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Think for a moment about the car of the future.

As you have probably guessed, it's quite smart, meaning your car can make driving decisions for itself.

It can react to input with lightning speed,

and all the while providing new levels of safety and efficiency.

So it stands to reason that the car of the future must have a really fast communication backbow, right?

I'm Peter Ballant from Technicon. Welcome to today's episode.

In previous podcasts, it's been said that the car of the future resembles a data communication

center on wheels. The Car 2 Terra project is helping to develop this concept by exploring how to effectively use

subterrahertz frequencies to transfer critical data in the fastest, most reliable way.

In Car to Terra, the project partners are bringing their research to life by constructing

and demonstrating a prototype of an in-cabin passenger monitoring system

and a short-range high data rate terrahertz over plastic wired links.

In Cartu-Tera, you would find partners from Austria, Sweden, Poland, Italy, and Spain.

And today, we speak with Herbert Sirat from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

His team is focusing on designing and building the circuits to be used in the demonstrators

in Cartu-Tura. Welcome, Herbert, and thanks for coming on today. Yeah, thank you for inviting me.

Give us a quick overview of Cartoutera from your perspective.

Yes, the Carto Terra project is about applications in the Terrahertz frequency range.

So in this project, we have chosen two different demonstrators.

One is a radar sensor for in-cabin monitoring of people for safety and security. And the other demonstrator is a high

data rate communication system for high data rate communication over plastic fiber instead of

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