Wi-Fi may be coming soon to a lamppost near you
As Wi-Fi is deployed more widely in cities, and perhaps at higher frequencies, it may depend on an abundant urban asset: streetlight poles.
May 3, 2022
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News tagged with wireless systems
Telecom
Millimeter wave and sub-terahertz spatial statistical channel model for an indoor office building
Driven by ubiquitous usage of mobile devices and the explosive growth and diversification of the Internet of Things (IoT), sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems will need to offer unprecedented high data rate and system ...
Apr 5, 2021
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Internet
The modern world is fast becoming a wireless, infrared world
Optics-based technologies such as optical fibers have strongly influenced the age of wired communication. Now they look set to revolutionize wireless communications as well and solve key issues with traditional radio-based ...
Jun 4, 2020
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Antenna system with tenfold speedup in data transmit and receive rates
The use of wireless devices is exploding. Statista, an international research service, estimated in March 2019 that roughly 13 billion mobile devices (e.g., phones, tablets, laptops) were in use worldwide, and Gartner, a ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Engineering
Your body has internet—and now it can't be hacked
Someone could hack into your pacemaker or insulin pump and potentially kill you, just by intercepting and analyzing wireless signals. This hasn't happened in real life yet, but researchers have been demonstrating for at least ...
Mar 12, 2019
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Software
New 'Furion' software allows untethered, high-quality VR
The virtual reality industry is faced with a conundrum: Users must be tethered to a server or PC in order to play high-quality apps.
Oct 31, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
May Google cars on the move one day roll over transmitters in ground for juice?
Self-driving cars may one day take a direction away from wires that are needed to plug in for charging.
Telecom
Field campaign assesses vulnerabilities of 5G networks
Fifth-generation, or 5G, mobile network technology is all the hype these days. Compared to 4G, this newest way of connecting wireless devices to cellular networks is designed to provide higher data rates, ultralow latency, ...
Aug 8, 2023
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Security
A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
Skyrocketing vehicle theft rates in some U.S. cities have drawn attention to an inconvenient truth: the increasing amount of technology in our vehicles can make them increasingly vulnerable to hacking or theft.
Jul 17, 2023
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Internet
A silicon photonic modulator supporting the 800G standard for high-speed data transmission
In wireless communication, G stands for "generation" as in 4G, 5G, 6G. When it comes to data rate in optical communications though, "G" stands for gigabits per second (Gbps), and the progression doubles, as in 100G, 200G, ...
Jun 14, 2023
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