002 Connectivity

Device Connectivity Capabilities

Wifi

First Prometeo Device: wifi connectivity through the firefighter's mobile phone. It's important to have good mobile coverage to be able to send the data through Internet to IBM Cloud services.

Strength: Easy and quick implementation.

Weakness: there are countries with no global mobile coverage. Example: Australia

Bluetooth LTE

Working on the enrolment through Bluetooth

Local Network/Project Owl

Testing done in February'2020 with good results It requires "ducks"/local devices deployment

Strength: Local connectivity in locations without mobile coverage.

Weakness: need of local network deployment

5G

Starting the phase to test 5G

Edge platform

Starting the phase to redesign the solution to be able to (1) work off-line and (2)have a centralized management system to update devices in all locations