On September 30, Samsung Electronics was awarded the 2019 ‘Best Wi-Fi Innovation Award’ by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). The honor was bestowed upon Samsung’s Galaxy S10 for its Intelligent Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi 6 improvements, making it the primary smartphone to ever obtain the award.
The Galaxy S10’s Intelligent Wi-Fi makes use of machine studying to make sure that customers’ Wi-Fi connections are each sensible and protected. The innovation permits the machine to acknowledge when a consumer has entered an area the place Wi-Fi connections are more likely to be unstable, and robotically change to LTE connectivity to keep away from community interruption. What’s extra, Intelligent Wi-Fi permits the machine to extra shortly detect weaker Wi-Fi alerts in locations like elevators, permitting it to transition from Wi-Fi to LTE connectivity far more shortly. Upon connecting to a brand new community, the perform even permits the machine to investigate visitors patterns and notify customers if the community is suspicious, thus defending them from risks resembling phishing and malware assaults.
The Galaxy S10’s Wi-Fi 6 functionality offers smartphone assist for subsequent technology know-how, boosting obtain and add speeds by as much as 20 p.c in comparison with earlier generations of Wi-Fi. When customers are in crowded areas the place Wi-Fi alerts would normally be gradual and unstable, Wi-Fi 6 permits for community connections which can be about 4 instances sooner than these skilled by customers of older Wi-Fi generations connecting in the identical location. And surprisingly, this added velocity and reliability really makes use of much less battery energy, no more, permitting customers to preserve energy for after they want it.
The WBA Industry Awards have been honoring exceptional developments in Wi-Fi ecosystems globally for the previous seven years. The awards acknowledge distinctive improvements in wi-fi networks, sensible cities and distant wi-fi deployments within the pursuits of recognizing and inspiring excellence and selling profitable practices. Each shortlisted nomination is featured in a WBA Case Study in order that the innovation could also be shared with the broader business.
The ‘Best Wi-Fi Innovations’ class acknowledges community operators and know-how corporations whose options are post-deployment, and “recognizes and celebrates innovations and deployments with Wi-Fi, which enable seamless and secure support, greater interoperability and/or transformational benefits to customers.”
Speaking in regards to the current awards win, Jong-Mu Choi, Head of Convergence R&D Group at Samsung Electronics mentioned, “Samsung is proud that its Wi-Fi innovations have been recognized in such a way. The company will keep working to enable its devices to make use of these new Wi-Fi capabilities, so that the improved usability therein reaches consumers as quickly as possible. One example of this is the Galaxy Note10’s recent accreditation as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™, which saw it join the Galaxy S10 as one of Samsung’s certified Wi-Fi 6-capable devices. Going forward, Samsung looks forward to utilizing faster, smarter Wi-Fi connections as the foundation that will allow it to continue bringing added convenience to users.”
