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Building on years of collaboration Rutgers, Duke, and Columbia Engineering have been awarded a new $3.8 million NSF grant for COSMOS, a project to expand and enhance New York City’s urban wireless testbed in West Harlem, enabling research in the areas of 6G wireless networks, smart cities, edge AI, and optical networking (click for more information).

A growing need for high-fidelity traffic data has exposed the limitations of traditional network cameras, which, despite their accessibility, often suffer from low resolution, fixed lenses, and inconsistent synchronization. Researchers say these constraints make it difficult to capture dense, heterogeneous street activity or extract fine-grained visual cues needed for next-generation perception models and traffic analytics.To close this gap, new high-end network cameras are being deployed, offering 4K resolution at 60 frames per second with optical zoom for detailed, long-range observation. These systems can be controlled and accessed remotely over the network, enabling flexible configuration and real-time monitoring—an upgrade expected to significantly enhance the quality and reliability of urban traffic research.