Services
Real-world Impact
The Lab of the North will enhance research, innovation, and testing in communications for complex use cases while providing distinct national and international capabilities.
It brings together the Universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds, local industry and will also be supported by local government, including North Yorkshire Council, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority. Port of Tyne will complement these organisations as a key test site.
The partners that form Lab of the North provide complementary experience and facilities, creating a virtual and distributed lab that can be used to pioneer and translate innovative wired and wireless 5G/6G technologies and systems from TRL3 - 9.
Our Services
At Lab of the North, we bring together the region’s most advanced connectivity assets into a single collaborative platform — enabling organisations to experiment, test, and innovate faster.
We support partners across academia, industry, and the public sector with services designed to unlock value from 5G, 6G, IoT, edge computing, AI/ML, and more.
Specifically, it will provide:
- A unique destination in the North of England.
- Facilities with specialist service support.
- Ecosystem of academic, industrial partners and local government, capable of bridging the gap between academic research and industrial innovation.
- Support inward investment to the region.
- Supporting ecosystem to help SME incubation.
- Packaged offering for specialist 5G/6G and advanced communications research, innovation and testing.
- Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN)
- 5G/6G Expertise.
Navigate the ‘valley of death’ (TRL3-TRL7). - Urban and rural test facilities.
Service Catalogue
Advanced Radio & Network Testbeds
Cloud, Edge & AI Compute Platforms
IoT & Sensor Networks
Measurement & Spectrum Emulation
Autonomous Systems & Robotics
Living Labs & Urban Demonstrators
Challenging & Remote Environments
