WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and development company, today announced that Dr. Alain Mourad, Head of InterDigital's Wireless Lab Europe, has been elected Chair of the ETSI's newly developed Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC).
The election was held at the inaugural ETSI ISAC ISG meeting on November 17, which also saw the election of vice chairs Dr. Ayman Naguib from Apple, Dr. Richard Stirling Gallacher from Huawei, and Prof. Henk Wymeersch from Chalmers University. More than 80 representatives from across industry and academia participated in the kickoff meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France, and collectively agreed that the ISG will establish the technical foundation for the development of ISAC technology and its standardization in 6G.
Sensing refers to the use of radio signals to detect and estimate characteristics of target objects in the environment and its integration enables the network to act as a "radar" sensor and utilize its own radio signals to comprehend the physical world it operates within. This enables the network to collect data on a ...