Wireless Systems (WS)

Introduction

The world is changing and ICT is expected to penetrate new areas as an enabler.of new services and applications. It is therefore a necessity to start looking at crossdiciplinary approaches to research. This calls for identification of opportunities, interpretation of weak signals and thus new openings for ICT.

Goal

The Wireless Systems (WS) implements the strategy of CWC by identifying new opprtunities and doing research on these new areas and especially identifying new system development opportunities as well as continuing work on pre-identified areas. CWC has extremely broad expertise in wireless systems research as the results in security and defence related systems development shows. The goal is to do research in such a fashion that it supports the need of our customers in their product development or system specification work.

Focus areas

Security and Defence related communication, navigation and radar systems have been on our research agenda since inception of CWC. Medical ICT and Short Range Communication (SRC) have history for more than 10 years. In the SRC area especially sensor networking has attained a great deal of research effort in the last years. New emerging areas include smart energy grids and solutions for emerging markets. In smart energy grids the research efforts are concentrating in identifying novel architectures for smart distributed control and data distribution including modifications to existing communication systems such as LTE or LTE-A.

Teams

Currently, WS group consists of 3 teams each concentrating on their specific expertise areas

  • Security and Defence Systems
  • SRC and Medical ICT
  • Transfer for Emerging Technologies

Contact:

Director Ari Pouttu
e-mail: ari.pouttu at ee.oulu.fi
tel. +358 8 553 2827
mobile: +358 40 5432 694