Partner Search

Summary

A small Italian company developed a wired and wireless technology using hot spots positioned on the territory that allow internet to reach its users. The main advantage of the proposed technology is straightforward: families and shops can have internet without having a landline telephone or without using slow internet keys. The company seeks industrial partners interested in further developments and financial resources.

Full description

The company proposes internet access and communication services reaching the users building through wireless signal, given by hot spot positioned throughout the territory. In order to use internet services and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone, it is necessary to have tools that receive the signal. The product that has been developed gives the possibility to surf the net without using landline telephone cables, but always without traffic and time limits. This happens in two different ways, depending on the situation:
1) If it is a single user that requires to be connected, a panel will be installed on the habitation roof, usually on its highest point; from this, through an Ethernet cable, the signal will be driven inside the apartment. The receiving panel will have to be installed clearly pointing one of the company Hot Spot, the principal source where the signal comes from.
2) When there is a group of users who live in the same building, there is another kind of solution that implies to install only one panel where can be connected up to 15 users. From there, a box will be connected from where Ethernet cables of each user will be linked. This solution allows to avoid that on the building roof happens to be installed as many panels as the number of users who requires the service. Moreover, the total cost that users are asked to pay is much lower, as well as the general visual impact.
In both these situations, each user will have the possibility to connect directly the computer to the Ethernet cable, or to a Wi-Fi router to surf in the entire apartment without cables.

Innovative Aspects

The main benefits of using a wireless technology for users and organizations are the following:
- It goes where cable and fiber cannot: the internet nature of wireless is that it does not require wires or lines to accommodate the data/voice/video pipeline. As such, the system will carry information across geographical areas that are prohibitive in terms of distance, cost, access, or time. Wireless technologies play a key role in extending the reach of cable, fiber, and DSL markets, and it does so quickly and reliably. It also commonly provides a competitive alternative to broadband wire line or provides access in geographies that don't qualify for loop access. Therefore, it is ideal for the non-reachable places such as across river or mountain or rural area.
- Increased efficiency: improved communications leads to faster transfer of information within the hot spot and the users
- Reduced costs: relative to wired, wireless networks are cheaper to install and maintain
- Flexible if there is ad-hoc situation when additional workstation was required

Partner expertise sought:

- Type of partner sought: The company looks for industries in order to project and realize together wireless connectivity network for private citizens and Public Administration. This collaboration allows to introduce internet, at a low rate, in areas that are not covered by broadband services, involved in the digital divide situation.

- Specific area of activity of the partner: The area the company is working on is telecommunication, therefore the ideal partner is an organization that dream to extend the own domain in the area. Moreover, besides conquer numerous territories, the idea is to develop Wi-Fi connection. The aim is to increase speed and quality, in order to provide a better service.

- Task to be performed by the partner sought: The idea is to increase the number of hot spots built, so to reach always more and more zones. Moreover, the quality of the signal has to get better and the speed has to increase in order to be competitive for the market. It is important to give the best service to users, so to assure internet in all the situations.