TU / e opens lab for research on wireless – Computable

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The number of devices connected wirelessly, will in the years to come explosively increasing, including through the internet of things . Alone in each house will involve dozens of devices and sensors. For that wireless communication all at once, quick and error-free run smoothly, new technology is needed. The TU / e has therefore built new laboratories, CWTe Labs, which will be officially opened Monday, August 31, 2015

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CWTe stands for the Center for Wireless Technology Eindhoven, the bundled TU / e knowledge of wireless technology. The new labs of CWTe along about seven hundred square meters, covering virtually the entire eighth floor of the new university building Flux. “We have the most integrated wireless lab in Europe, ‘says CWTe director and professor Peter Baltus. “We have all the labs and disciplines together that you need to study wireless systems as a whole, and that’s quite unique.”

Canned lab

A special feature of the laboratory is, inter alia, that they are completely electromagnetically shielded from the outside world, in order to avoid distortions, for example, by telephone traffic. “We have the entire lab or less canned,” says Baltus. Thanks to use of special windows, which are against electromagnetic fields, there is enough daylight. Further, the temperature is fully stable and there is substantially no static electricity. All this to ensure accurate and reliable measurements.

The CWTe working on a number of major research programs. One of them aims to achieve in 2020 Wi-Fi 1 Tb (1 terabit, or 1 000 Gb) per second. That is about a thousand times faster than the current Wi-Fi. This is sorely needed, says Professor Baltus, because there are more and more wireless devices on the network, and all of which must be quickly connected and they should also not interfere with each other. “Faster, cheaper and more efficient, which is what we continue to work,” the director CWTe

Wireless Sensors

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There appear alongside more Devices also newcomers led by the network: wireless sensors. Tiny, inexpensive sensors that require little or no power. They get their energy from the radio waves from the wireless network. The development of these types of sensors is the second major CWTe research program. For example miniscule temperature sensors, which measure the temperature in each room, where no thread is involved in.

The third major focus of CWTe is the development of terahertz technology. Terahertz stands for thousand billion cycles per second. With this promising electromagnetic frequencies, the researchers hope to develop small and inexpensive technology, such as its sharp medical imaging and weapon detection.

The CWTe Labs not only for personal use by the TU / e. Companies can also make use of it. Baltus “We hope that more companies will do research with us.”