Recently at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani (News - Alert) had a chance to sit down with Ronan Quinlan, managing director from Taoglas Limited for an interview.

So naturally, the first thing he wanted to know was, where'd you get that name?

Quinlan said he came up with it himself to symbolize the cross-cultural nature of the company - "I'm an Irishman but I moved to Taiwan twelve years ago."

The company is an M2M antenna provider, for the machine to machine telematics market.

The company doesn't do antennas for mobile phones or that kind of thing, Quinlan said, but higher-end stuff for "specific market needs," such as biometric devices, or in smart meters, or for "very reliable transmission systems" in general.

Quinlan showed Tehrani some of the antennas they make, such as an external one for oil rigs or smart meter systems on a house, about the size of a small dinner plate with a rounded back.

 The antenna comes with cables attached for GPS and other communications technology - "This is for customers who might need it in the desert or the Arctic, it has to be extremely robust," Quinlan noted.

In addition, Quinlan showed off a GPS patch antenna for cars, about as big as a square poker chip. It's a tracking device which can be put in the engine or trunk of a car - "We don't need external antennas anymore," so thieves won't know the car has a tracking device on it.

Quinlan noted that "Moore's Law doesn't work in the antenna business." In the sense of the passive technology anyway - what does improve is the active technology, he said. The chips in the antennas do improve. He said that many customers do want smaller devices, but they should probably understand that with a smaller antenna, "performance will decrease."

Check out the video in full below.

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Edited by Stefania Viscusi