Next Wireless InSite release adds time-based mobility, lunar modeling, and wideband ray-tracing features.
Remcom has released Wireless InSite 4.0, an update to its 3D wireless-prediction software that adds time-based mobility, lunar propagation modeling, and wideband ray-tracing with S-parameter outputs. Building on more than 25 years of development, the new version extends modeling capabilities for dynamic RF environments, including on-body propagation and scenarios relevant to NASA’s Artemis missions.
Wireless InSite 4.0 adds a mobility framework for modeling the movement of transceivers and objects in user-defined scenes. The update allows analysis of scenarios where antennas are mounted on moving scatterers such as vehicles or people, enabling more accurate assessment of how motion affects channel conditions. Time-based outputs, available as plots or animations, show changes in multipath, fading, received power, SINR, and data throughput over time. A new Results Browser and Viewer offer access to multiple results and time-sequenced visualization to support the analysis of dynamic RF environments.
To support NASA’s Artemis mission, Wireless InSite ensures accurate simulation of RF propagation on the Moon by providing the ability to import LRO LOLA terrain datasets and accurately transform the coordinates of RF mobile systems upon the lunar terrain, while also incorporating a lunar materials database. By capturing the reflection and refraction characteristics inherent to the Moon’s landscape, these capabilities are essential for future lunar missions.
Utilizing full-wave Huygens antennas, Wireless InSite 4.0 also leverages data generated by Remcom’s XFdtd full-wave 3D electromagnetic solver to capture interactions with people, vehicles, and structures in the near-field of the antenna with high fidelity. The seamless transfer into Wireless InSite preserves the precise physical relationship between the antenna, geometry, materials and near-field data. Additionally, support for refraction into volumetric materials further refines the simulation of complex electromagnetic interactions with the body or nearby structures for technologies such as 6G, GNSS, WLAN, lunar missions, and on-body communication while in motion.
Wireless InSite 4.0 supports the creation of multi-technology scenarios and frequency-dependent analysis. The updated wideband ray-tracing feature includes a waveform library and enables S-parameter output, offering detailed insights into antenna behavior and material interactions. Support for multi-frequency antennas and materials helps maintain simulation accuracy while improving computational efficiency.
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