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Project Summary Title: Crane-less IsoTruss Tower Solutions for More Expansive Rural Broadband Coverage Institution: IsoTruss Inc. Principal Investigator: Dr. David W. Jensen As society further develops technologically reliable broadband connections become an increasingly foundational resource used to access business education healthcare public safety and more. Financial burdens and physical isolat ...

PROJECT SUMMARYIsoTruss Inc.Title: Versatile network access through lightweight and durable IsoTruss mobile cell sitesPI: Jensen David W. Institution: IsoTruss Inc.Versatility is an important feature for rural broadband solutions aiming to close thedigital divide and better support the needs of rural communities. Mobile cell sites or cell-on- wheels (COWs) provide temporary connectivity for a host ...

PROJECT SUMMARYIsoTruss Inc.Title: Versatile network access through lightweight space saving and durable IsoTrussmobile cell sitesPI: Jensen David W. Institution: IsoTruss Inc.Even with efforts to expand network coverage there are still 18 million Americanswithout broadband access with nearly a quarter of rural Americans without broadband access.The importance of closing the digital divide in netw ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of western wildfires.The threat to peopleand infrastructure is growing with more population living in the wildland-urban interface.Advances in technology provide the opportunity to improve wildfire mapping accuracy timelinessand dissemination. An un-stabilized airborne fire mapping sensor is proposed utilizing an array ofminiature thermal inf ...

Bulls are a major contributing factor to the reproductive efficiency and economic viability of beefbusinesses. However current speriograms are incomplete subjective and unreliable with notsystem for bull buyers t oeasily access results.Sperm morphology is a critical component offertility evaluation during a breeding soundness examination. Using computer vision artificialintelligence we will create ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of western wildfires.The threat to peopleand infrastructure is growing with more population living in the wildland-urban interface.Advances in technology provide the opportunity to improve wildfire mapping accuracy timelinessand dissemination. An un-stabilized airborne fire mapping sensor is proposed utilizing an array ofminiature thermal inf ...

Reliable Low-Bandwidth Low-Power Mesh Network for Wildfire ManagementNon-Technical Summary:Wildland firefighters typically operate in remote locations and oftenrugged terrain with little to no internet communications access.Keeping track of the firefightersis often difficult especially in an emergency. The firefighters are limited to verbally self- reporting their locations primarily by using two- ...

Rural America has significantly less access to broadband networks and telecominfrastructure. The disparity between network coverage in rural areas versus urban areas isreferred to as the "digital divide." This divide limits those in Rural America in many ways; withthings as simple as inadequate or unreliable means of communication to the more seriousimplications of having limited to no access to a ...

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Rural communities suffer from many obstacles that prevent a constant rate of growthwith one of their most difficult problems being that their isolation makes the delivery set-updeployment and maintenance of new technologies rather difficult. Larger installations requiringthe use of helicopters and cranes to fully deploy such as most modern cell towers are alreadymonumental efforts that require hun ...