ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 5G Living Lab
Test your Innovations in a Digital Sandbox
The ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 5G Living Lab gives researchers, innovators and their industry & community partners access to a virtual 5G sandbox. The Lab makes use of TELUS’ next-generation telecommunications infrastructure to accelerate the development of leading-edge, customer-ready solutions across a variety of fields.
Connected devices, including autonomous drones, smart glasses and wearables (among others), can all be tested in this sandbox.
5G Network
The Lab’s private, commercial-scale 5G network at North and South Campus helps innovators trial their innovations and refine them in a ‘living lab’ environment.
Mobile Edge Computing
Access to mobile edge computing provides teams with the low-latency computing power and infrastructure needed to advance solutions to real-world problems.
Partnership Framework
The Lab’s unique partnership framework brings partners and collaborators to the table, helping to move forward innovative solutions.
Access the 5G Living Lab
The ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ 5G Living Lab is open to researchers and innovators as well as industry collaborators and community partners. Apply to gain access to the next-generation infrastructure you need to accelerate your innovation journey.
ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Researchers & Innovators
For researchers and innovators at the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥, the 5G Living Lab provides access to tools and resources that can help accelerate your research and innovation work.
Industry & Community Partners
Industry and community partners and collaborators can benefit from the 5G Living Lab to support their efforts to advance commercial and other innovative solutions to real-world challenges.
Industry Interest Questionnaire.
For general inquiries about the 5G Living Lab, please connect directly with our Technology Transfer Services team at lpetrin@ualberta.ca.
Powered by Partnerships
Initially launched in 2021, the 5G Living Lab is a partnership between and the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ with support from and . The Lab also helps academic researchers and innovators connect directly with collaborators and partners in industry and the community who can help accelerate research and innovation efforts.5G In Action
ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ researcher Ehsan Hashemi and his team are developing an AI-powered “shared perception” system for autonomous vehicles that could dramatically improve the time it takes for vehicles to refresh data and make decisions.
Learn more about Ehsan’s work »5G In Action
Learn more about ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ researchers who are accessing the 5G infrastructure and accelerating their innovation projects.
Innovator Spotlight: Qipei (Gavin) Mei
Researching to enhance productivity in building and infrastructure systems, Qipei (Gavin) Mei envisions a future where civil engineering and AI work together seamlessly to solve time-consuming and labor-intensive design and construction.
Innovator Spotlight: Martine Pellerin
Pellerin's research includes digital literacy and digital citizenship education, hybridizing teaching modalities and learning environments, using AI systems for supervising pre-service teachers and plagiarism and academic integrity in a new AI era.