LIVING LAB
WHERE USE CASES COME TO LIFE
The Future Technologies Headquarters is a space where customers can explore a multitude of innovative network connectivity options. Our Living Lab is a dynamic environment designed for integration, testing, and benchmarking of a diverse range of connectivity solutions. The Living Lab offers a real-world setting to experience and evaluate the performance, reliability, and scalability of cutting-edge network technologies, displaying various use-cases and ecosystem partner solutions.
6 Steps of Engagement
Through our six (6) step engagement approach we leverage the Living Lab to help our clients bridge from ideation to productization.
1. Virtual Demo
Use Case & Business Case Review
- Virtual Demo: Compute, Connectivity, Use Cases
- Define Use Cases
- Business Case Review
- Conceptual Network Design
- ROM Budget Pricing and Bill of Material
2. Living Lab
Virtuals, In Person, At Customer Site
- Innovation Center Demo
- Living Lab Demo
- Technology Demo & Overview
- Use Case Demo & Overview
- Technical Workshop
- Next Steps Discussion
3. Field Demo
- Field suite case demo at customer location
- On-premise network technology overview
- Technology Demo
- Use Case Demo
- Performance Analysis
- POC Scoping
- Next Steps Discussion
4. Proof of Concept
- Detail Network Design
- Smart Supply Chain
- Network Installation and commissioning
- Network Performance Validation
- Network Optimization
- Use Case Validation
- Staff Training
5. Production Deployment
- Detail Network Design
- Smart Supply Chain
- Network Installation and Commissioning
- Network Performance Validation
- Network Optimization
- Acceptance Testing
- Staff Training
6. SLA Support
- Network Sustainment Support
- Network Preventative Maintenance
- Corrective Maintenance
Technology
- Edge Compute
- LAN (Wired - Fiber, Copper)
- Wi-Fi 6
- Private LTE – Core & Radio
- 5G – Roadmap Q3 ’21 – Core & Radio
- Facebook Terragraph – 60 GHz
- Fiber extension solution
- LoRaWAN
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- End Points – Sensors, Tablet, Phone, Hands Free (Realwear headgear)
Use Cases
- Remote Expert (Librestream, Realwear)
- Computer Vision (Megh Computing)
- Asset Health
- IoT Sensors
- UAV/Drone
- Auto-Guided Vehicles
Industrial Lab Capabilities
- ~10,000 square foot warehouse/industrial facility
- 35-foot ceiling height with configurable metal storage racks
- 3 loading docks and outdoor trailer parking lot at rear of facility
- Multiple connectivity options: Wi-Fi 6, Private Cellular (4G, CBRS, 5G)
- Connectivity to edge infrastructure, local datacenter, Internet, and cloud providers
- Network monitoring and simulation tools for testing bandwidth, latency, RF interference, etc.
- Targeted Industry 4.0 use-cases and ecosystem partner solution demonstrations
Technology Partners
