Our driving vision is to provide under-resourced urban communities with cost-effective wireless access networks, mobile access, and transformational applications including health sensing.
Our project's objective is to develop fundamental information technology advances that will provide new quality-of-life opportunities for under-resourced communities, enabling new IT-driven capabilities in education, healthcare, and employment. With rapid advances in wireless technology, we are at a critical juncture in shaping our nation's wireless and IT future and determining whether the unique needs of underserved communities are met. Consequently, we will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of our research and societal objectives at scale and provide a replicable and sustainable template of what is possible in under-resourced urban communities.
We are developing low-cost infrastructure that serves as a platform for research and societal change. Our platform's key innovations are:
- a multi-tier wireless access network with fully programmable and observable nodes that will serve over 4,000 users in over 4 square kilometers, a density surpassing all research deployments,
- a fully instrumented and deployed mobile computing platform that enables joint assessment of user behavior and end system performance, and
- a deployed wireless health-sensing platform that monitors and processes physiological data and seamlessly interconnects with the mobile-computing and wireless access platforms.
