Japan wants to revise ITU-R working text on mobile wireless acces...
Japan wants to revise ITU-R working text on mobile wireless access systems providing communications to a large number of ubiquitous sensors and/or actuators into a preliminary draft new recommendation. That’s according to its submission to next week’s meeting of…
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a working party on the land mobile service. The need to link sensors and actuators in wide areas is growing, the text said. It was referring to environmental monitoring, stolen goods tracing, gas, water, and electricity use monitoring, social security and health care. But large service and platform markets are not fully developed because wireless sensor networks cover only limited areas, the text said. High equipment costs also keeps large markets underdeveloped, it said. A new wireless access system may need to be considered, it said. A large number of low-end terminals need to be supported, the text said, suggesting ten times the population or more than 1 billion terminals in Japan. Secure connections are needed everywhere and anytime on a cell-based wireless system, the text said.