Emerging Technologies in TELECOM

Growth encourages more growth. This has been the typical phenomenon for telecom industry. Recently I came across few of the emerging technologies which I thought to share with all.

Wireless charging is one such technology. It is being said that companies like Samsung and HTC have already started using this feature in their handsets. This wireless charging includes two charging units-the transfer unit and the receiving unit. The transferring unit uses non-radiative magnetic field to get charged and charge the transfer to the receiving unit. However the distance of this kind of power transmission is limited and some amount of energy is even lost during transmission.

Augmented Reality is to enhance the computer generated sensory inputs by sound and graphics. It can add value to the reality by adding details and presenting those details to the end customer. It had a market size of 2 million dollars in 2010 and is expected to reach 2 billion dollars by 2015.It can be particularly very helpful for the medical field and space field.

Dash 7 is an emerging Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) designed for security and asset monitoring applications. DASH7 is an open source wireless sensor networking standard for wireless sensor networking which operates in the 433 MHz unlicensed ISM band. DASH7 provides multi-year battery life, range of up to 2 Km, indoor location with 1 meter accuracy, low latency for connecting with moving things, a very small open source protocol stack, AES 128-bit public key encryption support and data transfer of up to 200 Kbit/second. It can penetrate deep into water and concrete. It is a complement to Near field Communication (NFC) technology.

Location Based Services is another emerging field and is one of the largest enterprise revenue generating applications along with AR and Games. It involves finding the location of the mobile device .The various technologies used for LBS are Cell ID, Enhanced Cell ID, GPS etc. LBS could be used in:

·         Maps and Navigation like maps, routing etc

·         Tracking Services like Vehicle Tracking, Friends and family finder etc

·         Information Services like yellow pages, city guides etc

·         Application like social networking, context advertising etc

Neelima Agrawal

SITM (Class of 2013)