White space and wireless communicationsOctober 2013

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Private or shared whitespace network• Low operating cost• Cover rural areas• Low carbon footprint

GSM mobile network• Low setup cost• No maintenance• Wide area coverage• Low carbon footprint

Drive by network• Short range

communication• High carbon footprint• Widely supported

Options

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Whitespace network

• Choose where to cover rather than where is covered

• Grow network over time

• As little as £8 per year per device

• Very low cost hardware

• 10+ km radius from a single base station

• Cover rural areas

• No need for vehicles on road

• Reusing analogue TV bands

Recycling and low carbon

Wide area

coverage

Flexibility

Low operating cost

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GSM mobile network

• Established and proven networks

• Big brand providers

• Discounts for large networks

• Opportunity to switch networks

• Use networks already in place

• Network coverage growing each year

• No need to drive vehicles to collect data

Recycling and low carbon

Wide area

coverage

Tried and

tested

Operating cost

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Drive by network

• Drive by increases risk of readings missed

• Less frequent readings

• No operator fees

• Cost for vehicles, fuel and drivers

• Cheap s-range transmitters

• Drive anywhere that meters are located

• Vehicles on the road creating pollution

High carbon footprint

Wide area

coverage

Low reliabilit

y

Operating cost

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Whitespace networks provided

Network fully managed

Base stations installed

Whitespace network design

Whitespace enabled

Meters & data loggers supplied

Whitespace networks enable low cost machine to machine communications over a wide area including rural areas.

Additional benefits can be provided such as very low cost to free 16 Mbit broadband in rural areas.

New Whitespace devices in development from Google mobile phones to new home routers.