Firetide, a provider of high-performance wireless infrastructure mesh networks, has collaborated with California State University at Monterey Bay (CSUMB) to design and install “the world’s first” permanent outdoor wireless mesh networking facility “dedicated to the research, development and testing of new mobile communications infrastructures.”
According to the company, the Firetide Mobility Test Track (FMTT) “includes a wireless mesh network operating as a high-speed backhaul for the entire facility, plus a separate wireless mesh network for testing a variety of mobile infrastructure designs and concepts for mass transportation, industrial transport systems, and public safety vehicles.” In exchange for receiving permission to build the test track on university land, Firetide will provide the university’s Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) students access for research, testing and training.
According to Duane Zitzner, chief executive officer of Firetide, the new track turns “the difficult and expensive task of conducting mobile communication infrastructure testing and design into an affordable and easily repeatable process within a tightly-controlled outdoor environment.”
The track will provide a number of mobility testing capabilities, including general mobility testing of free roaming vehicles such as police cars and emergency response vehicles, linear mobility testing for fixed route and fixed rail vehicles; antenna qualification testing and mobile link redundancy testing.
For more information, visit Firetide.
