Ericsson today announced a collaboration with Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of industry partners, to explore and advance the use of 5G drone operation for smart agriculture applications.
The pair conducted a demonstration at North Carolina State University using AERPAW’s mid-band spectrum (3.4 gigahertz), a custom drone equipped with a connected camera and local compute capacity. The drone’s job was to monitor a field of cattle for information on grazing patterns. The footage was streamed over a 5G connection enabled by an Ericsson base station and Ericsson Cloud Packet Core network.
