Tag Archives: 5G

We have already had 5 drone generations (not considering military drones) with the 6th in the deployment and the 7th in the making: Basic Remote Control Fixed camera, low res video recording and digital images, manual control Assisted piloting (obstacle avoidance), 2 axes gimbal camera mounting, HD recording Autopilot mode, …

In the last post I looked at very short term forecast, what is likely to happen to drones this year, 2020. Let’s now shift the horizon further down in time. Several “experts” are betting that flying cars will become part of the landscape in the next decade, 2030 onwards.  A …

In this blog I often discussed Cloud, Sensors, AI, VR, 5G, WLAN, 3D printing and the various use cases, may be never considering all of them together. Indeed, there are plenty of application areas for these technologies and the more they evolve the broader their application areas become. Having said …

In the beginning it was the Cloud. It looked like the solution to massive storage and computation, It was also a perfect support for distributed service architecture with some parts of the service run locally and some part in the Cloud. Then the fog appeared. The availability of storage and …

Interestingly digitalisation/softwarization is happening not just at product/equipment level but also at system/network level. An airplane engine (turbine) has its digital twin, creating a digital model in the cyberspace that can be used in many ways, including the provisioning of information via virtual and augmented reality to designers, maintenance crew, …

So what will happen next? I closed the (skimpy) overview of the present of telecommunications emphasising the growing role of data and AI. These are the key technologies that will transform communications in the next decades. Talking of decades, we have seen a basic cycle of ten years in wireless …

The new IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee Newsletter is out and you can read it here. It contains a number of very interesting technical articles and a short, candid,  interview I gave on the present and future of communications. Whilst the articles may need a bit of technical savvy to be …

Well, actually 5G is NOT old stuff, but it seemed a good way to catch your eye… China is starting to roll out 5G, aiming at the deployment of 130,000 base stations by the end of 2019, which might seem a lot but actually it is just scratching the surface …

Platforms as enabler of business (and services) II I just mentioned in the previous post the relevance given by industry to platforms and ecosystems. Actually, the two are connected or, better, have to be connected to match industry interest. A platform provides its services through APIs -Application Programming Interface. For …

The WiFi 6 standard, IEEE 802.11ax,  is now supplemented by the certification program (issued by the WiFi Alliance, important because it ensures interoperability of devices) and WiFi enabled devices are starting to appear on the market (iPhone 11 and Galaxy S10 have WiFi 6). What is most important is that …