Antenova taps global vehicle black box market with GPS RADIONOVA RF antenna modules

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND: Antenova Ltd., the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, announced that its GPS RADIONOVA RF Antenna Modules have been selected by leading Korean Vehicle Black Box manufactures iTronics, AMON and UB1 for the global markets.

“We have seen increasing interest in our GPS RADIONOVA RF Antenna modules from vehicle ‘black box’ and other vehicle tracking device manufactures,” stated Greg McCray, CEO of Antenova.

“Many of the ‘black box’ drive recorder/tracker devices are manufactured in Korea for the Japanese and European markets. The demand for these devices is being driven by government legislation and the insurance industry for monitoring and recording driver behavior for a variety of reasons from improving driver safety to assessing collision liability, reducing fraudulent claims and enabling pay-as-you-drive (PAYD)/usage based insurance schemes. Our GPS RF Antenna Modules provide the high accuracy and reliable location information, which is essential for these applications, in a small, compact and simple to integrate module.”

Antenova’s GPS RADIONOVA range of RF Antenna Modules comes in space saving, low profile form factors which include market leading GPS receiver ICs from CSR/SiRF and u-blox. The M10382 is a surface mount GPS Radio Antenna Module incorporating the u-blox 6 GPS chipset with Antenova’s high performing GPS antenna, which also utilizes the latest Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) technology, in a small 24.2 x 9.9 x 3.8mm3 module.

The M10372 GPS RADIONOVA is a planar mount GPS Radio Antenna Module incorporating CSR’s market leading SiRFstarIV GPS chipset with Antenova’s high performing patented antenna technology in a compact 28 x 13 x 5mm3 module. All GPS RADIONOVA RF Antenna Modules include all RF front-end and receiver components with Antenova’s GPS antenna, which are optimized to provide high efficiency, robust and reliable performance.

Antenova’s GPS antennas are omni-directional and provide good performance regardless of the device orientation.