Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.

While 5G companies and opponents are competing over the deployment of the first 5G platforms, the next generation of wireless telecommunication technology is being concocted right now in laboratories all around the world.

Light can simultaneously transfer energy and data to underwater devices, but there’s a long way to go before these systems can be deployed.

The CTL alumni Dr. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem has published the article "The Fourth Use Case for 5G: Internet for All" in the Marconi Society blog.  

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KAUST postdoctoral fellow Abderrahmen Trichili recently became a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow after being accepted to a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Photonics and Applications.

Pinpoint mesh of smart underground objects could give real-time 3D readout of fossil fuel reserves.

For a communications revolution, 6G development needs more human-centric research.

The finding that light can be twisted very precisely may offer fresh options for communications infrastructure.

Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.

Meeting Nobel laureates

The 2019 event provided an opportunity for science's next generation to interact with 39 Nobel laureates, including Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, 2018 laureates in physics.

A communications concept could pinpoint a person infected with a deadly, contagious virus in the middle of a crowded airport.

The CTL alumni Dr. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem has published the article "How Smart Surfaces Will Transform Our Wireless Future" in the Marconi Society blog.  

Read the full article from the Marconi Society website

Insyab, a technology startup specializing in smart solutions allowing robots and drones to collaborate on the execution of common tasks, resulted from three years of its founders' dedicated research at KAUST.