Announcement, Oct. 9, 2024
There will be a power outage on Monday, October 14th, 2024, affecting the entire Centennial Campus, where most of AERPAW’s facility equipment are located. This will affect every building on campus and is scheduled to last all day long (7 AM – 7 PM). As part of this outage, all AERPAW services will be unavailable from Sunday, October 13th at 5:00 PM.
We will work diligently to restore all services as soon as the power is back, but some of the restoration work might rely on other university services we have to call upon, which might cause delays due to the long service queues for those services. We may not be back to full operations for an extended time, at worst, several days. Please bear with us during this time; we will provide updates as soon as the services return. As always, we remain grateful for your interest in AERPAW and your patience as we continue developing this important facility for your research. Your understanding and patience during this time are greatly appreciated.
Based at NC State, AERPAW—Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless—is the first wireless research platform to study the convergence of 5G technology and autonomous drones. AERPAW is funded by a $24 million grant, awarded by the PAWR Project Office on behalf of the National Science Foundation, to develop an advanced wireless research platform, led by North Carolina State University, in partnership with the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina, Mississippi State University and Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; additional partners include Town of Cary, City of Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Transportation, Purdue University, University of South Carolina, and many other academic, industry and municipal partners.
For experimenters interested in using AERPAW, the User Manual of AERPAW can be accessed here.
