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Tuesday, February 04, 2020

MIT Smart Surface Improves WiFi

From the images , seems it may be difficult to install, but having a more universal surface could be quite useful for smart home and business installations.

MIT's 'Smart Surface' Could Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal Tenfold   By Engadget

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed a prototype "smart surface" that can concentrate wireless radio signals to maximize reception.

The RFocus device has more than 3,000 minuscule antennas arranged by software into optimal receptive configurations, with control enabled via central beamforming rather than through transmitters and client devices. RFocus can improve signal strength nearly 10-fold without any signal amplification, and could potentially strengthen longer-ranged connections for Wi-Fi as well as high-band 5G.

The CSAIL researchers hope to find a way to produce the smart surface at scale, preferably as a thin, wireless "wallpaper." ..... '

From Engadget 

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