Empowering a new realm of devices and services through optimized connectivity. The world is moving towards a fundamentally disruptive new era where mutually-conscious intelligent devices leverage awareness of environmental circumstances and user needs to determine how to communicate on the fly via dynamic spectrum use for improved connectivity and capacity.

Research is centered in Helsinki, including at the lablet at Otaniemi and, is focused on:

• Methods for flexible spectrum use
• Novel ways of sensing the radio environment and location
• Distributed networks that intelligently cooperate
• Low power flexible implementation of radio modem

Teams working on High Performance Mobile Platforms include:

• Optimized Local Access
• Cognitive radio system
• Distributed radio networking
• Enabling radio technologies
• Cognitive radio implementation

Working with these teams are several of our Open Innovation partners:

• Tampere University of Technology
• Helsinki University of Technology

Cognitive radios are aware of their surroundings and bandwidth availability and are able to dynamically tune the spectrum usage based on location, nearby radios, time of day and other factors. This provides for a more efficient use of the spectrum as well as reducing power consumption, and enabling high priority communications to take precedence if needed.

Varied devices will be able to detect other radios around them and work together to optimize the use of spectrum, allocate resources and more easily communicate to their peers.