▲ IUPLUS / CEO Choi Du-hun

(PowerKorea) Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance, angle or velocity of objects. It used to be used for military purposes but is being used in many sectors of industry nowadays. It is received as one of the core future technologies in building smart cities as Pohang University of Science and Technology electrotechnology professor Kim Gyeong-tae says that everybody will have one’s own radar in the future. 

Established in 2011, IUPLUS is a South Korean company that boasts unrivaled technologies in the fields of communication and radar sensor. The company made its strong presence in the field by developing a smart radar sensor which wowed the industry circles. 

Radar emits electric wave to the target and receives the radio signal sent back from which it obtains the distance and the information of the target by calculating the time. In this radar sensing, analogue technology is very important. If the digital technology processes and analyzes the signals to make it into the desired purpose, analogue technology is must needed for reducing or extending the distance. IUPLUS is excellent in this regard as it boasts these original analogue technologies. 

The company’s RTS (Radar Test System), in particular, can measure performance of various radars from tens of meters to hundreds of meters through realizing virtual distance and virtual speed (Doppler effect). Radar is a device whose performance is very difficult to measure. For this reason, only a few companies in the US, Japan and Germany has obtained related technologies. In this respect, IUPLUS’ development of RTS is highly praiseworthy for 100% localization.

RTS currently is being applied to the mass production line of a golf swing machine manufacturer while completing a field test of Hyundai Mobis for applying to its production lines of radar sensor loaded vehicles performance. An official said that IUPLUS seems to be the sole company in the nation that can provide radar sensor supply and quality warranty at the same time.

Based on these accumulated technologies, IUPLUS is making and supplying various products: Vital, Radar Module, Aegis, Aegis-M, Eeydar, Level Gauge, 4G/5G Surge protector applicable to security, smart home, speed/distance measurement, vital sign monitoring, 3D radar and RTS. 

RTS especially is set to be installed in 800 substations nationwide managed by KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation). RTS detects even a delicate movement of a leaf and analyzes it with AI algorithm to prevent possible malfunction. Basically, radar has relatively less malfunction rate than heat detection-based security systems and it also scans wider areas. Because it uses radio wave, it works regardless heavy weather conditions like raining, snowing and fogging. 

“I think radar will be more closely used in our daily life in the future, Samsung is planning to load a radar sensor in new smart phone lines and the areas of application is widening fast even to beds and massage chairs. Also notable is that the commonly used PIR sensor seems to start shifting to radar sensor for it senses cardiac impulse and breathing of the resident and thus check the health status of the patient in real time. IUPLUS’ innovative smart sensors, in fact, monitor breathing of a person 5 meters apart and have excellent price competitiveness thanks to performance of the discrete circuit in 10.5GHz/24GHz band width” says Choi Du-hun, CEO of IUPLUS.

IUPLUS’ radar technologies are innovative in many terms. Using 3 radars, for example, can effectively monitor any intrusion or movement even behind the wall and also can print video images. The company’s 13 patents are the very results of these accumulated knowhow and experience of experts in the field and CEO Choi and his teams are determined to take the frontier of South Korean radar industry. 

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