The ORBIT Facility

The Rutgers University Wireless Information Networking Laboratory hosts the ORBITfacility, including this indoor lab with 400 programmable radio transceivers laid out in a rectangular pattern. The indoor lab is used to test new mobile computing and communications  technologies.  The ORBIT facility is the world’s largest open, programmable wireless network facility for use by academic and industry researchers worldwide. 

Approximately 200 research teams have conducted more than 5,000 experiments since the lab became widely available to researchers in October 2005. Study topics have included computer networks that can be automatically reconfigured on-demand, networking for security and environmental sensors, vehicular data communications and wireless networking security.

Credit: Carl Blesch, Rutgers