Joe Jesson is Xact Technology’s CTO. He has worked on developing the XactTrax technology for many years making sure the technology meets the highest market standard for performance, accuracy and efficiency. Joe Jesson told us about the product, “XactTrax is a personal and OEM tracking platform that can be employed as a compact, high-quality telematics unit. It is a small system that’s GSM, GPRS-based with GPS so; fundamentally, it’s a tracking device. It was originally designed to support multiple verticals from personal tracking to commercial and enterprise applications. It’s perfect for asset monitoring and is reusable in thousands of applications.” The design incorporates a great deal of expansion capability so it can work perfectly as a stand alone device or as the core of a customized solution.

“For this device we needed a high performance and highly sensitivity multiband band cellular antenna that would fit into the credit card sized device that we have. I didn’t want to use an antenna with unreliable connectors, I needed to embed the antenna right on a PCB and I needed better performance than you’d typically get from any ceramic loaded antenna in the market place.”

Jesson selected the PA-25a for his product. “We liked the idea that it was ceramic loaded because it helps miniaturize the size of the antenna.

Dermot O’Shea, Director of Taoglas, agreed that the PA-25a is a very unique antenna. “This antenna is the result of years of intensive research and development into high-grade ceramic formulas and getting lower cellular bands designed into small form factors – no other SMT antenna can match the PA-25a for the combination of size, durability, frequency range and efficiencies of over 50% on all bands. It’s been used in the field now in many different circumstances and the reports always come back positive.”