Utility Connect and Rijkswaterstaat to test LTE-M within 450 MHz spectrum for critical maritime and nautical application
Rijkswaterstaat (ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management) and Utility Connect has signed an agreement to jointly conduct research and robustness tests into maritime and nautical usability of data communication with LTE-M at 450MHz frequency (LTE450), the coming two years, for several use cases and under varying (meteorological en situational) conditions.
A LTE450 base station and antennas have now been placed and activated on the test platform of the Offshore Expertise Center to enable experimental pilot studies in the field. In the tests applications such as smart measurement buoy with various sensors and means of communication and mission-critical speech and other mission-critical applications (MCX) are to be tested.