Lime Micro recently announced that EE, the UK’s largest Mobile Operator is backing the LimeSDR initiative to develop the LimeSDR software defined radio platform that promises to help operators to create and deploy wireless network infrastructure almost anywhere at a fraction of today’s costs.
The LimeSDR platform is touted as a low cost application-enabled software defined radio (SDR) platform that can be programmed to support virtually any type of wireless standard. From Wi-Fi, ZigBee and Bluetooth through to cellular standards such as UMTS, LTE and GSM and to the emerging IoT communication protocols such as LoRa, the platform offers endless wireless connectivity opportunities.
EE is signing up for a 100-unit bundle of LimeSDR kit through Lime Micro's crowd-funding campaign hosted on Crowd Supply. These kits will be given to five UK universities nominated by EE, and recipients will develop wireless applications on the hardware and share these with the wider research community, encouraging further open source wireless innovation.
According to LimeSDR, it has introduced a total of 20 pledge-level 100-unit bundles, each for $99,000. The campaign has raised $326,282 of a total of $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and mass production of the platform.
