CENGN and its living lab partners provide specialized physical layer testing services for your cutting-edge innovation. Whether developing autonomous technologies, deploying IoT-enabled sensors, or working with robotics, CENGN’s testing services ensure your solutions meet performance standards, regulatory requirements, and safety protocols.
Get access to commercial, non-competitive locally licensed, and experimental spectrum bands with flexible testing environments to prove your 5G-based solution works reliably without the risk or cost of a failed deployment.
Test your autonomous vehicle solution across 16km of roadways, urban intersections, and harsh weather conditions with V2X connectivity. Get expert support from device-level validation to complete system integration.
Available at: The Smart Mobility and Smart Agriculture Living Lab (Powered by Area X.O in Ottawa, Ontario)Test human-robot and robot-robot interactions with mm-accurate tracking, real-world scenarios, and Canada’s top robotics researchers to validate safety and performance.
Available at: The Connected Robotics Living Lab (Powered by the University of Waterloo's RoboHub and Rogers in Waterloo, ON)Validate your solution’s integration, performance, and resilience in controlled and real-world environments with diverse LoRaWAN, 5G, and LTE connectivity options.
Test functionality, durability, and performance across diverse indoor/outdoor environments. From farm fields to urbanized environments, access expert guidance to ensure proper mobility, sensing, navigation, and manipulation capabilities.
Test functionality, safety, and performance across indoor/outdoor environments. Access expert support for autonomous and remotely operated testing from basic mobility to beyond-visual-line-of-site operations.
Currently supported by the Canadian Government’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) helps startups and scaleups bring their solutions to market. CENGN provides the resources and technical expertise to test and validate their innovative solutions while developing tech talent through its internship programs.
Since 2014, CENGN’s programs have created nearly 12,000 Canadian jobs, contributed $1.15 billion to Canada’s GDP, supported over 300 internships with a 97% employment rate, and completed over 230 commercialization projects to build Canada’s position and expertise in the global technology landscape.
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