The Georgia Institute of Technology has devised a revolutionary tile-based technique for building arrays of 5G+ enabled’smart skins.’ Scientific Reports is the publication where the study was published. The suggested technology has the potential to provide 5G+ capabilities to a variety of applications, including smart cities, drones, and IoT.
The suggested method entails placing pre-fabricated tiles atop a flexible layer that serves as a flexible foundation layer for the tiles.
This architecture makes it simple to establish massive 5G+ steerable antenna array networks on any structure, such as a skyscraper or an airplane. The researchers created a flexible 5x5cm tile array for the proof-of-concept (POC) and utilized it to span a 3.5cm radius curvature. Read also: Amazfit GTS 2 Mini 2022 in India: Check Price | Specification | Offers
With the advent of IoT and Sector 4.0, a greater data rate is critical, and the suggested study has the potential for immediate, wide-scale use in the telecommunications industry for quicker, higher-capacity, and lower-latency communications. The team intends to put the method to the test outside of the lab. The team is currently working on bigger, completely inkjet-printed tile arrays.
“The tile architecture’s mass scalability allows it to be used in a wide range of applications,” Tentzeris stated. “From dams and buildings to machines and automobiles, down to individual health-monitoring devices.” Read also: Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 Launched in India
“Everything will be coated in some sort of wireless conformal smart skin including electrically steerable antenna arrays of widely varying sizes that will enable for effective monitoring,” says the researcher.
Source: Nature