cell towers – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:40:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png cell towers – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 UF Researchers Mine Lightning Data To Protect Cell Towers (UF HWCE) https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/uf-researchers-mine-lightning-data-to-protect-cell-towers/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:40:47 +0000 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/?p=20845 University of Florida postdoctoral researcher Ziqin Ding, Ph.D., and his team are working on a project to protect cell towers and other tall objects from lightning strikes. Using a novel combination of antennas, sensors, and algorithms, Ding’s system is able to detect if a particular lightning strike has impacted a given structure or not.

How is this possible? It’s all a matter of having the right data, said Ding, who has been studying lightning in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering for eight years.

 

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