New pCell technology can cure slow wireless data

As more and more people today use tablets, smartphones and other handheld devices it turns out that they consume more amounts of data than a network can handle. This leads to slow loading times, intermittent connections, and dead spots - problems that Artemis Networks wants to banish with its unique pCell wireless technology. The technology is one of many techniques that companies are looking at to address the rising public appetite for mobile data, especially video. Artemis' solution utilizes the areas of interference in the network instead of eschewing them. pCell base stations, called pWaves, emit radio signals like normal cell towers do. The difference is that they don't avoid interference. pCells, instead, combine those overlapping radio signals and synthesize them into cells of personal wireless space, hence the name pCell. In effect, a mobile device connected to the network enjoys its own small bubble of wireless Internet connectivity instead of sharing a large area with dozens if not hundreds of users. The company founder Steve Perlman says the wireless system is basically the successor to LTE, the current high-speed wireless technology. In demonstrations at his laboratory, Perlman showed off iPhones, Surface tablets, and TVs streaming massive files-the 4K UltraHD version of House of Cards from Netflix, for example-via his own wireless networking equipment. The demonstration proved not only that the high-speed wireless technology worked but also that it would work with existing devices that support LTE. Artemis is in the process of putting pCell transmitters on about 350 rooftops in San Francisco, and Perlman is looking to work with a telco or technology company like Google or Microsoft to get a commercial service running in the fourth quarter.

"We'll do San Francisco first and then do New York, Chicago, Dallas, and other congested cities," says Perlman.

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