Wake Forest is undergoing a technological renaissance that is spurring on next-generation connectivity and entrepreneurial opportunity. As the community welcomes the presence of TING Internet and begins to construct its own progressive, fiber-optic loop, the town’s fiber infrastructure is about to become a lot more robust and much more accessible.
Wake Forest is set on developing an infrastructure that is conducive to local innovation and enhanced quality of life for its entrepreneurs and residents. The Town boasts an in-the-works. more than 25-mile Town-operated fiber network, several hundreds of miles of private fiber laid by CenturyLink, AT&T and Spectrum, and the emergence of TING fiber.
15 December 2020
Geospatial data is driving new advanced mobility and transportation solutions for cargo and people, unleashing machine learning and artificial intelligence as transportation breaks into the third dimension.
Lifescale Analytics, a data science and analytics firm headquartered in Roseville, Minn., joined the Advanced Mobility Collective in its mission to help accelerate the innovative use of autonomous air and ground vehicles. The Advanced Mobility Collective is a community for collaboration to bring new mobility services to life, including autonomous air and ground vehicles. The Collective is a nonprofit global community of business, technology, government and research partners.
Innovation is being driven by the convergence of 5G wireless connectivity and massive data from the Internet of Things merged with connected air and ground vehicles evolving into autonomous smart machines. “The evolution of advanced mobility is part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Wake Forest is developing a “live-work-play,” mixed-use technology park that will be a first-of-its-kind in northern Wake County.
Despite the challenges currently presented by COVID-19 to land developments of all sizes and to the future of modern work habits, Wake Forest’s plans for a nearly 200-acre, tech-centric site remain active.
In 2018, the Wake Forest Business & Industry Partnership, with the full support of the Town of Wake Forest, entered a joint land-development agreement with private landowners to develop a strategically located property near the heart of Wake Forest and connected to the town’s most significant road infrastructure.
If there’s one thing Wake Forest and the Triangle knows and knows well, it’s growth and development. In recent years, Wake County has witnessed an increase in both commercial and residential real estate development, alongside its population explosion. Census data for July 2017 to July 2018 reports Wake County grew by over 20,400 r