In recent years, there has been a significant amount of research and development efforts, both in academia and industry, on technologies that help build a connected world. Quite a few of the new applications being targeted need accurate positioning, or location-awareness. One cutting-edge wireless technology, which is optimized for secure micro-location-based applications, and thereby set out to play a critical role in enabling a myriad of new or enhanced applications that require highly accurate location and distance sensing, is the Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology. UWB is an IEEE 802.15.4a/z standard technology optimized for secure micro-location-based applications. Unlike other radio frequency technologies, UWB was specifically designed to enable precise, secure, real-time measurement of location, distance, and direction, while concurrently supporting two-way communication. There have also been significant efforts on defining a standard that would make UWB robust and immune to various forms of interference, assuring a high level of reliability. The presentation will focus on the key differentiating aspects of the technology, key topologies of usage and applications, and recent and upcoming developments in the IEEE and industry standards.
Speaker(s): , Dr Mousumi
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553393