Defining Sectors
The SRD industry covers a very wide range of applications.
To enable individual members to focus attention on their areas of specific interest,
the LPRA is organised into industry sectors as shown below:
Sector Name |
Manager(s) |
Low power radio is mainly used in imagery and monitoring devices in the medical sector. Familiar applications would be pacemakers, hearing aids and medical scanners. |
Saad Mezzour |
RFID systems operate in several licence exempt frequency bands, co-existing with other low power devices. Typical applications include access control, mass transportation, logistics and security. |
Jacques Hulshof |
Road and Rail (Transport) This sector embraces historical applications, such as truck and rail wagon to infrastructure signalling and communications links as well as emerging vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications and short range radar ranging. |
Brian Back |
Radio Telemetry and Telecommand The monitoring or gathering of data or the issuing of controls using wireless technology. Examples include automatic meter reading (AMR), remote pollution monitoring, remote pump control (telecommand), process wireless automation, pressure monitoring of oil well heads, water distribution network monitoring, remote temperature monitoring, remote sensor 4-20mA wireless links, remote rodent monitoring (pest control) and the linking of process controllers - wireless Modbus etc. |
Brian Back |
This sector focuses on all aspects of building automation, including energy management and building controls as well as the emerging market for remote metering systems. |
Philippe Magneron |
The Internet of Things (IoT) is widely referred to as the 4th Industrial Revolution with wireless technologies at its heart. Almost 20-years on from its birth, IoT has spread into the home, with a variety of devices from Wi-Fi connected home appliances, Bluetooth smart sensors such as fitness tracking devices all forming part of the IoT revolution which according to many analysists forms part of a market that could be worth over $4 Trillion by 2025. |
Brian Back Simon Dunkley Josef Preishuber-Pflügl |