Press Release 2018
5G Wireless System For Pedestrian Safety
Middletown, NJ, April 1, 2018/PN Newswire/ - The 5th Generation wireless system, under development the world over, promises to enable connected cars to provide substantially greater safety, but Spectrum Financial Partners, LLC announces recent developments that provide an innovative way to protect pedestrians as well.
5G, as the latest generation of wireless standard is called, has been trialed by many wireless service providers including AT&T, Verizon, Docomo, Orange and equipment vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and Samsung. Intel, Ericsson, Toyota, Denso, and NTT DoCoMo have demonstrated 5G connections to cars moving at high speeds, including at the Indianapolis 500. Data speeds have exceeded 10Gbps in the downlink and 1 Gbps in the uplink and, critically, latencies under 1 msec have also been demonstrated.
These capabilities, as well as plans to standardize peer-to-peer communications capabilities, embryonic as they may be, will enable automobiles to communicate, nearly instantaneously, with the intelligent roadways, signs, and even other connected cars. Operating 100s of times faster than existing Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) this will allow cars to caravan, informing each other of road conditions ahead and even around corners and through fog. A lead car might even detail the position and shape of potholes ahead.
When a leading car brakes or veers around an obstacle, wireless 5G signals can alert nearby cars of the problems so they may more gently slow or change lanes, for example.
In these ways, 5G may be a key enabler of connected cars of the near future, helping to greatly reduce the 33,000 fatalities in the US (1.3 million globally) each year due to car accidents. But what of pedestrians?
Spectrum Financial Partners announces plans to incorporate 5G radio transceivers in a line of shoes for connection to the mobile web of connected cars. With these innovative shoes, a pedestrian walking near an intersection will alert nearby cars of its presence, direction and pace of travel, explained Jay Walken, director of Forward Looking Work at Spectrum Financial Partners. “The shoes regularly transmit their trajectory to nearby 5G terminals that have joined a connected car web, forming a larger web of mobile terminals that are classified by velocities with faster units updating more rapidly but all nearby units receiving the situational awareness status broadcasts. Our Project ‘Futuristic Location & Orientation for Pedestrians’ or Project FLOP as we call it, can haptically alert pedestrians of oncoming danger with a vibration or toe tap.” The advanced shoes include motorized wheels for self-navigating shoes that move the wearer in amongst other connected pedestrians and automobiles. Bicyclists wearing these shoes also join the connected swarm of mobile users as well as the connected infrastructure such as road signs and traffic lights.
Our ‘Foundation for Lifesaving Internet Project’ (FLIP) uses the FLOP shoes to save lives and further increase the hype associated with 5G wireless systems.
We at Spectrum Financial Partners encourage everyone to buy our new shoes, for their own safety; pedestrians wearing legacy shoes will essentially be invisible to these new advances brought to them by 5G Wireless and will likely become less safe as a result. The FLIP-FLOPs (patent pending) go on sale this April Fools’ day.###
About Spectrum Financial Partners, (www.spectrumfinancialPartners.com)
Spectrum Financial Partners, LLC manages private equity funds investing in radio spectrum licenses, particularly in 23 recent licenses in the 600 MHz band. We provide consultations and valuation services for maximizing the utility of radio licenses. Spectrum Financial Partners celebrates the progress and utility of wireless technology and hopes that you enjoy our April Fools’ Day humor. Media Contact: Stephen Wilkus Stephen.Wilkus@SpectrumFinancialPartners.com
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