The practice of depending on technologies keeps increasing in our day-to-day activities and the concept has been evolving better in many ways. We used to get our work done easily with the help of technological applications. Internet of Things (IoT) has been evolving faster in many industries with its stupendous benefits. IoT in simple terms means connecting day-to-day things or items digitally. Cornell University has designed the first nation’s statewide Internet of things for New York.
Cornell University’s Researchers and Engineers are working keenly on changing New York into a full-fledged digital city. The public accessible IoT project is designed to increase the availability of Internet access to New York citizens. The Project was funded 1.5 million dollars by the National Science Foundation and a range of Connected communities to implement the Internet of things over public space. It targets to implement public IoT network access covering 62 counties of New York. Cornell along with New York Community Partners from each county has collaborated together to set up Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technology.
The project goal is to enhance the feasibility of Internet access and to promote IoT adoption statewide. The ultimate aim of setting up the nation’s statewide Internet of Things is to provide Universal network coverage, scaling up to the Internet of Things, upgrading rural areas to digital, and providing IoT technology accessible to all parts of New York. The LPWAN will be deployed along with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE). Cornell University researchers are working keenly on this project and estimated a tentative of 3 years to finish it off. They are trying their best to vanish the digital gap between the state’s urban and rural areas.
The LPWAN network can be used for a wide range of applications which includes observing traffic remotely by the Government, Farmers makes use of crop or livestock sensors in fields, flood monitoring, Road monitoring, providing real-time information, etc. It will be utilized effectively for long-range, low-bandwidth, low-power applications. This project will benefit rural areas to the maximum due to the lack of digital development over there. They are not able to access the network from their location. Lacking digital experience in rural areas ultimately creates disparities in terms of Social, Educational, Informational, and the economy as well. To break the disparities and to level up both Urban and Rural Areas of New York digitally, the idea of deploying IoT technology and Internet access statewide has evolved.
