The COSMOS team in collaboration with Siemens and Rutgers University recently deployed an “Industry 4.0/5G+” sandbox extension, funded by Rutgers, the State of New Jersey, and Siemens. The extension is focused on evaluation of low-latency feedback control scenarios which arise in industrial automation and smart manufacturing. As shown in the figure, one large programmable software defined COSMOS radio node sector and a pair of small nodes were deployed in the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Institute operated by the Mechanical & Aerospace department at Rutgers. The objective of the this prototype is to work with industry partners on the design and development of advanced manufacturing techniques that require low latency and high reliability communications integrated with edge computing. The overall goal is to use  merging wireless and edge
cloud capabilities to enable speed and flexibility in terms of manufacturing floor reconfigurability.