Remcom Wireless Insite 4.0 (2025 Version) with Tutorial Examples
Wireless InSite® is a predictive tool for understanding wireless coverage, channel multipath, and data throughput for 5G, 6G, and WiFi networks. Through advanced and accelerated 3D ray-tracing and alternative fast ray-based methods and empirical models, it efficiently and accurately predicts multipath channel characteristics in indoor, urban, and rural environments. Dynamic scenario modelling for vehicles and pedestrians captures fading over time, while frequency sweeps incorporate broadband effects. Communications analysis capabilities apply MIMO algorithms to channel predictions to estimate coverage and throughput for wireless networks.
Applications
Wireless InSite provides RF engineers with the tools to design wireless links, optimize antenna coverage, and assess key channel and signal characteristics for RF and millimeter wave frequency bands.
Features
Wireless InSite's unique collection of features simplifies the analysis of even the most complex and massive propagation problems.
X3D Propagation Model X3D is a 3D propagation model with no restrictions on geometry shape or transmitter/receiver height. This accurate model includes reflections, transmissions and diffractions along with atmospheric absorption. Supports frequencies up to 100 GHz.
Diffuse Scattering Capture effects of scattering on complex impulse response and received power (including cross-polarization) for mmWave applications.
MIMO Beamforming & Spatial Multiplexing The X3D model simulates MIMO antennas for 5G, WiFi and other technologies. Using detailed multipath, it applies MIMO techniques such as beamforming, spatial multiplexing, and diversity to predict key channel metrics for one or more MIMO data streams.
Communication Systems Analysis The Communication Systems Analyzer calculates SINR, throughput, theoretical capacity, and bit error rate (BER), giving users the tools they need to visualize and assess device performance for systems with multiple base stations.
Feature Import Support for KMZ, COLLADA, SHP, and DXF formats for building and object import. The Geospatial Abstraction Library is used for terrain import in DTED, DEM, and TIFF formats.
Antenna Modeling Import simulated antennas from
XFdtd or create textbook antennas for use in SISO, MIMO and Massive MIMO transmitter and receivers.
Materials Electrical properties of the scene can be defined down to the facet level. An installed database of materials includes metal, earth, concrete, brick, wood, glass, etc. at various frequencies.
Outputs Users have quick access to outputs such as received power, propagation paths, path loss etc. These ASCII-based files can be plotted in the tool or easily post-processed externally.
Geometry Caching Wireless InSite's X3D Propagation Model automatically caches processed geometry for later use. This avoids geometry processing time when multiple concurrent or subsequent jobs are run with the same geometry. Wireless InSite monitors cache validity and indicates when the cache is available. This feature is especially useful for scenarios with large urban or rural geometry when multiple concurrent or sequential jobs are being run.
Some Application Examples
· Throughput of a 5G New Radio FD-MIMO System in an Urban Area Using Custom Beamforming
· WiFi Performance Simulation in a House with Two Routers
· 5G mmWave Channel Modeling with Diffuse Scattering in an Office Environment
· 5G Massive MIMO Outdoor Communications Analysis
· Modeling an Ad Hoc Network with Transceivers in an Urban Setting
New Release 4.0
Wireless InSite 4.0 introduces a robust mobility framework that accurately models the movement of transceivers and objects within a user-defined scene. Mobile platforms now enable precise evaluation of dynamic scenarios where mounted antennas on scatterers like vehicles and humans affect channel conditions. Time-based outputs, rendered as plots or animations, provide detailed insights into multipath and fading, received power, SINR, and data throughput across time as RF systems and vehicle platforms move through a scene. A new Results Browser and Viewer provide multi-result access and time-sequenced visualization, allowing engineers to focus on dynamic behaviors with clarity.
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 also allows users to create a single multi-technology scenario and analyze frequency-dependent results. This enhanced wideband ray-tracing capability extends traditional methods by enabling frequency-dependent analysis and providing a waveform library. Engineers can access S-parameter outputs, providing a comprehensive view of antenna performance and EM material interactions. Multi-frequency antennas and materials ensure accurate characterization for any simulation frequency with multiple orders of magnitude in runtime savings.
“Wireless InSite 4.0 is designed for engineers and researchers who require high-precision tools to model RF systems in terrestrial, non-terrestrial and lunar environments. We recognize the challenges inherent in simulating real-world wireless scenarios, and this release reflects our commitment to delivering a simulation platform that accurately predicts system performance under dynamic conditions,” said Ruth Belmonte, product manager for Wireless InSite.
For more information about Remcom Wireless InSite 4.0 (2025 Version), please contact fast.forever24@gmail.com