TII chairs new industrial wireless standards initiative
Abu Dhabi forms revolutionary new wireless initiative hosted by Linux Foundation
#UAE #standards - Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the global applied research centre of Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), is taking the lead in a new global technology standards effort by founding and chairing the OpenSTX Foundation. The Linux Foundation-hosted initiative will develop revolutionary industrial wireless communications protocols and oversee open standards. The new foundation is to spearhead the development of a vendor-neutral, open industry standard for Synchronous Transmissions (STX), a transformative wireless protocol designed to deliver ultra-reliable, secure, and energy-efficient communications for industrial applications.
Founder members of the OpenSTX Foundation include Imperial College London, Graz University of Technology, Fly4Future, RedNodeLabs, SKF CNEA, Technische Universität Darmstadtand, University of Trento.
SO WHAT? - The promise of next-generation STX protocols is that they will enable multiple devices to transmit simultaneously with precise synchronisation, bringing significant improvements to network reliability, reducing latency, and optimising power usage. Therefore, STX protocols could have a significant impact on the future of data communications and become instrumental in meeting the demands of AI-enabled systems and AIoT (the Artificial Intelligence of Things). As a champion of open-source code and open systems, UAE-based TII is now playing a crucial role in facilitating the creation and regulation of open standards for STX protocols.
Here are some key points about this initiative:
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII), is itself as a global technology standards leader by founding and chairing the OpenSTX Foundation, a Linux Foundation-hosted initiative developing vendor-neutral open industry standards for STX, a type of revolutionary industrial wireless communications protocols.
The new OpenSTX Foundation will be chaired by Technology Innovation Institute's Principal Researcher Michael Baddeley.
The foundation aims to establish a vendor-neutral, open industry standard for Synchronous Transmissions (STX), a transformative wireless protocol designed to deliver ultra-reliable, secure, and energy-efficient communications for industrial devices and their applications.
An international steering committee has already been formed for the new foundation which includes:
Imperial College London (UK),
Graz University of Technology (Austria),
Fly4Future (Czech Republic),
RedNodeLabs (Germany),
SKF CNEA (China),
Technische Universität Darmstadtand (Germany),
University of Trento (USA).
STX technology promises to significantly improves network reliability whilst reducing latency and optimising power usage, addressing critical requirements for industrial IoT, AIoT, smart cities, real-time asset tracking, and emergency response applications.
The initiative could hold strategic importance for Middle East and Africa (MENA) region, where rapid industrial and smart infrastructure development demands resilient and scalable wireless communication systems.
The Foundation welcomes global participation from industry players, researchers, and engineers to collaborate on shaping future wireless communications standards through open-source development methodologies.
The new OpenSTX Foundation has been founded under the Linux Foundation's Joint Development Foundation (JDF). The initiative is the 36th traditional standards collaboration.
TII’s leadership in the new STX initiative complement’s the role that the institute has already played in the development and support of open-source artificial intelligence models and training data.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]