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Integrated antennas. It's probably not something you often think about, but something which makes sense from a technical and aesthetic viewpoint.

I'm talking about embedding antennas into the everyday objects around us.

Imagine things like furniture and fixtures, which have the capability to send and receive signals from your phone.

It would be a game changer, I'd say.

I'm Peter Balland from Technicon, and today we will look at how the Reindeer Project can help facilitate this idea of embedded antennas by using radio

weaves. The Reindeer Consortium consists of nine partners from four countries with the goal of

developing the Radio Weaves smart connectivity platform as an efficient, smart, scalable, and

secure connectivity infrastructure. Today we speak with project partner Eric Larson.

He's a professor and head of the division for communication systems in the Department

of Electrical Engineering at Linshopping University in Sweden.

Thanks for coming on the podcast today.

Oh, thank you for having me.

The term radio waves is a prominent component in reindeer. In fact, this term was developed

by the partners in the project. And we have discussed this a bit in a previous podcast, but give

us the big idea here. So radio weaves, not to be confused with radio waves. Radio waves is a technical

term that we have developed in the project and that refers to a wireless infrastructure where antennas are interwoven and integrated into the environment.

So for example, it could be built into walls in a building or a ceiling or even furniture or even other objects.

I mean, even pieces of art,

for example. So that's where the term comes from. And radio weaves technology is meant to operate

at low carrier frequencies. So quite generally, I mean, wireless evolves in generation. So we're

now at 5G and 5G is being deployed on a wide scale.

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