TC-13 — wireless and telecommunications in measurements — in action

Abstract

Recent developments in the field of telecommunications, and at the same time in the field of smart sensors and instrumentation, have opened new horizons for society, especially for the digital society and smart implementations such as smart cities, smart homes, smart agriculture, smart healthcare, smart transportation, and smart manufacturing through Industry 4.0. To optimize the deployment of new smart sensing and instrumentation for these applications, communications between different sensing and actuation modules, as well as communications to convey the sensed information to decision-making entities, represent important issues in the 5G and beyond era. Characteristics such as flexibility, interoperability, and scalability of wireless and wired systems are key factors for the development of the digital society. In this framework, TC-13 members are working to provide solutions for the emerging field of telecommunications, with a focus on wireless communications (beyond 5G, Wi-Fi, satellite, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as the co-existence of such systems), optical communications (fiberoptic based, optical wireless, and visible light) and underwater communications (acoustic and optical wireless). At the same time, and in strong connection with the above developments, significant research efforts have been made in the area of Internet-of-things (IoT). TC-13 is developing important research work related to IoT ecosystem components, including the communication between sensors and instrumentation and the edge/fog/cloud computing. 5G is a key component in the evolution of cloud-computing toward a more distributed environment, including fog and edge computing.