Team 2: Communicate

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Inspiration

Current wireless streaming technology of 2.4-5 GHz is slow and not able to keep up with rapid advancements in video formatting and graphics displays (4k+ technologies). Our project looks to explore 60 GHz wireless communication as a way of data transfer between devices. Our goal is to prove the usability of 60 GHz as a method of wireless data transfer, and to demonstrate both the benefits and the limitations of its use. If it were to see widespread use in the internet, the results would be astonishing. For example, currently, the average internet speed in the United States is around 50 Mbps, but with 60 GHz technology it is possible to increase these speeds to over 1 Gbps (20x faster). This would enable Blu-Ray movie downloads in around 1 minute (currently around 25 minutes), and 4k movie downloads in at most 15 minutes (currently around 5 - 6 hours). We hope that this technology advancement will improve the video streaming as well as other forms of communication.

We are building a full scale communication system in order to demonstrate the basics of this technology. Starting from the ground up, we built circuit boards and antennae to allow us to send basic signals from a transmitter to a receiver.