Six ways higher education is advancing 5G
The 5G mobile standard is expected to one day provide the backbone for “smart” infrastructure, including near-instantaneous data sharing, high-definition video streaming, autonomous vehicles and facial recognition.
Here are a few of the most innovative 5G projects and test beds at universities that are supporting students on their campuses and furthering research on the next generation of wireless technology.
1. 5G tractors
In 2019, Purdue University researchers worked with their contemporaries at North Carolina State University to build a National Science Foundation-funded specialized wireless network to turn farm machinery, like tractors, into internet of things tools. For example, installing specialized network equipment to a tractor can transmit the location, fuel consumption, temperature, pressure, hitch position, amount of slip and more to a farmer’s cell phone.
National honor help Professor Shannon Gleeson as she continues her research on the impact of immigration status on worker precarity, especially in the era of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial inequality.
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New spray protocol improves delivery of nasal antiseptic to reduce COVID-19 infection
A trip to visit family in Kolkata, India, put South Dakota State University assistant professor Saikat Basu in the middle of that country s second wave of COVID-19 infections. However, it also gave the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty member a unique opportunity to improve delivery of an antiseptic nasal spray that may help reduce the risk of infection.
Basu s research involves modeling the transport of aerosols, including virus-carrying droplets, in the human respiratory tract. To become infected, you must first inhale the virus, so inhalation patterns are important, Basu explained.