Hoboken: Model City for Advanced Spectrum Sharing

Technologies

R. Chandramouli (Mouli) and K.P. Subbalakshmi (Suba)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

mouli@ieee.org, ksubbala@stevens.edu

City Level Pilot Trials• Hoboken Smart City Project

– Robust connectivity to wireless sensors monitoring water level in Hudson river, for high fidelity flood forecasting, modeling and simulation for emergency planning

• Hoboken PATH, NJ Transit trains and NY Waterway– HD, real-time, interactive mobile video streaming for situational awareness using

multitude of bands (cellular, WiFi, satellites, …)

• MileMesh Project– City level wireless mesh network using roof top mounted wireless routers. Citizen

volunteer powered

• Hoboken-NYC across the river spectrum sharing experiments

Why Hoboken?• Strong support from the Hoboken Mayor, Public Safety and other

stakeholders for this project

• Dense multi-frequency wireless region, combined with NYC and other neighborhood cities fits the large scale requirement

• Strong community involvement for robust wireless communications (e.g., MileMesh network)

• ConnectingNJ broadband initiative of NJ State; Hoboken storm resiliency project ($230 million)

Current Partnerships (exploring more)