Tracking Future Technology Evolutions in ETSI
The ETSI Technology Radar (ETR) provides a high-level description of the main technology trends emerging in ICT that may be relevant for ETSI's present and future work.
In ETSI we create strong links between Researchers, Innovators & Standards Makers by looking at future technology trend evolutions, with initiatives such as:
- The ETSI Technology Radar, tracking the evolving technology trends
- Building enablers for Research and Innovation into Standards
- Creation of new technical groups [Industry Specification Groups (ISGs) / Technical Bodies (TBs) / other] in ETSI
The ETSI Technology Radar (ETR) provides a high-level description of potential ICT Trends as well as providing potential actions and areas of investigation for ETSI members and technical groups. It is open for consultation and feedback is welcome and encouraged.
Please send any feedback or ideas on the ETR to research@etsi.org.
The 10 Technology Trends from the ETR 2021 Edition
5G Evolution
- 5G NR
- 5G for Verticals
- B5G to 6G
- mmW to THz
- Holographic Radio
Artificial Intelligence
- AI Lifecycle
- Machine Learning
- Securing AI
- Ethics in AI
Autonomous Networks
- Zero Touch
- Self Organizing
- Self Healing
- Self synthesizing Networks
Cybersecurity
- Security
- Trust
- Privacy
- AI Secure
Distributed Ledgers
- Blockchain
- PDLs
- DAGs
- NFTs
Dynamic Data
- Big Data
- Data Analytics
- Dynamic Data
- Semantic Interop
Extended Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Virtual Reality
- Mixed Reality
- Towards the Metaverse
IoT
- Ontologies
- M2M > IoT
- Industrial IoT
- Sensors / wearables
- Internet of Senses
- Internet of Skills
Quantum
- Quantum Safe
- Quantum Key
Autonomous Systems
- Cloud Robotics
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- Unmanned Systems
- Robots / Cobots
- Drones / HAPS
NEW Technology Trends selected from the ETR 2022 Edition
Photonics
- Terabit PONs
- Optical networks
- Photonics space comms
- Photodiodes for THz
- Links to OWC
- Photonic Sensing
(sub)THz and THz Comms
- Sub-THz
- Full THz
- PNS with THz
- Position
- Navigate
- Sense
Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
- RIS beamforming
- Meta-materials/surfaces
- RIS Wireless Power Transfer
- Location and sensing
Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)
- VLC = Visible Light Comms
- LiFi = Light Fidelity
- OCC = Optical Camera Comms
- FSOC = Free Space Orbital Comms
- LIDAR = Light Detect and Ranging
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
- Satellite (LEO/MEO/GEO)
- High Throughput Sats (HTS)
- Cubesats
- HAPS
- UAV
Intelligent Distributed EDGE
- EDGE powered by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques
- EDGE Native
- Disaggregation and virtualization at the distributed EDGE
Integrated Sensing & Communicating Networks (ISAC)
- Waveform/sequence/coding/modulation/beamforming
- MIMO, massive MIMO, and intelligent reflecting surface (RIS) for ISAC
- Passive sensing using communication waveforms
- Millimeter wave and THz ISAC
High Performance Computer (HPC)
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Neuromorphic Compute
- Convergence of compute & comms architectures =
- Unified network compute fabric
Sustainability
- Energy Harvest/Transf.
- Low Power Operations
- AmBC (amb. Backscatter)
- Recycle materials
- Resource optimization
- Efficient bandwidth
Some Technology Trend USE CASES for the ETR 2022 Edition
Digital Twins
- Massive Digital Twinning
- Virtual worlds
- Digi. Twin of the Telco Network
Internet of Everything / Internet of Skills
- Internet of Skills
- Internet of Everything
- Internet of Senses
- Haptic Internet
Holographic Communications
- Teleportation
- Immersive Telepresence
Collaborative Working
- Online Education
- Immersive workspace
eHealth
- Telemedecine
- Public Health monitoring
- AI-assisted Diagnosis
Smart Cities
- Immersive Cities
- IoT Micro-Networks for Smart Cities
Earth Monitor
- Sensing
- Positioning
- Measuring
- Navigating
- Visualizing state
Mobility
- Unmanned mobility
- Robot swarms
- Level 5 AVs
Metaverse
- AR/VR + AI + Internet
- Holograms
- Avatars
- Collaborative working
- Social Networking
Next Generation User Interfaces
- Human machine interface
- Mind to mind communications
- Embedded / ingested devices
- Wearables (VR/AR/XR)
- SIM - > Smart Agents
