As part of a new partnership between UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Information Technology and the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina for a public safety research center, new products and services will be developed from ATSC 3.0/Next Gen TV applications for first responders and public safety response.
Over the past five years, (the WRC’s) IoT-focused organization, RIoT, has convened 85 corporate, university and municipal government partners regularly in the IoT conversation. Representatives from more than 1,200 companies have attended RIoT events and shared how emerging technologies are impacting their businesses.
“We’re closer to commercialization than we are to fundamental research,” (Founder and CEO Gerry Hayes) explained. “We will actually bridge that gap of what companies need to have done, and what is viable to go into a product.”
The Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT’IS) in Zurich, Switzerland in partnership with WRC are now testing and validating a POPEYE (human model) in WRC’s anechoic chamber. “We believe the relationship with the WRC allows us to be proactive in understanding the challenge of testing these devices, and more importantly, better understanding the performance of these devices across multiple market segments.”
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (June 6, 2019) – Asokan Ram has joined the Wireless Research Center as senior architect. He brings three decades of wireless networking experience including satellite, aviation and defense communication systems, expanding the engineering services available to clients worldwide.
Asokan has 25 patents and was recognized with Sony Ericsson’s Distinguished Inventor Award, Ixia Engineering Master Award, and Ixia Technical Excellence Award. “Asokan supplements our deep radio frequency and antenna expertise with broad wireless systems knowledge deeper into the network platform hardware and software,” said Gerard Hayes, Wireless Research Center (WRC) […]
What: Discover the IoT trends impacting – and poised to disrupt – the sports and entertainment industries.
RIoT, a community of technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers and entrepreneurs who have a role in the Internet of Things of connected devices, will recap the flexible network that powered the Atlanta Super Bowl. Panelists will also spotlight the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks smart beer taps and look at technology that will shape the experience at future sports and entertainment events.
The discussion will include smart stadiums, flexible crowd-proof networks, sensor-backed inventory management, responsive data analytics, event access control and […]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC (February 20, 2019) — UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina announces a groundbreaking partnership with the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NC DIT) and the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina (WRC) that will develop and operate a public safety research center. This breakthrough center will be tasked with developing and testing new products and services for first responders, beginning with innovative applications for ATSC 3.0/Next Gen TV to improve public safety response.
This new partnership consists of UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina and its Chief Technology Officer Fred Engel, focusing […]
