faster, cheaper and easier.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Part I: Why IoT devices need internal antennas? (1h 45min)

Making design for IoT devices fast, cheap and easy. Go from external to internal in one day.

How chip antennas change the deal nowadays. Virtual Antenna™ in real life.

o MangOH Yellow by Sierra Wireless: The super sensor for Cellular IoT

o Thingy:91 by Nordic Semiconductor: The prototyping cellular IoT platform with

tunable antenna.

The IoT antenna. Always the first to think about.

How to integrate the antenna to get the best results. Easy with Virtual Antenna™

o Antenna design for IoT in 3 easy steps: place, match, test.

o Why is this possible? Virtual Antenna™ technology for an easy IoT design.

Part II: Designing real IoT examples with National Instruments-AWR Microwave Office

Software (2h 30min)

Adapt a chip antenna to your own IoT device in a jiffy: matching Virtual Antenna with NI

AWR Design Environment (Microwave Office) and its Network Synthesis Wizard.

Designing your IoT device with embedded antenna using: MangOH Yellow and Thingy:91as

a starting prototyping platform

o Design a single-band NB-IoT sensor platform with embedded antenna.

o Design a multiband smart tracking IoT platform with embedded antenna.

o Design a multiband smart metering IoT platform with embedded antenna.

o Design a global IoT sensor platform with a tunable matching network with an

embedded antenna.

Part III: Hardware Part – Design, Implementation and Measurement with the R&S Vector

Network Analyzer (2h)

Build your own NB-IoT sensor platform with embedded antenna

In-situ hands-on work starting from scratch: design, implement and test your IoT module.

Last year´s Workshop Edition

Our training lab with the attendees to the NN Easy Antenna Design for IoT/Mobile Workshop in Barcelona

Using NI AWR Design Environment Microwave Office Software along with the Rohde & Schwarz Network

Vector Analyzers to engineer, mount and test a real Virtual Antenna™ design.

"Virtual AntennaTM Technology workshop was useful and easy, I can now make my design at home"

Senior RF Engineer at Sunway Communication, last year´s attendee.