In 2006, the first time GSMA held its congress in Barcelona – still known as the 3GSM World Congress – 3G began to arrive and one of the great innovations was the DVB-H system that used antennas. to be able to broadcast DTT signal and be able to watch it on your mobile, specifically on a Nokia 7710. The idea did not thrive, but two generations later it has resurrected. At the Gran Via Fair, the first test of the 5G Broadcast system to broadcast digital television using mobile antennas was shown at the Rohde & Schwartz stand. As it is a broadcast service that does not charge the individual mobile internet connection, it might be used for applications such as offering replays of matches to all spectators at a football stadium. We’ll see if the idea, in which Cellnex Telecom and RTVE participate, ends up taking root. At least it took me a few minutes to get my hands on the most expensive phone I’ve ever tried, beyond the glossy inlaid luxury terminals that Russian oligarchs used to buy. It is one of the two prototypes that Qualcomm has created for the occasion, and rents to others involved for the modest price of 20,000 euros a year.
Autonomous cars will not be as we think
At Mobile we saw all sorts of robots, but there were no driverless cars. They are supposed to be one of the flagship applications of 5G networks, but lately expectations have cooled, at least in the short and medium term. In this period we are much more likely to see cases of remote-assisted driving, with cars that are like radio-controlled, but life-size. In the 5GCroCo pan-European program, in which Mobile World Capital Barcelona and the i2Cat Foundation participate, they have tested the viability of this remote driving, in which a remote driver takes control of the steering wheel to dodge an obstacle, but under specific conditions: the car disconnects from the mobile network of a country and connects to that of the neighboring country.
Preventive mobile medicine
The Eurecat technology center has created a mobile application for the Fundació Salut Empordà that allows patients to have an ophthalmological self-examination with clinical validation without leaving home, which indicates the risk of developing a vision problem and loads the result into a cloud platform from where you can transfer to My Health system. In a similar vein, the company AcceXible, hosted by Tech Barcelona, has presented to 4YFN a system that detects early the presence of depression or cognitive impairment (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke) by analyzing speech with previously trained algorithms. Primary care centers in the Basque Country are already using it.
