US Ignite said it will start construction of a dedicated 4G/5G network for IoT research at Fort Carson, Colorado, a US Army installation. The network is part of the Fort Carson Smart Transportation Testbed, a USD 4 million project run by US Ignite, with funding and management from the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Partners in deployment include network design firm Tilson and JMA Wireless. Federated Wireless is providing its Spectrum Controller, which the network will use to access shared Citizens Broadband Radio Spectrum (CBRS).
The new network at Fort Carson will initially support the upload of vehicle data from the Army installation’s Mountain Express Automated Shuttle, as well as video traffic from route-monitoring cameras. In the long term, the network is designed for broader IoT research – including environmental analysis with air quality and weather sensors – that is planned as part of a collaborative initiative among Fort Carson, the city of Colorado Springs, and the University of Colorado Boulder.
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