Wireless connectivity limitations to be overcome with mioty

With the sponsors Fraunhofer Institute, ifm group of companies and Radio Technikum, the third event of the event series “Meet the Future of IoT” of the faculty Electronic Engineering & Entrepreneurship took place on May 11. This time, the topic was “mioty – wireless IoT standard of the next generation”. As usual, the program was entertaining and on a very high technical level. Technical insights and insider knowledge were shared and discussed with the professional audience. Some content was heard and seen for the first time that evening.

Water meters, unlike smartphones, are ideal for mioty

At the beginning, Thomas Polzer (Master’s program director IoT and intelligent systems) and moderator Harald Winkelhofer (Lecturer / Researcher Competence Field IoT and Electronics) welcomed the numerous guests. Stefan Ereth (Fraunhofer Institute) then spoke about mioty as a next-generation wireless IoT standard. “Water meters are ideal for mioty. They are often installed in the basement, send a few bytes once an hour and, on the other hand, have to make do with a battery for 10 years. Smartphones, on the other hand, are not suitable for mioty because they need high downlink rates for Internet and video streaming. Bluetooth devices are also not a use case for mioty, as they need to work closely with a paired device in close proximity,” Ereth explained possible use cases for the technology.

Radio stations: implementing meaningful use cases with mioty

Stephan Heide (ifm group of companies) then gave a presentation on “mioty – Next Generation LPWAN for Industry 4.0 Applications.” Ereth and Heide traveled especially from Germany, gave insights into the mioty transmission technology and were able to clarify very quickly “what it is and what it can do”. Another interesting program item of the evening: Gernot Fischer (Managing Director Radio Technikum) explained how a radio station can implement meaningful use cases with mioty. He gave insight into a unique research project for the roll-out of an Austria-wide mioty network with UAS Technikum Wien.

Numerous questions were addressed in detail in the subsequent panel discussion and Q&A session with Stefan Ereth, Stephan Heide and Gernot Fischer. Two hours after the event, there were still interesting conversations and networking with students and visitors from invited companies at the buffet. This IoT event series is open to all interested parties, serves as a platform for exchange with experts from partner companies of UAS Technikum Wien and will be continued with the fourth event in November due to the great demand.

On the cover, at the top: Stephan Heide (ifm group of companies) gave a presentation on “mioty – Next Generation LPWAN for Industry 4.0 applications”.