Felix Freitag

Proposal(s) title:
  • Advancing IoT Connectivity: Bringing LoRa Mesh Networks to the IRTF GAIA WG
Proposal(s) topic:

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs:

The contribution made within this fellowship adds value to the development of LoRa mesh network technology. SMEs may then feel more confident in adopting the technology.

Impact on society:

The technology provides a permanent low-cost and low-energy routed multi-hop communication network with moderate data rates. LoRa mesh networks allow a new kind of distributed IoT applications in the long range IoT layer. One of the application areas of LoRa mesh networks is the emerging field of distributed embedded machine learning. LoRa mesh networks are not yet standardised. To initialise standardisation, we will introduce the LoRaMesh networks as a design and reference implementation.

Contribution impact:
  • New standard development
Proposal(s) title:
  • Requirements for architectural guidelines of digital product passport prototype for ICT goods
Proposal(s) topic:

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Contribution impact:
  • New standard development
  • In ITU-T Study Group 20 Question 5, I am co-editor of the two work items:
    1) ITU-T Y.DPP-ICT. It will define the Requirements and System Architecture of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) for ICT Goods, resulting in a Recommendation.
    2) ITU-T YSTR.OS-DPP-ICT. It will develop a Technical Report presenting a case study of an open-source DPP system for ICT goods, focusing on software solutions for the repair, refurbishment, and recycling sectors.

Value of Research

 The objective is to present LoRa mesh networks to the IRTF GAIA WG of the IETF. GAIA seeks technologies to connect the unconnected world, and with IRTF GAIA as a vehicle, we seek to start the standardisation activity of this new technology. 

Felix Freitag
Full Name: Felix Freitag
Title & Organisation Name: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Country: Spain
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