BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas,
June 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
AT&T* and The Texas A&M
University System's RELLIS Campus will open private 5G
testbeds this fall to public and private sector organizations to
develop and innovate with 5G powered applications and
solutions.
The addition of AT&T's 5G network, with its combination of
lower latency, massive connectivity and fast speeds, is expected to
power a wide range of innovations benefiting defense, commercial
enterprises, and society at large. Commercial customers will have a
chance to access the testbeds to explore autonomous and connected
vehicles, robotics, roadside safety and physical security,
large-scale infrastructure, autonomous agriculture, Internet of
Things, and smart cities/campuses among many other predicted use
cases.
"This new 5G testbed will be one of the most advanced university
based 5G testbeds in the country. Bringing together the private and
public sectors, the RELLIS 5G testbeds can test 5G technologies at
scale utilizing both on road and off-road terrains through 5G
mmWave and Sub-6 frequencies," said Brad
Hoover, Chief Information Officer for The RELLIS Campus.
"These testbeds are being set up to test new approaches to
augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles or any number of
use cases as well as those that have yet to be imagined."
With the addition of 5G, the RELLIS Campus will be home to one
of the large-scale testing and evaluation sites for five of the
Department of Defense's 11 modernization priorities: hypersonics,
artificial intelligence, autonomy, cyber security, and directed
energy.
Texas A&M System state agencies – Texas A&M Engineering
Experiment Station (TEES), Texas A&M Transportation Institute
(TTI), Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), and Texas
A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) will be the first
organizations to use the testbeds. Funding for 5G capability to
equip an Innovation Proving Ground (IPG) as part of the Bush Combat
Development Complex (BCDC) was appropriated to TEES by the 2019
Texas Legislature. Some of the planned use-cases include:
- Autonomous Vehicles and Roadside Safety – Research
in this area will have direct impacts in a variety of fields,
including ground and aviation transportation. Researchers will test
the use of smart intersection grids that allow sensors and human
factors for decision-making on the road; precision navigation so a
vehicle knows its surroundings for safe operations; and precision
agriculture to help farmers determine when and how to fertilize,
plant, and harvest.
- Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) –
Researchers will focus on the military and manufacturing fields.
Within military training environments, AR/VR is expected to be used
to deliver timely and efficient information to soldiers in
real-time environments and in training areas. In manufacturing,
researchers will explore how a machine works with AR for efficient
learning and problem diagnosing.
- Robotics – Robotic applications continue to grow in
the consumer, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Use cases
will focus on how robots function in daily life with physical
barriers, such as doors and stairs, and in human interactions.
Within healthcare, researchers will examine how to improve access
to quality healthcare and surgery in rural areas or other
countries.
Within the 5G testbeds, Texas
A&M will also conduct proactive and reactive
cybersecurity testing to identify vulnerabilities and to help
secure and protect data against outside threats.
"Because RELLIS will soon have 5G capabilities that cover such a
large portion of this campus, RELLIS can provide opportunities to
complete testing and evaluation across all of those domains in a
protected environment," said Kelly
Templin, Director of the RELLIS Campus. "For a company
looking to become a research partner, RELLIS is very much the
gateway to all of this and everything else the Texas A&M System
has to offer."
The RELLIS Campus is 2,000-plus acres that is home to several
Texas A&M System research facilities, a testing and evaluation
site for the George H. W. Bush Combat Development Complex, as well
as facilities for everything from workforce training to four-year
university degrees.
"The 5G testbeds at RELLIS are yet another opportunity for our
customers to explore the potential that AT&T 5G can bring to
help revolutionize the future of multiple industries," said
Jason Porter, President of AT&T
Public Sector and FirstNet. "Their capabilities to bring to life
innovative 5G solutions and applications are transformative. We
expect AT&T 5G – one of the outcomes of our investment of more
than $110 billion in our wireless and
wireline networks from 2016 to 2020 – will help power the future of
defense, government, commercial industry and society."
For more information on how to partner with RELLIS, contact
Brad Hoover at bhoover@tamus.edu and
visit https://rellis.tamus.edu/campus-management/partnerships/.
About the RELLIS Campus
Founded in 2016 by The Texas A&M
University System, the RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, fosters cutting-edge research,
technology development, workforce training and two- and four-year
college degrees by tapping the System's state agencies and multiple
universities, along with academic, corporate and government
partners outside the System.
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