MWC 2023: Telefónica presents “LaCabina”, a new avant-garde space for technological testing | Economie

Telefónica presented on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona its new project cabin, a space of 2,000 square meters located in the Innovation and Talent Center of the Group at its headquarters in District C of Madrid, with the aim of carrying out tests using the latest technology. The space will be inspired by phone booths and will contain more than 180 technology experiments, some of which were presented two years before their commercial development, according to the company.

In total, more than 750 people took part in this project, which was launched with the participation of athletes Teresa Perales and Carolina Marín. This new element of the Innovation Hub will also have the functionality to hold events, virtual content production, work, training and sectoral environments where the latest technological developments can be seen in an interactive and immersive way.

For this purpose, it has been equipped with 40 kilometers of cable spread and a number of screens totaling 300 million pixels. In addition, it has an exclusive 5G SA network dedicated to space and radio in the medium and millimeter ranges, where technologies such as network segmentation can be tested.

We created cabin So that organizations and institutions can get to know first-hand the latest technologies, participate in pilot projects where they can see how these advances materialize in real applications,” explained Agustín Cárdenas, Business Transformation Manager of Telefónica Spain.

The space will also have a series of trajectories defined by fields such as industry, Smart Retailpeople, education, security, “smart building” also ‘smart cities’. The entire project has been developed by Telefónica and is expected to receive between 7,000 and 10,000 people annually.

“Startup” initiative

Likewise, Telefónica has launched, through Wayra, its open innovation initiative, a global call for research startup companies working on disruptive technologies with applications based on Open Gateway, as announced by Chema Alonso, Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica, during his speech this Tuesday at 4YFN inside the MWC in Barcelona

Open Gateway is the initiative presented by the GSMA at MWC where operators open access to their telecom capabilities to transform their networks into interoperable and programmable platforms through open, unified APIs (protocols for building applications). In this way, access to digital services is facilitated and simplified for developers and creators.

Under the name Open Gateway Activation Programme, Telefónica seeks to accelerate innovation in the sector Telecom Company and promote growth startup companies that have been identified. To achieve this goal, those companies that obtain access will have free and privileged access to the Adopter Program (EAP) launched by Telefónica in collaboration with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Vonage where developers will have exclusive access to a new generation of communication services through interfaces Open, interoperable application programming with real use cases.

Similarly, the startup companies The selected persons will have potential investment opportunities between 100,000 and 5 million euros through Telefónica’s open innovative investment vehicles. Either through Wayra, a Telefónica initiative with a presence in nine countries designed to scale and invest in startups that are ready to scale under the venture capital model and take innovation anywhere in the world, or through Telefónica Ventures, a venture capital vehicle for corporate strategic investments.

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