Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SmartRay (Smart Large Scale Radio Technology for the Tactile Internet)
Reporting period: 2015-06-01 to 2015-10-31
Market analysis: Based on own research and feedback from the community, we confirm the initial assumption of a broader market size of about 2 million outdoor macro base stations and about 10 million small cells shipped in 2020, which can be addressed by Airrays’ technology.
Go-to-market strategy: Airrays identifies two market segments of interest and establishes concrete strategies to enter these markets either via a niche application in the first segment or via direct cost savings followed by provision of additional features in the second segment. For both segments a lead customer from different parts of the ecosystem is needed. Potential lead customers are identified.
Customers: Airrays has performed a case study with a prospective customer. The results show potential capacity increase of 10x compared to a single macro cell.
Freedom-to-operate: Airrays has extensively investigated existing IPR and identified several patents which claims directly relate to Airrays technology. Further investigations have shown that Airrays does not infringe those claims due to its unique product architecture. Airrays has further filed own IPR in order to protect its solutions. Airrays has further verified that key hardware components are readily available. For each component, more than one supplier is identified. The situation where Airrays becomes dependent on a single supplier is avoided.
Component measurement campaigns have led to the selection of key components for the product prototype. We have shown that all regulatory requirements, in particular ACLR and EVM, can be fulfilled.