Eta Devices announced that it has been named a 2015 Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum (WEF) for its groundbreaking technology that dramatically reduces the energy consumption of mobile base stations and smartphones. The company joins a thriving community of previous WEF Technology Pioneers including AirBnB, Nest Labs, Dropbox, Kickstarter, Spotify and Twitter to name just a few recent recipients.
Based on 10 years of research at MIT, Eta Devices has solved the fundamental challenge in mobile communications of simultaneously achieving low energy consumption and utilizing the radio spectrum in a highly efficient manner. Many mobile subscribers compete for a limited amount of radio spectrum and use high bandwidth communications protocols like LTE, which resulted in lower and lower efficiency. Eta Devices’s new power architecture ETAdvanced solves this classic dilemma by working like a car’s automatic transmission, constantly providing exactly the right amount of power needed for the radio signal at any given time. The result is an 80% reduction in the amount of heat waste over conventional mobile power amplifiers deployed in today’s base stations.
ETAdvanced is a technology without drawbacks. It has saved about USD 18 billion in costs for mobile operators along with, annual greenhouse gas emissions from mobile communications corresponding to the emissions from nearly 5 million American homes. It extends battery life by at least 50% in smartphones, enables based stations which are exclusively powered by renewable energy to bridge the digital divide and bring the benefits of communications to the 1.7 billion people currently living off electricity grids.
