Verizon Wireless Promotional video...shown in the LTE World Summit 2011
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Smart Meters Data and Privacy
I have in the past discussed about Smart Grids and Smart meters in this post and have mentioned some of the privacy concerns. Each electrical device has its signature which could be exploited by some rogue elements to find out if there are any people in the household or itss empty. If its empty they could take advantage by breaking in the house, etc.
Finally, I would like to mention that most of the information I have seen about Smart meters actually only include Electric meters. I find it difficult to foresee how we would have smart meters for Gas, Water and Sewage and how the data can be exploited in a positive way.
Last week I heard a presentation by Onzo in a Cambridge Wireless event about Smart meters (embedded below). This was the most detailed presentation I saw that explained how this data from the smart meters
If you browse the slides you will notice that the device signatures can be used to pinpoint the type of device and in most cases also the make and model of the device. It can even point out if a device is malfunctioning or about to breakdown. The customers can get a detailed summary of the main appliances in the house and how much electricity they consume and this would be without any physical intervention in the electrical circuit in the place.
I am sure that are many positive uses of this data and can be used by various governmental agencies to learn more about people behaviour, use it for monitoring crimes (think CSI) and many other advanced services that may not yet be imaginable but the privacy concerns and worries will remain.
The presentation below starts from slide 21 that shows the data part but feel free to view the previous slides.
The First 50 Billion Data Points
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Thursday, 9 June 2011
Smart people, dumb objects, networked environments
Nice presentation explaining Internet of Things (IoT).Smart people, dumb objects, networked environments
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Wednesday, 8 June 2011
3GPP LTE Security Aspects
Regular readers may have realised that Security is one of my favourite topics. Having worked on Security extensively in UMTS and now in LTE, I am always keen to have a complete understanding of the Security aspects of UMTS / LTE.Here is a presentation from a 3GPP workshop held in Bangalore in May 2011.
3GPP LTESecurity Aspects
3GPP LTESecurity Aspects
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This and other Security related presentations are available on 3G4G website.
Monday, 6 June 2011
Billing based on QoS and QoE
With Spectrum coming at a price the operators are keen to make as much money as possible out of the data packages being provided to the consumers. The operators want to stop users using over the top (OTT) services like Skype thereby losing potential revenue. They also want the users to stop using services that are offered by the operator thereby maximising their revenue.
A valid argument put forward by the operators is that 90% of the bandwidth is used by just 10% of the users. This gives them the reason to look at the packets and restrict the rogue users.
As a result they are now turning to deep packet inspection (DPI) to make sure that the users are not using the services they are being restricted to use. AllOt is one such company offering this service.
The following presentation is from the LTE World Summit:
Finally, a term QoS and QoE always causes confusion. Here is a simple explanation via Dan Warren on twitter:
They also have some interesting Videos on the net that have been embedded below. They give a good idea on the services being offered to the operators.
Finally, a term QoS and QoE always causes confusion. Here is a simple explanation via Dan Warren on twitter:
QoS = call gets established and I can hear what is being said, everything else is QoE
Friday, 3 June 2011
Carrier Aggregation with a difference
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What is being proposed is that Carrier Aggregation can use both the licensed as well as unlicensed bands but the signalling should only happen in the licensed band to keep the operator in control.
Note that this is only proposed for Small Cells / Femtocells.
The only concern that I have with this approach is that this may cause interference with the other devices using the same band (especially ISM band). So the WiFi may not work while the LTE device is aggregating this ISM band and the same goes for bluetooth.
Comments welcome!
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Making LTE Greener & Energy-Efficient to Enable Cost-Reduction in the Network
Interesting presentation from the LTE World Summit 2011.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Videos from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum 2011
Most of the videos from the Ericsson Innovation Forum 2011 are available on Youtube. Click on the links to watch the video:
Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley
Douglas Gilstrap, SVP, Chief Strategist, Ericsson
Vision of the Networked Society and our strategy to get there
Paul Saffo, Managing Director, Foresight at Discern Analytics and Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Magnus Mandersson, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Services, Ericsson
Erik Kruse, Networked Society Lab, Ericsson
Lior Netzer, Vice President, Mobile Network Strategy, Akamai
The cloud can make anyone an entrepreneur
Dhiraj Kumar, Mobile Strategist, Facebook
Wayne Ward, Vice President of Emerging Solutions, Sprint Nextel
Does a cow need to be connected? Connecting things and machine-to-machine
Håkan Eriksson, SVP, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley
Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA
Operator 3.0
Chris Russo, Deputy Fire Chief, Hull, Massachusetts and Executive Vice President and founder of Elerts
Philip Marthinsen, Producer and partner at House of Radon
Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology Officer, Sony Ericsson
Martin Körling, Head of Services & Software Research, Ericsson
Arun Bhikshesvaran, Vice President, Strategy & Market Development, Ericsson North America
Brian Higgins, Executive Director, LTE Ecosystem Development, Verizon Wireless
Michael Björn, Head of Research, Ericsson ConsumerLab
Mario Morales, Program Vice President, Enabling Technologies Group, IDC
Smart technology in Silicon Valley
Brian Wilcove, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
Complete agenda of the event here.
Friday, 27 May 2011
Dual Radio Solution for Voice in LTE
I did mention in the Twitter conversations post from LTE World Summit 2011 that there are now certain analysts and players in the market who think that it should be possible to have two radios. Here is a slide from ZTE that shows that they are thinking in this direction as well.
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Tri-SIM phones have been available for quite a while but now there are Quad-Sim Shanzhai phones that are available in China. I am sure there is a market for these kind of phones.
With the battery life and the mobile technology improving, these are no longer the concerns when talking about dual radio possibility in the devices. Another common argument is that there may be additional interference due to multiple radios simultaneously receiving/transmitting. I am sure these can be managed without much problem.
Another problem mentioned is we may need multiple SIM cards but the SIM cards used is actually a UICC. There can be multiple SIM applications and IMSI's on it. The network may need some very minor modifications but they should be able to manage this with no problems. In the good old days, we used to have mobiles with built in Fax. The mobile number used to be different from the Fax number. It was a similar kind of problem but managed without problem.
So there may still be time to keep LTE simple by standardising the dual-radio solution rather than having CSFB, VoLTE, SRVCC, VoLGA, etc.
Any thoughts?
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