India to build commercial tech for mobile base station

In a first, India will be developing technologies for mobile base stations that can be commercialised, which will boost a host of private firms including small and medium industries, academia research labs and make 5G services — yet to be launched — more affordable.

The technology will be developed as part of a Rs 150-crore national project that officially kicked off earlier this month in Bengaluru. A Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) established as a Section-8 (not-for-profit) company at the International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) will lead the R&D collaboration.

This government-funded project — under the national mission on interdisciplinary cyber physical systems (NM-ICPS) — will also build other advanced communications and cyber physical systems technologies relating to, but not limited to, 5G.