INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
SOOGREEN Project and
Flexenclosure win CELTIC
Excellence Award
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T
he SOOGREEN consortium has won
the CELTIC Excellence Award for
Network Technologies. Flexenclosure
is a key participant in the SOOGREEN
project – Service-Oriented Optimization
of Green Mobile Networks – contributing
world-class expertise in energy efficient
battery charging technologies.
At the CELTIC Event in Valencia on June 19
– co-located with the European Conference
on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)
and the Global 5G event – the SOOGREEN
project won the CELTIC Award for its
outstanding work in reducing the energy
consumption of services in different mobile
network architectures. Key achievements
were an increase in the energy efficiency
of wireless networks and the reduction of
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greenhouse gas emissions, both of which will
deliver significant environmental, economic
and social benefits. Flexenclosure is a world leader in energy
efficient power systems for telecom networks
in emerging markets.
“We have achieved new benchmarks for
lithium battery energy utilisation, the
implications of which are profound both
for on- and off-grid applications,” said
Tomas Rahkonen, CTO, Flexenclosure.
“We are looking forward to continuing our
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A core participant in SOOGREEN,
Flexenclosure collaborated with 13 companies
from four countries and contributed vital
expertise and insights in the area of energy
efficient battery charging technologies. The programme facilitates bottom-up
projects, thus offering the chance of both
evolutionary as well as disruptive innovation
in all relevant ICT areas, without limiting
their creativity and ambition. n
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