Revolutionizing Wireless Communication

We are months away from one of the biggest wireless communication revolutions of the decade. The LimeSDR (formerly SoDeRa) will be launched shortly. The LimeSDR is the first cheap open source Software Defined Radio that can both send and receive. The LimeSDR is powerful enough to be a full MiMo LTE base station with long range coverage, provided you add the right antenna. You can via apps put other wireless communication protocols like LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, GPS, Galileo, Airspace protocols, radar, MRI scanning RF, TV/Radio, any toy/robot/drone control, White Space, etc. But most importantly because of its price and ease of adding more protocols, the LimeSDR will enable anybody to define competing wireless communication protocols and put them into Github. Developers don't like closed standards like LTE or complex standards like Bluetooth & Zigbee. The future will allow developers to compete against corporations and standardization bodies if they think current standards can be improved upon. The Internet has shown that this dynamic brought us easier standards through adoption like JSON and Yaml vs XML and EDI. Wireless, RF and telecom engineers never had an Arduino like the electronics engineers. The SoDeRa will plug this hole.

The Business Impact of the LimeSDR

With the right volume of orders it will be a manner of time before LTE base stations will cost less than $100 for the open source hardware. Via apps these LTE base stations will be more innovative than proprietary competitors. Via app stores on LTE base stations they will allow operators to generate additional revenue, e.g. next-generation CDN, parental control, big data analytics on the tower, customize base stations for customers, etc.

Since hardware vendors, software vendors and service vendors can be different companies, overall total cost of ownership for telecom operators should dramatically fall. We should see regular IT system integrators to be able to manage deployment, integration and support for both the mobile base station hardware and software.

So the LimeSDR will be the first step to commoditize wireless communication, bring substantially more innovation into wireless standards, and bring new revenue for telecom operators. Operators and other enterprise that are interested in sponsoring the crowd-funding campaign before it launches, should contact quickly the people from Lime Microsystems who are behind the LimeSDR. Previous generations of Lime Microsystems ' processors are already in production in large-scale base station deployments for large US operators. Others that want to pre-order the SoDeRa can do so by clicking on the button on the right at the limesdr.org website.