The Swansea Amateur Radio Society and IET Wales South West Local Community are pleased to announce that our next event will be a talk from Associate Professor Dr Amit Mehta on  Adaptive space antennas and their modern communications and environment applications. The talk will be delivered in Room 002 in the IQ Building at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David SA1 Innovation Quarter, Swansea​ at 7:00 pm and there will be refreshments before the talk starting at 6:30. Registration is not compulsory but it helps us to plan catering for the refreshments. You can register via the IET Events system here: https://communities.theiet.org/communities/events/item/470/77/24782.

 
About the Talk


Space communications are the key for tons of future man-kind needs. Americans even say that if ‘you control space then you control the world’. From a civilian and environment standpoint, due to technology advancements for the first time, it is now possible to have a planar, low-cost and a high-performance communication system for Satellite-based networking. Swansea University’s Antenna lab is working on multimillion £ state of the art space communications projects with Airbus, European Space Agency, Satellite Catapult and MBDA. In this talk Associate Prof. Amit Mehta will provide an overview of the inventiveness of these projects and a bigger picture on their possible impacts. In terms of applications  he will cover areas of Internet of Things (IOT), High Throughput Communications on Moving Vehicles, 5G on Planes, Navigation and Weather predictions.

About the Speaker


Associate Prof. Amit Mehta, Senior Member IEEE, is the Director of the antenna group at Swansea University. He leads a strong team for producing industry-focused space antenna RF solutions. He has over 150 international publications in the area of smart and beam-adaptive antennas. He is a global speaker in this field and has been invited from USA-Australia to provide keynote speeches. Recently his team won the best paper award at the prestigious  European Space Agency Antenna workshop (October 2019).