The Deterministic Wireless Layer for Real-Time Industrial Systems
Industrial systems are becoming more autonomous, distributed, and time-sensitive. Yet the wireless links connecting them remain constrained by variable latency, network contention, and infrastructure complexity. LE-UWB™ introduces a purpose-built wireless architecture for precise timing, responsive data exchange, and energy-efficient coordination at the machine edge.
Where Conventional Wireless Falls Short
Real-Time Industrial Systems Are Demanding More from Wireless
Industrial devices require high data throughput, ultra-low latency, ultra-low power consumption, and deterministic performance from a single wireless link. Conventional technologies typically optimizeone requirement at the expense of another, forcing system designers to compromise across performance, efficiency, and reliability.
Complex RF Environments
Metal structures, moving equipment, multipath reflections, dense machinery, and overlapping wireless systems create constantly changing RF conditions. These effects can increase packet loss, latency variation, and synchronization errors, making conventional wireless behavior less predictable in industrial applications.
Latency and Synchronization Instability
BLE, Zigbee, and similar low-power protocols are well suited for periodic sensing and non-time-critical updates. However, contention, retransmissions, and variable scheduling can introduce unpredictable delays and synchronization errors. While this behaviour may be acceptable for environmental monitoring, it can limit applications such as robotics, coordinated sensing, positioning, and control that depend on consistent response times.
Infrastructure and Integration Overhead
Advanced wireless infrastructures can require significant upfront investment, dedicated network equipment, complex system integration, and higher energy consumption. For short-range communication between machines, sensors, tools, and battery-powered devices, this level of infrastructure can add cost and complexity beyond what the application requires.
LE-UWB™ ACROSS INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Industrial Wireless Performance Without Infrastructure Complexity
LE-UWB™ provides a purpose-built short-range wireless link for deterministic communication in demanding industrial environments. It enables machines, tools, sensors, and tags to exchange time-sensitive data with ultra-low latency, high throughput, and ultra-low power consumption—without the infrastructure investment, integration complexity, and energy demands of private cellular networks.
Mobile Robotics and Automation
Mobile robots and automated equipment depend on wireless communication that remains responsive as they move, coordinate, and react in real time. LE-UWB™ delivers deterministic packet timing, ultra-low latency, high data throughput, and resilient operation in complex RF environments—enabling reliable command, control, and sensor-data exchange without the constraints of wired connections or network-scale infrastructure.
Individual and Asset Tracking
Industrial applications require reliable presence and proximity awareness for people, tools, materials, and valuable assets without compromising battery life. LE-UWB™ combines ultra-low-power beaconing, configurable detection range, and precise Time-of-Flight distance measurement to deliver advanced presence and ranging capabilities with exceptionally low energy consumption.
Wireless Sensors
Industrial sensing increasingly depends on data from rotating, mobile, sealed, and difficult-to-wire equipment. One key use case is condition monitoring, where vibration, temperature, and machine-state data must be captured and transmitted reliably to identify performance changes and potential failures. LE-UWB™ enables this data to be delivered with deterministic timing, ultra-low latency, and ultra-low power consumption—without the cost and constraints of cabling.
Defense and Mission-Critical Communication
Mission-critical applications require wireless communication that remains predictable, responsive, and dependable under demanding conditions. SPARK delivers a purpose-built short-range wireless solution that reduces communication uncertainty, simplifies system design, and maintains consistent performance where conventional technologies can fall short. Its low-duty-cycle, wide band transmissions can also reduce the signal’s exposure over time, making communications more difficult to detect or intercept than continuously active narrowband links.
Start evaluating in days, not months
The SR1120 EVK provides everything needed to bring a working LE-UWB™ wireless link to life before committing to a custom layout. The kit combines the SR1120 transceiver with SPARK’s SDK, Datalink software interface, and application firmware examples, giving engineering teams a direct path from first power-on to a characterized wireless proof of concept.
Products
SR1120, LE-UWB™ transceiver.
The SR1120 provides a single, configurable LE-UWB™ platform for the industrial applications featured on this page. Its flexible physical layer, dynamic PHY scaling, and antenna diversity support allow designers to tune latency, throughput, range, and power consumption to each application—without changing the underlying transceiver as system requirements evolve.