The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), a University of California San Diego partnership project led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, supports Internet-data applications in the research, education, and public safety realms.


HPWREN functions as a collaborative, Internet-connected cyberinfrastructure. The project supports a high-bandwidth wireless backbone and access data network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties in areas that are typically not well-served by other technologies to reach the Internet. This includes backbone locations, typically sited on mountain tops, to connect often hard-to-reach areas in the remote Southern California back country.

Recent Image

The image shows a screenshot of part of a panoramic view of the Steele Fire on 9 July 2025, then stretching across three cameras, as seen from HPWREN cameras on Lyons Peak. The full 360 degree panorama views is a new feature in HPWREN's camera user interface, and can be applied to both real-time and archived data. It looks even better on VR/AR devices.


Improvements to HPWREN Data Management and User Interface via AWS


1 July 2025

Read about improvements to HPWREN's data management and user interface, as well as the story of our AWS migration.


HPWREN Time Lapse or

Live Stream Videos

Fires, weather conditions, flooding, and other public safety conditions are scenarios where real-time sensor data distributions can become important aspects for situational awareness. HPWREN can now provide live feeds from most of its cameras, in addition to the post-processed videos shown at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hpwren/videos



Recent video

20250512 Toro Peak at 15fps

Cloud formations around Toro Peak - mid-May 2025