Mobile transmission and how it's being used

Mobile transmission technology is always being further developed, allowing data transmission to keep getting faster. Leading companies in live video services and broadcast solutions and developed the technology that enables live video transmission from any location in the world. In 2012, live video was transmitted from the TEDx conference held in Tokyo to the Q's Eye screen above Shibuya crossing, an iconic seven story display, as well as transmitting the conference to thousands of tv screens across the world. To accomplish this, all that was used was a personal grade LU60 backpack and handheld LU40i mobile video transmission technology. No satellite was required, which increases the affordability of mobile transmission. This means that more companies can use mobile transmission technology and apply it to whatever use they have. This technology was also used during the 2012 Presidential Campaign, the Super Bowl, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Though mobile transmission is not a new technology, the speed at which data can now be transferred is faster than ever, because live video requires faster data transmission.  

One rising use of mobile transmission data is for fuel management. Recent technological advances in fuel management now allow for over-the-air (abbreviated OTA) security and control of fleet vehicles. Using wireless communication for fleet security and control enables more preventative measures such as the ability to disable a vehicle while its operating and the ability to recover rogue or stolen vehicles.

Fuel management systems, which are used to monitor and control the fuel consumption and the stock of a fleet of vehicles, can now add more benefits; they can monitor the vehicles at any location using mobile transmission, they can improve the efficiency and productivity while reducing the costs. Being able to use wireless communication for fuel management gives the companies the ability to monitor and control their fleets 100 percent of the time, which in turn gives them more data to use towards finding more cost efficient fleet fuel management systems and solutions.    

According to Government Fleet almost 90 percent of fleet organizations use a fleet management system. This means that companies that develop fuel management solutions need to stay up to date with the software and equipment that they are able to provide. The next development is to create software that can be downloaded onto mobile phones and smartphones. The tools available to use for a live video transmission include: transmission backpacks (such as the LU60 mentioned above), a satellite/cellular hybrid, external antenna solutions and smartphones. Smartphones rank highest in location-independence, localizability and accessibility, so having fleet management system software available for smartphones and enabling the businesses to use video-over-cellular solutions as fuel management solutions would transform the news industry. One such technology is the LU700-SV, which is a hybrid video uplink system that one can use for vehicles. Applying this technology to a fleet of news vehicles would enable networks to report news, using live video, from all over the world.