Arizona State University President Michael Crow and CEO of Verizon Business Tami Erwin announced the next phase in the ASU/Verizon partnership to bring Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband to the university at the 2022 Smart Region Summit in Tempe, AZ. Through the partnership, the university will move forward with initiatives and services that will ultimately improve access to advanced immersive learning experiences, expand research opportunities, and increase more equitable healthcare, according to the university.
In the first initiative, a “digital equity jam,” sponsored by Verizon, AWS and Inseego, students will develop use cases showcasing how Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute can be used to help bridge the digital divide in health, climate, poverty, human rights and education.
Back in 2020, one of the first Innovation Hubs came to Research Park, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. It used 5G to research machine learning, IoT, robotics, artificial intelligence, guided vehicles, drones, manufacturing process automation, virtual reality, and data analytics.
In addition, Verizon is collaborating with several customers to establish 5G Innovation Hubs on-premises as part of an ongoing initiative to co-innovate and create new 5G applications. In April, the OEM announced a Hub with Oracle at a facility outside of Chicago where they are creating and testing 5G use cases from carbon reduction to worker safety and sustainable buildings.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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