So, imagine the mechanical pencil used by engineers of the time becoming something almost anyone could buy in a retail store setting. That’s democratization of technology and that’s a pattern worth digging into more.
Along comes Software Defined Radios (SDRs)
SDRs are not new. However, getting another chunk of radio spectrum that anyone can use is a fairly recent development.
This is excellent news. US citizens will enjoy the fruits of this ruling concurrent with the growing ubiquity of democratized access to signal processing via Software Defined Radios (SDRs) and edge computing solutions.🤖📻☁️📡📶 https://t.co/rEbrrCIs99
“US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC’s decision to designate a large swath of the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users, after AT&T challenged the FCC”
“HackRF One from Great Scott Gadgets is a Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1 MHz to 6 GHz.”
“What is RTL-SDR? RTL-SDR is a very cheap ~$25 USB dongle that can be used as a computer based radio scanner for receiving live radio signals in your area (no internet required).”
Taking SDRs to an edge computing context is where real use cases begin to emerge. Over time, democratized access will provide more flexible COTS solutions that are accessible to anyone while simultaneously transforming our relationship to real world devices that will increasingly communicate for our benefit.
“Run a software defined radio (SDR) spectrum analyzer on a tablet computer. This video shows the Analog Devices Pluto, controlled by qIQ Transceiver, running on a Microsoft Surface Go tablet.”
“Softwarization, virtualization, and disaggregation are some of the foundational concepts of 5G-and-beyond communication networks. Softwarization of the RAN, and its realization using a software-defined radio (SDR) paradigm, is critical for supporting the three key use cases that are the hallmark of 5G:
So, if you’ve ever wondered what newsletters I’ve been reading as well as the passages that I believe deserved highlighting – lookno further: https://getmatter.app/JayCuthrell/ 🤓🖍💬
If Matter profiles ever offer a RSS feed that could truly take my reading workflow to ouroboros level.♻️
In the past I would create content using social media. Now, I am at the point where I want to create compelling content in a more durable medium that others would want to share on social media.
Granted, I’ve been using social media since it came into existence and this will be a big change. As such, I’ll focus on my newsletter and my blog.
So, my use of Twitter and LinkedIn will likely be very different in 2022.
Work Plug!
As a reminder, I work at Faction. What’s Faction you ask?🤔🤔🤔🤔
