Services & Facilities

How can we help you?

Proof-of-Concept and Prototype Implementations

We can build experimental systems to evaluate new ideas and approaches that can advance the current state-of-the-art.

Test-Bed Formation, Operation, and Maintenance

We can construct hardware test-beds of systems and networks, operate them for a variety of scenarios, and keep them maintained.

Technical Studies/Literature Reviews

We can conduct comprehensive assessments of technologies across markets and in peer-review literature to gain better understandings of trends.

Debugging and Verification

We can methodically analyze existing systems for various faults and errors that might be occurring in the implementation.

Measurement Campaigns

We can gather measurement date across varied technologies and conditions to provide insights into operational environments and system configurations.

Market Research

We can conduct detailed analyses of the latest technologies and products with respect to their impacts on target economies or populations.

Areas of expertise

We possess expertise across a wide range of disciplines under the umbrella of the “Smart World,” including the following:

Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access
Connected and autonomous vehicles
Navigation and localization
Satellite communications
5g and next generation networks and communications
Internet of things/device-to-device communications
Machine learning
Aerial/drone networks

With our core strength in electrical and computer engineering, we can also handle projects centered in other disciplines such as computer science, robotics engineering, physics, and many others. Applied Comms Lab transcends traditional academic stovepipes to provide the best services to our member companies.

Facilities and equipment

Applied Comms Lab is centered in a newly renovated 1200-square-foot lab featuring a broad spectrum of wireless prototyping, design, and testing equipment.

Members also have access to equipment in our faculty labs and the WPI Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, including a large array of software defined radio platforms, spectrum analyzers, a 12' x 12' x 7' anechoic chamber, and a 10' x 10' x 7' faraday cage.