Bench Talk

Public transportation Wi-Fi networks pose several engineering challenges in providing fast and reliable service between vehicles, infrastructures, and machines. Dual, segmented routers provide the bandwidth, connectivity, and power essential for this application.

MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) is becoming a popular connectivity protocol for machine-to-machine communications in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Between the sessions, papers, workshops, and exhibit halls you got the sense that suddenly the super-hyped world of IoT, M2M, and V2V have finally intersected, and perhaps breathed new life into, the world of microwave, Millimeter wave (MMW), and 5G. At a time where the number of people in the world (6 billion) is exceeded by the number of cellphones…now what? IoT is what. M2M, V2V, IoT. Talk around Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) or what some refer to as 4.5G, is seen as an evolutionary step towards 5G driven largely by need to make those billions of connections possible.