Ericsson offers ‘remote excavation’ technology for New Suez Canal projects

Isil Yalcin, Ericsson’s North East Africa President, presented Sunday the company’s “Remote Excavation” technology, the latest innovative solutions by Ericsson that can be used in Suez Canal Axis Development Projects.

The main idea behind the “Remote Excavation” technology resides in its ability to use real time web-based communications (WebRTC) and Real Time Video technologies.

The machine can be controlled via a remote control from miles away. This produces requirements that will test the network’s capabilities, as well as the applications providing the complete solution, according to an Ericsson statement Sunday.

Ericsson has already used the real-time communications framework developed at Ericsson Research to rapidly implement the end-to-end solution to send the sound and video from the excavator to the operator and sending the controls to the excavator, Yalcin said.

Moreover, a model excavator machine was used with a standard mobile phone replete with a 360-degree lens mounted on top.

“Using our real-time communication framework and WebRTC API, we developed an application to capture this 360-degree video, capture audio, compress both streams and send them to the operator,” Yalcin added.

Meanwhile, 40% of global mobile traffic runs through networks supplied by Ericsson, while more than 1 billion subscribers around the world rely every day on networks that managed by Ericsson.