The Techtile measurement infrastructure is a multi-functional, versatile testbed for new communication and sensing technologies relying on fine-grained distributed resources. The facility enables experimental research on hyper-connected interactive environments and validation of new wireless connectivity, sensing and positioning solutions. It consists of a data acquisition and processing equipment backbone and a fabric of dispersed edge computing devices, Software-Defined Radios, sensors, and LED sources. These bring intelligence close to the applications and can also collectively function as a massive, distributed resource. Furthermore, the infrastructure allows exploring more degrees and new types of diversity, i.e., scaling up the number of elements, introducing `3D directional diversity' by deploying the distributed elements with different orientations, and `interface diversity' by exploiting multiple technologies and hybrid signals (RF, acoustic, and visible light).
@article{arxiv.2105.06740,
title = {A Primer on Techtile: An R&D Testbed for Distributed Communication, Sensing and Positioning},
author = {Gilles Callebaut and Jarne Van Mulders and Geoffrey Ottoy and Liesbet Van der Perre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.06740},
year = {2021}
}
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has been accepted at the 41stWIC Symposium On Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux (SITB 2021)