MARS (Metirionic Advanced Ranging Stack) for RTLS

Metirionic Advanced Ranging Stack

MARS

Ensure the most reliable wireless measurement – For your end-application
Seamless tailored integration – Into any communication stack and networking layer
Optimized memory consumption – Flexible Layer Architecture
The most reliable performance – Existing industrial use cases and integrations with main players

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End-to-End fully modular Middleware

Select only those SW modules that are needed to the final application (point-to-point, Bluetooth ranging, UWB, point-to-multipoint tracking …)
Fine tune parameters per module (fully configurable)
Licensed customized stack

Smart partitioning architecture

Tailored integration with any protocol network layer (compliant with given latency, limited data transfering time, …)
Clever structuring layers, running on Embedded and/or Cloud, tailored to the HW System capabilities

Optimized KPIs customized to the end-application

Highest Safety standards in complex environments
Accuracy and/or ranging improvement
Reduce infrastructure and Facilitate scalability

Our demonstration hardware platforms for evaluation purposes

Demo kits available

MARS Demo Kit DMK-215 is a plug-and-play kit that follows a specific configuration, based on Microchip AT86RF215.

It allows to gain experience with MARS, test wireless distance measurement and angle measurements.

MARS is transferable to other communication stacks (Bluetooth® LE and UWB) and allows easy integration with other platforms.

For more information of our evaluation kits:

MARS Demo Kit DMK-215

Metirionic holds a pool of patents that allow to provide superior wireless measuring of distance and angles for RTLS. Ranging Modules target different applications based on point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and radar techniques.

Direct ranging versus TDOA or GPS Mode

While direct ranging allows for simpler calculations and therefore is extensively used where there are no infrastructure devices, TDOA allows an unlimited number of tags in an observation area.
There has been a notable shift from non-IoT devices to IoT devices over the last decade. In fact, by 2030, 75% of all devices are forecast to be IoT.
Most RTLS applications nowadays will benefit from using TDOA and/or Indirect ranging because it suits better the scenarios with increasing number of tags.

Standard (Bluetooth) AoA versus Metirionic AoA

High precision position technology is helping many industry sectors, from intelligent manufacturing like automobile assembly or electronics to improve warehousing order and material flow efficiency.
The Bluetooth specification enhances location services with AoA direction finding feature, which makes possible to detect the direction of a Bluetooth signal feature and improve accuracy.
Metirionic approach extends AoA feature by adding the distance information. This new approach impacts directly in reducing infrastructure, since a single base station on the ceiling is enough to position tags below it. It also optimizes the channel usage since distance and angle are captured in a single measurement.

Ranging Technology

MARS

What is MARS

Demo kits available

Ranging Modules