Verizon today announced two separate 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) partnerships in the higher education space. The carrier deployed its edge compute platform, artificial intelligence (AI) technology and mmWave — branded as 5G Ultra Wideband — service at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) to support drone weather detection and response. At Penn State, researchers will use 5G Ultra Wideband to explore new applications in manufacturing education, training and workforce development.
The lab at Caltech lab features a three-story-tall aerodrome with more than 2,500 tiny computer-controlled fans to recreate the ever-shifting environmental conditions that drones face in the real world. Engineers are able to simulate everything from “a light gust to a gale.”
