Business & Enterprise

Office and Campus Wireless LANs

Enterprise class wireless LANs will benefit from improved range coverage and building penetration over existing WiFi frequencies. This will be beneficial to business where affordable coverage is an issue. White spaces may also provide for additional capacity – particularly where multiple white spaces channels are available. Data rates will vary depending on equipment and available white spaces channels , but should be similar to or better than current WiFi networks.

Wide Area Monitoring and Remote Control

The favorable propagation characteristics of white spaces frequencies (particularly in the lower part of the band)  will enable long range communications with sensors, process control, monitoring stations and more.    These systems typically require less than a hundred kbps to operate efficiently.  These lower data rates will typically allow communications over a wider area than a typical WiFi broadband network.  Systems could be ideal for agricultural, mining, forestry and other “rural” industries due to the large areas to be covered and the availability of abundant white spaces channels.

Vehicle and Asset Tracking

White spaces-based radio systems could provide a low costs solution for vehicle and  asset tracking for many businesses.  By combining GPS information with a white spaces-based radio networks, real time tracking of people, equipment and materials could be conducted for both indoor and outdoor operations.  Both permanent and on-demand networks could be deployed for inventory tracking, event management or disaster recovery – just to name a few potential applications.

Private Voice and Data Networks

White spaces rules are flexible enough to allow voice data and video to reside on a single network.  Private networks could be deployed to meet all the wireless communications needs of a business or enterprise using white spaces frequencies.  Airports, seaports, big box stores, manufacturing facilities, utilities, water, oil or materials processing plants are just some of the industries that could leverage white spaces for a private voice and broadband network.