FIGURE 4. Test road at The Green Village, with three of the five roadside transmitting antennas (TX-3 to TX-5) as indicated. In the foreground, the receiver antenna is mounted on a trolley.

Innovation: A terrestrial networked positioning system

May 14, 2022

Combining Fiber Optics and Wideband Radio

A team of researchers has developed a system that uses White Rabit to achieve decimeter-level position accuracy in multipath environments.

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This article is tagged with Delft, fiber network, Fiber-optic technology, multipath, terrestrial networked positioning system, The Netherlands, TNPS, White Rabbit, White Rabbit network and posted in From the Magazine, Innovation

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It’s about time for the electrical grid

April 1, 2022

On March 24, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released information about a program designed to provide resilient […]

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This article is tagged with dark fiber, David Wells, Department of Energy, DOE, electrical grid, fiber, fiber network, Marc Weiss, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, time signals, timing and posted in Featured Stories, Latest News, Timing