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Academic Research

Researchers and scientists are rapidly accelerating discovery at the pace of innovation using the NI platform for measurement, control and design.

Researchers need their tools to drive productivity and take accurate measurements, whether they’re conducting research in the field or lab.

Accelerate Discovery With the NI Platform

Researchers are driving time-critical, ambitious innovation while addressing grand engineering challenges in the broad areas of transportation, wireless communications, medicine, energy and climate change. Across each of these application areas, researchers need to easily acquire measurements, scale to complex multidisciplinary systems, and rapidly prototype a scalable solution. NI is central to accelerating researcher innovation by providing the technology and support to prototype systems, publish findings and secure funding.

Research Application User Handbooks

Learn more about automotive research from device-to-device communications to fuel cell research.

Automotive Research Handbook

Learn how researchers and industrial partners are delivering on the innovation needed to change the world of transportation.

Gain a comprehensive look at the engineering research and development that wireless researchers use to accelerate work in research labs.

Wireless Research Handbook

See how technology researchers and engineers are accelerating wireless prototyping and design with the NI platform.

Find energy research examples that show how researchers are using NI solutions to solve some of the greatest challenges we face by measuring, controlling and prototyping innovative approaches to global energy needs.

Energy Research Handbook

Discover how researchers are solving global energy challenges by measuring, controlling and prototyping innovative solutions.

The NI Platform Helps Researchers Develop Solutions for the Future

With the right tools, researchers can create, design, simulate, prototype, and deploy wireless systems faster. Learn how researchers partnered with NI to test 5G wireless spectral efficiency using the NI MIMO Prototyping System.

5G Wireless and Communications

See examples from around the world for a comprehensive look at the technology researchers are using to advance next-generation wireless systems.

NI offers design tools and test systems that give engineers and scientists conducting energy research the ability to rapidly explore new approaches.

Energy Generation and Distribution

Research solutions to tackle a complex array of concerns, including renewable energy generation, grid storage, smart grid control, and power quality analysis.

NI solutions integrate hardware and software to help automotive scientists and engineers take accurate measurements, perform hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, and rapidly prototype new ideas.

Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

Drive advancements in autonomous and connected vehicle automotive research with solutions to optimize electric, hybrid, and combustion engine performance.

NI solutions enable advanced aerospace engineering research with flexible hardware and software that can adapt to new signal types, emerging needs, and process spectrum from 20 Hz to 26.5 GHz.

Spectral Monitoring and Signal Intelligence

Learn how modern radar, spectrum monitoring, and signal intelligence systems are requiring researchers to adapt to new signal types and ever-higher frequencies.