AT&T announced yesterday they will partner with Texas A&M University at the RELLIS Campus and open private 5G testbeds this fall to public and private sector organizations to develop and innovate with 5G powered applications and solutions. Commercial customers will have a chance to access the testbeds to explore autonomous and connected vehicles, robotics, roadside safety and physical security, large-scale infrastructure, autonomous agriculture, Internet of Things, and smart cities/campuses among many other predicted use cases.
The campus will be home to one of the large-scale testing and evaluation sites for five of the Department of Defense’s 11 modernization priorities: hypersonics, artificial intelligence, autonomy, cyber security, and directed energy.
“This new 5G testbed will be one of the most advanced university based 5G testbeds in the country. Bringing together the private and public sectors, the RELLIS 5G testbeds can test 5G technologies at scale utilizing both on road and off-road terrains through 5G mmWave and Sub-6 frequencies,” said Brad Hoover, Chief Information Officer for The RELLIS Campus. “These testbeds are being set up to test new approaches to augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles or any number of use cases as well as those that have yet to be imagined.”
Texas A&M System state agencies – Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas Division of Emergency Management, and Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service will be the first organizations to use the testbeds. Funding for 5G capability to equip an Innovation Proving Ground as part of the Bush Combat Development Complex was appropriated to TEES by the 2019 Texas Legislature.
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