Smart city IoT specialist MARQUEE Wireless MEC provider Veea are partnering to provide MEC based edge AI for smart city applications. The solution will be based on MARQUEE’s SMARTCELL platform supported by Veea’s Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN). The aim is to accelerate introduction of MEC solutions with edge AI as an extension of cellular network infrastructure.

SMARTCELL provides wireless carriers flexibility with ergonomic solutions such as modularity, digital displays with contextual advertising, EV charging stations, kiosks and surveillance cameras. These enable the deployment of Cellular MACRO, MINI-MACRO, and MOBILE EDGE sites enhanced with smart city and IoT Solutions for America’s main streets. MARQUEE has contractual agreements with AT&T and Verizon for deployment of SMARTCELL in urban centres. According to MARQUEE, SMARTCELL offers more capacity and coverage than Small Cell poles because of the large space availability inside the platform. This makes deployment of antennas for massive MIMO with a large number of antenna elements for beamforming in urban centres more practical.

Veea’s MEC middleware enables DePIN architecture and supports Web3 protocols with Veea’s vTBA-based cybersecure peer-to-peer networking, blockchain technology, and decentralised data storage. It supports applications that benefit from federated learning for inferencing and training of mobile-edge “Contextual AI” models together with network slicing over 5G networks.

“It is a pleasure to work with the Veea team to extend the capabilities of our revolutionary, modular SMARTCELL platform for cellular networks and Smart Cities with IoT, Mobile-Edge computing and AI,” said Dimitrios Lalos, MARQUEE’s founder and CEO. “The MARQUEE team is pioneering advancements in the deployment of cellular solutions enhanced with innovative, fully patented technology. Our combined knowledge, expertise and products will make its mark for the cellular industry together with Veea’s first-of-a-kind technologies in AI-driven cybersecure connectivity with network slicing to protect the Smart City endpoints at the edge, and preserve data privacy by processing raw data for innovative applications with Edge AI locally in SMARTCELLs with process automation and energy monitoring for sustainable and efficient urban centres.”

“The notion of a cellular network extended with Edge AI-driven applications is truly revolutionary as it ultimately can allow the cellular industry to capitalise on a range of Smart City edge-managed applications including a wide range of subscription-based Wi-Fi and IoT services with cybersecurity and very low latency,” said Allen Salmasi, co-founder and CEO of Veea.