The Global Cellular IoT Antenna Market 1st Edition

The Global Cellular IoT Antenna Market 1st Edition

The Global Cellular IoT Antenna Market analyses the latest trendsand developments on the IoT antenna market covering 26 antennavendors. This strategic research report from Berg Insight providesyou with 60 pages of unique business intelligence including 5-yearindustry forecasts and expert commentary on which to base yourbusiness decisions.

The Global Cellular IoT Antenna Market 1st Edition

An antenna is a type of component required by any wireless device to convert electric currentinto electromagnetic waves and vice versa. Even though an antenna is a conceptually basicpassive component, there are many challenges associated with the implementation of antennas.Major smartphone OEMs have teams of hundreds of engineers that design custom antennas fortheir devices. In contrast, cellular IoT device makers do not have the resources or scale neededto design antennas in-house and rely on specialised antenna vendors that provide off-the-shelfantennas, as well as custom antenna design services.

Antenna selection and implementation are important steps in the design of any cellular IoTdevice, as the antenna largely dictates how well a device performs wirelessly. There are a rangeof antenna types to choose from when deciding on what kind of antenna to use. The mostimportant factors to consider are size, cost and performance. Cellular IoT antennas can bebroadly divided into internal and external antennas. Internal antennas are embedded within thecomponent enclosure of a device and either integrated directly on the PCB or connected to thePCB via a cable, while external antennas are typically designed to be plug-and-play solutions,mounted externally on a device or other location.

Berg Insight estimates that annual shipments of cellular IoT antennas, including internal andexternal antennas, amounted to 598 million units in 2023. Until 2028, cellular IoT antennashipments are forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.9 percent toreach 1.2 billion at the end of the period.

The cellular IoT antenna market is served by a multitude of players of different sizes, with diverseportfolio strategies and varying degrees of specialisation when it comes to antennas. Animportant category is the major diversified electronic component manufacturers such as TEConnectivity, Kyocera and Amphenol. Taoglas is one of the leading pure-play IoT antennavendors in North America and Europe. Sunnyway Technologies is the market leader in Chinaand is active across all main segments. Other key antenna providers that are active in more thanone segment are discoverIE (operating through the brands 2J Antennas and Antenova), PulseElectronics and Quectel. Antenna providers that primarily focus on the internal antenna segmentinclude Ignion, Abracon, Ezurio, Unictron and Walsin Technology Corporation. The externalantenna market is fragmented, with few vendors having substantial presence in more than oneregion. Berg Insight ranks Panorama Antennas, Parsec Technologies and PCTEL (acquired byAmphenol in December 2023) as the market leaders. Other major external antenna providersinclude Amphenol Procom, Poynting Antennas, Huber+Suhner and Airgain.