Taoglas, a provider of antennas and IoT components, has introduced Inception, an innovative GNSS L1/L5 ultra-low-profile “patch-in-a-patch” antenna.
The HP5354.A is the first antenna of its kind, offering dual-band stacked patch performance within a standard 35 x 35 x 4mm form factor by embedding the second antenna into the first, without stacking the parts. This new passive, dual-feed surface mount design (SMD) reduces antenna height by 50%, decreases weight, and conserves horizontal space, making it ideal for GNSS applications that require precision and accuracy in confined spaces.
The HP5354.A serves as a direct replacement for single-band surface mount patches, enhancing the IoT device’s positioning accuracy from 3 metres to 1.5 metres while maintaining dual-band L1/L5 performance. Constructed with a custom electro-ceramics formula, Taoglas’ surface mount antenna technology guarantees high-quality performance and seamless integration into devices needing high-precision GNSS.
Applications such as asset tracking, smart agriculture, industrial tracking, commercial drones, and autonomous vehicles demand greater stability, resilience, and precision. For many years, the industry has relied on single-band GPS, but emerging bands such as L2, L5, L6, and L-band provide designers with a route to clearer signals, enhanced gain, and centimetre-level accuracy. This trend is also evident in global GNSS technologies, including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, IRNSS, and SBAS.
“Taoglas has been designing and manufacturing reliable, high-performance GNSS antennas in-house for over 20 years, and we remain committed to investing in new antenna technologies,” said Dermot O’Shea, CEO at Taoglas. “We know electroceramic patches are still the most efficient way to receive circularly polarised signals, and before Inception, multi-band configurations required a stacked patch antenna, which adds to height and weight. The HP5354.A—our latest innovation—means you can move to dual band without changing the footprint, size, and height of your current single band GPS antenna.”
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