Looking ahead from 5GRAIL – Advancing railway communications and safety in public transport

Quick look – “HIPE: Human-technology interoperability and artificial emotional intelligence”

Teleste has a long history with various research projects, especially those funded by Business Finland. Currently, we are participating in a Business Finland-funded co-innovation project called Human-technology interoperability and artificial emotional intelligence (HIPE). The project focuses on the realm of human-technology interaction, aiming to leverage the power of AI and emotional intelligence to advance state-of-the-art technologies. The groundbreaking initiative has implications for various verticals.

Beware, Future Railway Mobile Communication System is almost here

Well, no worries we are more than well prepared. Teleste has been in the forefront of the development of Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) standard from very early on, since 2015 when the work with technical requirements was started in 3gpp.

Smart safety in Smart cities

Safety is essential part in almost any smart city ‘toolbox’. Safety, or should we talk about ‘smart safety’, can be comprehended as physical and psychological. When considering solutions for improving safety, the situation is ideal, when the solution can enhance both, physical and psychological safety. For example, ‘to feel safe’ is one of the basic human basic needs, which is clearly psychological. Physical safety, in turn, could be understood as a consequence of actions, which detect, prevent, or reduce the impact of accidents, crimes and even citizens’ abrupt health failures.

5G will be a game changer for all verticals

How’s that? Well, there is not complete answer yet, as we are just in the phase where foundations of this megastructure – called 5G – is being laid and even though lots of that has been specified, there is still much of work ahead. Also the commercial implementations are in early stages. However, when taking a closer look on how 5G is being specified so far and especially the three pillars of 5G; eMBB URLLC and mMTC, it is clear that it will take the whole telecommunication infrastructure (wireless and wired) into a new level, which in turn has positive impact into all verticals and end users.

The cable industry’s energy challenge and what we can do about it

Last April, SCTE-ISBE hooked up with Comcast and Liberty Global to set-up a contest aiming to address the ‘elephant in the room’, energy consumption in broadband and especially in Hybrid Fibre Cable (HFC) networks. The contest was set to collect the brightest ideas and innovations across the cable industry to overcome the problem of how to manage and optimize the energy consumption in broadband networks.

5G gaining larger footprint in public transport

The first phase of the “Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS)” study item in 3gpp, which targets to define unified mobile communication platform for the rail systems, is close to completion and it seems that there is more to come.

5G – The ultimate solution for ’all-things-mobile’?

It has been already a while, since the term 5G started to pop up here and there. It was already prior 2011, when first critics were skeptical for 5G [1]. Rather soon after that, 5G was already on the ‘sketching board’ of the 3gpp group. In September 2015, 3gpp held a conference [2] to kick off the development of 5G with the first target to put together user scenarios and requirements. The goal to finalize the standard was set to 2020, with trials starting already few years prior that.

Efficient and robust wireless infrastructure is essential for public transport

It has always been challenging to build 24/7 working and reliable, better yet customer satisfying wireless infrastructure to this mobile and ‘living organism’ called public transport. The public transport is not only about moving vehicles, which are time to time connected with stations and depots. It is also about the limited capacity of wireless infrastructure as well as challenging conditions which make it difficult to enable constantly reliable and sufficient wireless capacity for the needs of the different subsystems.