Adant Technologies

Adant Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of adaptive wireless systems using its beamshaping antenna technology to provide wireless services to WiFi, 4G, 5G, IoT, RFId and other RF devices. The company's technology is used in wireless devices and the company has partnerships with original equipment manufacturers and chipset makers. The company provides smart configurable antenna solutions that can be integrated in mobile handsets, notebooks, and access points for connectivity. Adant Technologies was founded in 2010 by Carlo Guardiani and Daniele Piazza.

Adant's antenna technology combines antenna hardware that electrically reconfigure the beam's pattern and polarization with a software algorithm that the company says can select the optimal radiation configuration in a few milliseconds, giving the antenna systems the possibility of choosing from several thousand possible combinations. These are intended to strengthen the wireless signal strength and performance. These solutions have been implemented in Wi-Fi 2.4 and 5 GHz and 4G and 5G bands. The company says its antenna systems also offer features such as location, motion detection, and cybersecurity.

Adant Technologies offers ranges of pre-built internal and external beamsteering and static antennas intended to fit any type of access point, access gateway, IoT, or dongle device. These antennas are built to provide solutions for WLAN, Cellular/LTE, Blutetooth, and RFId bands and are offered in single, dual, tri-band, and concurrent radio. These off-the-shelf solutions include Adant Technologies' STAR line of products, SECT line of products, and SMART line of products. As well, Adant offers custom designing and developing services for customers for whom the off-the-shelf antenna systems do not provide the form or fit for their needs.

Adant Technologies also offers software solutions for the company's antenna technology in order to offer accurate location systems, motion detection solutions, and what the company calls a complete platform for IoT developers and system integrators.

Examples of how Adant's RF motion technology works.

Adant Technology offers antenna technology for RF-based motion detection. The company's solutions do not use sensors based on light or heat, but rather uses Wi-Fi and wireless radio frequency signals to detect motion in an environment. When one or more inter-communicating radios are present in an environment, the space is filled with electromagnetic waves that are held at equilibrium that is affected by moving bodies. This is because the bodies absorb, reflect, and refract the electromagnetic waves. For the system to work, an environment needs a single Adant Technologies node in a space with the integrated motion detection; drivers can be loaded onto any Wi-Fi device to control the smart antenna, and the software then works to interpret the signals and understand any movement in a space.

Example of Adant's location technology.

Adant also offers location capabilities through their antenna technology, which the company says enables deep-sub-meter location capabilities for both Wi-Fi and BLE-based IoT gateways. The company's system uses multi-path and deep fading systems that send a signal multiple times around surrounding walls and obstacles to understand the location of a receiver. They utilize different radiation patterns to improve the time of arrival estimation.

Crowd monitoring and assisting was originally offered to help with monitoring and alerting during the COVID-19 pandemic. This feature includes real-time measurements of volumes of people, the ability to set limits for an area or zone and to monitor said area for increases or decreases in real time, and alerts and notifications when those limits are approached and exceeded. The company says the solution aligns with EU privacy and GDPR requirements and works with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to measure, monitor, predict, alert, and notify for the potential of gatherings in venues or outdoor locations.