On day three of embedded world, IoT Insider sat down with Ignion’s Aitor Moreno, Cloud Product Manager, to discuss the company’s brand-new release launched at embedded world: Oxion.
Ignion, global antenna manufacturer that has sold over 30 million for Chip Antennas IoT use cases, offers a portfolio of new generation multiband, multipurpose and ready-to-use, chip antennas, and the Oxion platform is designed to give users greater control over its products.
Offering things like monitoring and analysis of antenna performance, users can take advantage of a software hardware solution approach that other off-the-shelf antennas may not provide.
Incorporating an AI-powered solution, designs can also be experimented with on the platform in terms of antenna placement on a board, and predicted outcomes in terms of connectivity are generated so that it not only simplifies but enhances the antenna integration process for developers, allowing accurate exploration to implement antenna designs that are optimised for performance and efficiency.
Speaking of the AI feature’s use, Moreno said: “We consider an antenna crucial to the first step of your design journey.” Efforts like this are intended to help shorten the design time of wireless devices and thus reduce the number of false starts or tweaking stages that can come with mass deployments.
The software support, to helping developers design the antennas online, is then extended as Ignion can act in a consultative manor if customers then want to send their prototypes to the company for validation. These protypes or test designs can then be saved to the online platform for users to then reference later to copy and tweak for antennas in similar deployments.
Speaking on why Ignion, a hardware company, decided to launch accompanying software, Moreno said: “If you want to expand the IoT Economy, you need to build a strong community behind it.”
This Ignion ethos reflects a broader industry trend where components suppliers are either moving to open source for their products, or creating an accompanying software that can easier help its end users manage the products. Ignion, although only offering a handful of antennas, believes this is what will be it’s key to continued growth.
Although AI is, like for many companies currently, a major consideration, when looking at Oxion Moreno says the mains plans to grow the platform come from the level of support they will be adding. The company has outlined a roadmap for the future developments of Oxion, which include enhanced AI capabilities and expanded support for a wider range of devices.
Ignion is hoping the Oxion platform will offer competitive edge to developers and companies involved in IoT and mobile communications as these sectors continue to expand and the demand for efficient and scalable antenna solutions grow.
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