Innovation
WHERE USE CASES COME TO LIFE
The Future Technologies Headquarters is a space where customers can explore innovative network connectivity options, powering a variety of use-cases and ecosystem partner solutions. Located at our Atlanta, GA campus, our Living Lab (coming soon!) and Innovation Center both provide capabilities to integrate, test, and benchmark a wide range of connectivity and industrial solutions in a real-world environment.
6 Steps of Engagement
Through our six (6) step engagement approach we leverage the Living Lab and Innovation Center 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/Innovation Center
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
INNOVATION CENTER
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
