At this present time the UK faces a unique opportunity. Government is seeking ways to deliver 'more for less' and to drive economic growth. Digital communications has a unique and key role in both spheres. Walter will briefly introduce two recent publications from Mobile VCE which outline the opportunity for digital communications to transform public services & other industries, and call for a stronger industry voice to Government to communicate the reality of the 'digital economy'.

Refs:
"Growing the Digital Economy"
Public Service Agency's UK Science & Technology, Issue 1, pp60-61, and

"The Third Wave of Wireless"
National Microelectronics Yearbook 2010/2011, pp20-27
(a more detailed treatise on the same theme)

‘User Interactions for Breakthrough Services’ and ‘Secure Autonomous Business Collaboration’ (aka Instant Knowledge) comprise respectively the consumer - and enterprise-oriented service programmes within Mobile VCE. This talk will describe some of research advances emerging from these two research programmes and what these could enable.

Future services will increasingly deliver dynamically composable services, tailored to the needs of the individual, be that as a private individual or as a key business employee with a potentially rapidly-changing role. User Interactions is exploring a range of new user interaction modalities – such as pressure, temperature, gesture – and the ways in which the user may interact with intelligence in the network; two specific application fields are being used to give focus to this work, Augmented Travel and Nomadic & Collaborative Media. Instant Knowledge is using technologies of machine learning, social networking and privacy & security to harness the information that flows through the user’s connected-devices (phone, PC) to deliver immediate information to support his workflow, potentially enabling new processes and business models. This talk will describe research advances emerging from these programmes.

Reduction of OpEx and CO2 emissions were key drivers of VCE’s research on Green Radio, a term first coined by its Visions Group in early 2007, and which has subsequently had major industry impact. However, Green Radio is needed not so much for today as tomorrow.

With 3D holographic capabilities emerging, the drive to replace transportation of people and goods with transportation of information bits could trigger a second data explosion in telecom networks dwarfing current concerns. To capitalise on this opportunity will require major innovation in both wireless and wired infrastructure, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency. This talk will describe some of these opportunities and research advances emerging from Mobile VCE’s Green Radio and Flexible Networks programmes.

Cognovo is a company formed with the vision of changing the cellular and wireless industries through the realisation of a new Software Defined Modem Platform targeted at mobile handsets. This flexible platform is built around Cognovo’s new Vector Signal Processing engine which, together with its associated vectorising compiler and suite of software tools, enable our licensed customers to create high performance multimode chipset solutions for LTE and beyond.

Iceni Mobile is a new Cambridge based company offering secure mobile services and extended network coverage into emerging markets, providing sustainable solutions for their low wage and rural communities. Iceni Mobile Services offers highly flexible secure transaction platform for mobile services such as money transfer, agribusiness, health, education and government. Iceni Mobile Infrastructure offers an ultra-low cost and zero-power solution for extending GSM mobile infrastructure into remote rural locations.

Iceni builds on a capability for innovation and expertise proven through the creation and operation of M-PESA, Vodafone’s multi-award winning mobile-payment platform in Kenya, and also the radio technology underpinning Lo-Jack, the Tracker system for stolen vehicle recovery in the USA, South Africa and elsewhere.

An opportunity to network with your peers from other companies. During this session, technology demonstrations will also be available, enabling guests to see ‘hands on’ some of the new ideas and capabilities emerging from Mobile VCE’s programmes and explore their applicability.