Weightless Wins Wireless Innovation Forum’s Prestigious Award

The Weightless Standard is optimized for this specific scenario and provides TDD operation with a wide range of provided data rates and range options depending on the application and operating environment. The Standard was designed to minimize cost and power consumption, featuring a chipset cost of less than USD$2, a range of 6 miles and a battery life of 10 years.

Commenting on the award, Lee Pucker, MSc. PMC CAE, Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless Innovation Forum, paid tribute to Weightless: “The Forum has considered a large number of world class innovations in an extensive process of deliberation before selecting Weightless as the winner of the Technology of the Year Award. This group views the Weightless Standard as a truly disruptive technology with the strong potential to fundamentally change the global machine communications space over the next five years.”

Professor William Webb, FREng, FIEEE, Chief Executive Officer of the Weightless SIG added “We are delighted to accept this prestigious award and for Weightless technology to have been recognized for the fundamental shift in machine communications that it is set to enable” adding that “The Internet of Things represents a massive global opportunity with forecasts of tens of billions of connected devices by 2020. White space is a near perfect solution to the spectrum problem and Weightless has been custom designed to tightly complement it.”

The winning company, Weightless, was named at the Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio (SDR - WInnComm 2013), the premier event for the reconfigurable radio community was held on January 8 - 11 2013 in Washington D.C., USA.

The Technology of the Year Award is made for outstanding breakthrough technologies in the field of Cognitive Radio and is selected by the members of the of the Forum.