The Advanced Communications Technologies (ACT) Science and Technology Center is an ASU research and development center supported by the Arizona New Economy Initiative. STCs are responsible for leveraging ASU-industry partnerships to enable research innovation, entrepreneurship and tech transfer in areas key to the future of Arizona’s economy.

The ACT STC seeks to drive innovation in emerging communications technologies and sensing systems and make these solutions accessible to the broader community. The ACT STC has four thrust areas: future radio frequency systems, flexible modern systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), communications for augmented reality and awareness for autonomous vehicles.

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Future radio frequency systems

Investigating novel communications systems, radio frequency technologies, distributed systems and new concepts for low Earth orbit satellites.

Flexible modem system-on-a-chip

Improving flexible domain system-on-a-chip technology to make SoCs cheaper and more widely available, developing efficient, flexible architectures and novel SoC capabilities.

Communications for augmented reality

Enabling new uses of augmented reality technology for both business and recreational use by improving capabilities such as processing efficiency and devices’ spatial awareness.

Awareness for autonomous vehicles

Creating novel autonomous air and ground vehicle applications and improving AVs’ spatial awareness, and developing sensing and communications technologies to improve system reliability.