MatSing peerless tech shot in arm for venues

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Carlos Hernandez always wears a smile on his face. He is in a key position with Matsing, US, and his world revolves around Sign R, Cone of Silence and lens technology enabled.

Carlos Hernandez is a Senior Director of Key Accounts at Matsing and has had significant impact assisting the company to 3X+ growth in the North American Wireless Carrier space over the past two-plus years.

In an exclusive converse with ‘Coliseum’, Carlos Hernandez, Director of Key Account, MatSing, US, narrates how MatSing’s lens technology enabled is based around the technology of the eye and this tech helps the different venues and stadiums increase or improve their fan experiences – “When we all go to a game or do some tailgating our antennas are proven to enhance the fan engagement.”
 

MatSing

Founded in 2005, Irvine (US)-based MatSing has developed and patented new meta-materials to create the world’s first lightweight and multibeam lens antennas. This new approach for high-performance, high-capacity antenna design is more efficient and offers key advantages over dish and array antennas, the ability to provide broadband coverage, emit and maintain multiple beams, and to do so cleanly with minimal radio frequency (RF) interference.

Commented Carlos Hernandez, “Matsing is a company founded in 2006 in Singapore. We created this new technology which allowed us to create these new types of antennas – antennas used for different types of applications. Actually, a brand-new way of making an antenna from the traditional ones. Our antennas work like your eye. It receives signal from multiple different directions. Just like your eye can receive light and uses a lens we use a lens to receive electromagnetic waves for directions. The key advantage of this type of technology, of course, is that we are putting many different types of antennas but you can use a single antenna to create different beams from a single location.”

“Almost 18 years later we are here in the United States and utilize it primarily in the stadiums as well as for the large events. The infrastructure that supports that is actually developed 15-20 years back. So, we definitely need a new type of infrastructure and a new type of antenna to solve these types of issues. With our technology since we can use one antenna to make many different sectors and beams from a single antenna it allows only to put several antennas, several locations and quickly provide the capacity needed.”
 

Cone of Silence

Added Hernandez, “So, in order for me to really explain what our antennas do I will have to take you back a little bit. I am going to take you back to pre-1990. The most important thing I want to point out is that everybody on the block listen to music on those speakers over there. One DJ for the whole block. Now, time and on and we became more isolated as a society – Internet, 24-hour cable and whatever may be. When we go to a designer stadium we like to break the stadium into several sectors and zones and really what we need is something like this – the Cone of Silence. We need to create a Cone of Silence in every sector or every zone of the stadium so that the bleed over does not happen. The bleed over from the near sector or from the other sectors what we call interference or noise and the actual signal that we want to send to your sector is what we call signal. So, what MatSing really does great is that we have up to 48 beams that come from one antenna so we can put up an antenna and shoot 48 Cones of Silence – 48 sectors, 48 zones from one single point of presence and that is where the benefit happens.”
 

Why MatSing?

“So, why do people choose MatSing? When we use those 42 beams or 48 beams in one antenna we do it with the best beam-to- beam isolation in the industry. Like I said we want to isolate the Cone of Silence, the noises that are coming in. So, the beam-to-beam isolation gives you really good buzz words, provide you with a high signal to noise ratio. Signal meaning the signal we want, noise meaning the noise we don’t want. When we do that we are able to deliver what we call Sign R – signal to noise ratio and that means when you have a good Sign R you have a good throughput. If you don’t have good Sign R you don’t have a good throughput.”
 

Sum-up

Concluded Carlos Hernandez, “In summary, we are in 60 percent of the National Football League (NFL) venues, we are in 50 percent of the National Basketball Association (NBA) venues and 33 percent of National Hockey League (NHL) venues today because of the beam-to-beam isolation, Sign R and high throughputs.”

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