Dr Shariati leads the $1.7 million R&D project 'Sustainable Sensing, Enhanced Connectivity, and Data Analytics for Precision Urban and Rural Agriculture' with NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) and Food Agility CRC
Negin Shariati, Co-Director of RF and Communication Technologies (RFCT) Lab at FEIT in collaboration with QUT and Zetifi has been awarded the "ARC Training Centre for Automated Vehicles in Rural and Remote Regions". Negin Shariati will lead a team of researchers in developing advanced Antennas, RF systems, and Communication technologies for vehicles in remote areas as part of the ARC, ITTC.
The Farm-wide Wi-Fi Project involves Australian agtech company Zetifi working alongside researchers at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Charles Sturt University as part of a new Food Agility CRC research collaboration to provide farm-wide internet coverage. The team (Dr Keshavarz and Dr Shariati) is developing technology to solve connectivity problems in areas with little or no mobile coverage to provide fast and reliable connectivity that increases productivity, profitability, safety and quality of life.
This is the first project to be announced as part of the Global Digital Farm, Australia’s first ‘hands-free farm’ at Wagga Wagga, where the technology will be trialled and tested.
UTS researchers will design and develop novel RF and antenna technologies that will be fitted to mobile and stationary farming enabling long-range connectivity in rural areas. This will be an Australian-designed solution, made for Australian conditions to deliver connectivity wherever it’s needed on the farm.
