The Wireless Innovation Forum Announces Completion of an Energy Management API Standard for Use in System and Subsystem Integration
The
Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum), a non-profit international
industry association dedicated to driving the future of radio
communications and systems worldwide, announced today the release of a
new standard addressing power management. The document, WINNF-TS-3001
Power Management API, provides a means for radio platforms to make
intelligent decisions about the available system energy and where/how to
consume that energy to maximize operational goals. This allows software
defined radio (SDR) manufacturers to build high bandwidth, high data
rate, low Size Weight and Power (SWaP) radios where battery life is
synonymous with mission success, leading to more robust SDR systems.
“Since power is the largest expense of warehouse scale computing and one
of the largest costs of supporting forces deployed OCONUS, this API has
the potential to save hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of
dollars in energy costs in the next decade,” said Joe Mitola, the
originator of SDR and contributor to the standard.
The document was produced by the WInnForum’s Software Defined Systems
(SDS) Committee Energy Management Task Group, led by chair Bruce Fette
of Institute for Defense Analyes. It was created for military tactical
radio communications suppliers, tactical radio communications software
developers, and software development tool providers who are
participating in or supporting tactical radio waveform development onto
software defined radio or cognitive radio platforms and focuses on
emerging tactical communications energy demands driven by the need for
standardized energy management and energy efficiency mechanisms, making
SDRs competitive with custom designed radios in energy efficiency.
From March 2017 through June 2018 members of the SDS Committee’s Energy
Management Task Group developed the document which provides industry
standard means and methods to the system integration community for the
communications equipment and other subsystems to manage performance
versus energy consumption tradeoffs resulting in a match of subsystem
resources to current mission needs. This in turn enables the system to
maximize mission duration and success rate. Each subsystem component can
share its understanding of current energy needs, modes of operation, and
can shift energy amongst subsystems as needed, thus matching the dynamic
changes of subsystems throughout various phases of a mission.
The document provides background information on the considerations of
the API as well as use cases and the IDL itself. You can download it
here: http://bit.ly/WInnForum-EMAPI.
Supported by platinum sponsors Motorola
Solutions, Leonardo,
and Thales,
WInnForum has several working groups focusing on projects related to
SCA, Software Defined Systems and Spectrum Innovation. Visit http://www.WirelessInnovation.org
to learn more. Individuals or organizations wishing to participate in
WInnForum Working Groups should contact Lee Pucker at Lee.Pucker@WirelessInnovation.org.
About the Wireless Innovation Forum
Established in 1996, The Wireless Innovation Forum (SDR Forum Version
2.0) is a non-profit mutual benefit corporation dedicated to advocating
for spectrum innovation and advancing radio technologies that support
essential or critical communications worldwide. Members bring a broad
base of experience in Software Defined Radio (SDR), Cognitive Radio(CR)
and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technologies in diverse markets and at
all levels of the wireless value chain to address emerging wireless
communications requirements. To learn more about The Wireless Innovation
Forum, its meetings and membership benefits, visit www.WirelessInnovation.org.
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