Menu
5G-Solutions
The “fifth generation” of telecommunication systems, or 5G, will be one of the most critical building blocks of the European digital economy and society in the next decade. Significant steps towards this strategic technology are being made at EU level, within the framework of the 5G Public Private Partnership, in view of validating the technology across domains.
The 5G-SOLUTIONS main project objective is to conduct advanced field trials of innovative and thematically diverse digital services that require 5G capabilities and performance in the vertical domains of Factories of the Future, Smart Energy, Smart Cities, Smart Ports and Media & Entertainment.
Tags:
Overview
- Formulating a wide set of innovative, heterogeneous use cases spanning across five vertical industries in a complementary way.
- Providing the technological enablers for facilitating the execution of the field trials over specific ICT-17 5G facilities.
- A unified Cross-Domain Service Orchestration based on automation enabling multi-domain slicing and 5G service lifecycle automation.
- A smart KPI visualization system for automating the analysis and presentation of the results obtained from ICT-17 facilities and presenting them through an intuitive user-friendly dashboard in graphical form in near real time.
- A set of open-standards easy-to-use intent-based APIs, including application APIs for facilitating the development, portability, provisioning of and interactions with new user-friendly applications and solutions that require 5G capabilities by SMEs and/or vertical specific systems.
Implementation
Innovative vertical industries use cases
The use cases, which will be validated in the Living Labs, have been carefully selected to represent compelling services that are expected to have a high future business potential and economic impact in strategic vertical industry segments that require 5G performance capabilities and which cannot be offered with the current operational capabilities of 4G. As representative examples, such use cases have been identified in the vertical domains of Factories of the Future, Smart Energy, Smart Cities, Smart Ports, and Media & Entertainment, which will benefit the most from 5G network deployments.
These vertical domains, whose use cases will be technology-wise and business-wise validated in Living Labs, will directly engage end-user actors (industrial and their customers) and have been carefully grouped in three complementary Clusters (i.e. Industry 4.0, Smart Urban Environment and Enhanced User Experience) as shown in the following figure, mapped with the eMBB, URLLC and mMTC service classes and aligned with the 5G-PPP Vision.
Key Objectives
- To develop realistic, advanced and business relevant innovative use case scenarios in five key vertical industries.
- To interface with key ICT-17 facilities and develop the technological enablers for the validation of the use cases.
- To demonstrate the potential and the user value of advanced 5G solutions through extensive technological validation in field trials directly involving end-users in Living Labs (LLs).
- To develop and validate the business models of the use cases in 5G-SOLUTIONS LLs, whilst ensuring long-term social acceptance and economic sustainability, extending beyond the lifespan of the project through a joint commercialisation plan.
- To provide significant contribution to relevant 5G standardisation bodies, to relevant open-source communities, to relevant industry standardisation and user/technology communities.
- To disseminate and exploit the project’s results, to maximise the project’s visibility and facilitate dissemination and communication activities, and to contribute to the objectives of the European 5G-PPP Programme.
