Resources and Facilities
Our group is equipped with advanced testbeds and experimental facilities, enabling us to conduct a wide range of wireless communication experiments and to design and implement embedded Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
Spectrum Analyzer
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- USRP X310 + 2x UBX 160 USRP RF Daughterboard
- USRP X310 + TwinRX RF Daughterboard
- USRP N210 + UBX 40 USRP RF Daughterboard *4
- USRP B210 *3
- USRP B206mini
- USRP B205mini
- RFSoC 4x2 *3
- WARP v3 *3
- LimeSDR *3
- Zedboard + AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ FMC module
- bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 *2
- HackRF One *2
- antSDR E310
- PlutoSDR*4
- RTL-SDR*5
Wireless Kit
- Pycom FiPy *10 (for WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, SigFox and NB-IoT)
- Pycom LoPy4*100 (for WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and SigFox)
- LoRa devices, including mbed LoRa sx1272, sx1261, sx1276, sx1280 (2.4 GHz LoRa), Arduino LoRa shield and Microchip RN2483 LoRa
- Nordic Semiconductor: nRF52840 Dongle, nRF52840 DK, nRF5340 DK, (for ZigBee and Bluetooth)
- Texas Instrument: CC1352P, CC2652P, CC2640R2, CC1352P1
- ESP32: ESP32 and ESP32-S3 for WiFi and Bluetooth
- Raspberry Pi-based LoRaWAN Gateway, RAK831
GPU Platform
- Work station with RTX 4090
- Work station with RTX 3060
- Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit *2
- Jetson TX2 Developer Kit *3
FPGA Platform
Single Board Computer
- Up squared board
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Intel NUC mini PC
mmWave Radar
- IWR6843AOPEVM: IWR6843AOP evaluation module for integrated antenna-on-package (AoP) intelligent mmWave sensor
- IWR6843ISK: IWR6843 evaluation module for single-chip 60GHz long-range antenna mmWave sensor.
- IWR1843BOOST: IWR1843 single-chip 76-GHz to 81-GHz industrial radar sensor evaluation module
- DCA1000EVM : Real-time data-capture adapter for radar sensing evaluation module
- MMWAVEICBOOST: mmWave sensors carrier card platform
Cameras
- RealSense D455f: a depth camera that combines stereo depth sensing with an RGB camera to capture both visual and three-dimensional information about the surrounding environment. It is particularly suitable for applications such as human activity recognition, gesture recognition, object tracking, and robotics.
Facilities
The High Frequency Engineering Group at University of Liverpool has an anechoic chamber and the biggest reverberation chamber in the UK universities.