Airgain has been designing and evaluating wireless antenna solutions for 802.11-based wireless LAN devices since our inception in 2004. The company has gained a significant level of expertise in the testing and evaluation of wireless systems to determine relative performance differences between devices, and has developed a proprietary set of performance metrics, measurement methodologies, and test conditions to enable measuring and predicting the relative performance of 802.11 wireless LAN devices and networks at the component and application level.
Antenna Engineering & Integration Process
Based on this extensive background in wireless performance, Airgain has developed a well defined set of antenna engineering and integration steps to find the optimum antenna solution within any design constraints.
- Define antennas and placement within enclosure
- Refine antenna design, placement, tuning, and patterns as ID evolves
- Feedback with customer design team at multiple levels throughout project
- Unique performance feedback loop based on repeatable OTA testing
This continuous feedback process allows us to produce the optimal antenna system design for any device, leading to better wireless performance for devices with Airgain inside.
Introducing AirMetricTM – the Industry’s First Predictive Antenna Performance Modeling Solution
Until now it has not been possible to predict end user Wi-Fi performance, even though it is a critically important throughput measurement indicator. AirMetric allows antenna and system designers to explore the space of system performance based on antenna design parameters by providing “figures of merit” assigned to each antenna design, identifying the highest performance antenna systems. This provides manufacturers with:
- A larger number of antenna systems to be analyzed and evaluated
- Assessment of changes to system characteristics such as ID, heat sink, device size, etc.
- Significant cost and time savings in product development process
Using AirMetric, device makers can now concurrently optimize design tradeoffs, time to market, and production costs while ensuring peak performance of final devices.