MWC 2026 | NIDA Joins Forces with WAA to Open a New Chapter for the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Ecosystem Organization.
【Barcelona, Spain, March 3】 During MWC 2026 (Mobile World Congress 2026), Yiou, Deng , Secretary-General of NIDA, attended the WLAN Global Industry Forum 2026 and participated in the inauguration ceremony of the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization.Attendees at the ceremony included:Ping Zhang , Chairman of WAA; Adolfo Borrero, Chairman of the Smart City Committee of AMETIC;Tayeb Ben Meriem, Vice President of the IPv6 Forum; Shaoqi Zhao , President of Campus Network Domain, Huawei Data Communication Product Line; Shavkat Sabirov, President of the Internet Association of Kazakhstan; Xiasheng Zhang , CEO of Shenzhen Huazhao Technology Co., Ltd; Zhenhua Wei, Director of the Europe, Africa and CIS Market of Bit Intelligent.The event officially marks that the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization has entered a substantial development stage.
Above: Inauguration ceremony of the WLAN Intelligent Sensing Industry Ecosystem Organization at MWC 2026.
Jointly initiated by WAA and NIDA, the ecosystem organization aims to unite industrial forces from various countries and regions, and strengthen the innovation and wide application of WLAN intelligent sensing technologies in relevant scenarios. Committed to taking AI as the core driving force, it will build an open and win-win ecosystem based on the IoT sensing capabilities brought by IEEE 802.11be.The ecosystem is first compatible with IoT cards or built-in IoT module solutions from the IEEE 802.11ac/ax era, and adds CSI (Channel State Information) and millimeter-wave radar technologies, empowering traditional connection-focused WLAN with powerful AI IoT sensing applications.
The core of CSI sensing lies in using the propagation characteristics of wireless signals and analyzing channel state information to obtain information such as object movement and position changes in the environment. This technology benefits from several factors:First, Wi-Fi communication systems are continuously evolving toward higher frequency bands, larger antenna arrays and miniaturization, making them increasingly consistent with wireless sensing systems in hardware architecture, channel characteristics and signal processing, providing a hardware foundation for sensing technology.Second, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence and signal processing algorithms, the accuracy and efficiency of extracting useful information from CSI data have been significantly improved.Third, scenarios such as intelligent energy saving, intelligent transportation and intelligent security are growing in demand for real-time sensing and communication, presenting obvious cost advantages over traditional sensing technologies such as radar and cameras.
Millimeter-wave radar technology is also entering a stage of rapid development in large-scale applications in healthcare, elderly care and other scenarios. The integration of WLAN and millimeter-wave radar technology has become the optimal solution.
To unleash the technical advantages of the new IoT sensing capabilities, adaptation with terminals and applications in industry scenarios such as office energy saving, medical and elderly care, asset management and smart hotels is required. Therefore, an ecological cooperation organization is essential to achieve end-to-end ecological collaboration, gradually improve interface standards and compliance specifications between WLAN, southbound terminals and northbound application platforms, and promote the deployment standards for various scenarios.
WAA and NIDA will work closely together, unite relevant global organizations and industrial chain resources, and strive to build a complete and efficient WLAN IoT sensing ecosystem.
