5G Solutions for European Citizens

Duration: 01/06/2019 – 31/05/2022   |   Total Funding: EUR 14,286,350.00

Challenge & Objectives

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.

5G-SOLUTIONS is one of the six EU-funded H2020 5G-PPP projects supporting EC’s 5G policy by implementing the last phase (Phase 3b) of the 5G cPPP roadmap. It aims at proving and validating that 5G provides prominent industry verticals with ubiquitous access to a wide range of forward-looking services with orders of magnitude of improvement over 4G, thus bringing the 5G vision closer to realisation.

The project conducts advanced field-trials of innovative use cases, directly involving end-users across five significant industry vertical domains:

1

Factories of the Future

2

Smart Energy

3

Smart Cities

4

Smart Ports

5

Media & Entertainment

In particular, 5G-SOLUTIONS provides validation of more than 140 KPIs for 20 innovative and heterogeneous use cases that require 5G performance capabilities. The use cases are expected to have a high future commercialisation potential and are field trialed separately as well as concurrently with real end-user actors through ICT-17’s 5G-EVE Italy and 5G-VINNI Norway/Greece facilities, thus validating their conformance to target 5G KPIs specified for each use case, as well as their business potential, ethical and social acceptance.

The project will also provide technological enablers for facilitating the execution of the field trials in an automated way, including:

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a unified cross-domain service orchestrator enabling multidomain slicing and 5G service lifecycle automation,

2

an innovative smart KPI visualisation system for facilitating the near real-time analysis, presentation, benchmarking and performance validation of reference 5G network KPIs against predefined target values

3

intent-based APIs for stimulating innovation and fostering the development, portability and provisioning of new innovative applications by SMEs.

5G-SOLUTIONS brings together 26 partners from the 9 EU and associated countries: Italy, Norway, Germany, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Belgium, Cyprus and Israel. The consortium is driven by industry heavyweights from EU telecom and vertical industries and renowned research organisations, the majority of which participate in 24 out of the 43 5G-PPP projects and in several 5G-PPP Working Groups.
As part of 5G-SOLUTIONS, eBOS leverages its 15-year ICT experience in designing, developing, integrating and deploying APIs and interfaces and is involved in the design, development, integration and deployment of the technological enablers, in particular the innovative KPI visualization system and the intent-based APIs for facilitating the execution of the field trials. EBOS also undertakes the role of Quality & Risk Management with the responsibility of organising and supervising quality review/peer reviews for all deliverables including the implementation of the quality management plan.
 

Consortium

TELECOM ITALIA SPA

ALCATEL-LUCENT ISRAEL LTD

APPART AE NEW TECHNOLOGIES COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

APPLIED RESEARCH TO TECHNOLOGIES SRL

CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA

CYBERETHICS LAB SRLS

EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

ELLINIKI ETAIRIA TILEPIKOINONION KAI TILEMATIKON EFARMOGON AE

ENEL X SRL

GLANBIA INGREDIENTS IRELAND DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

IBM IRELAND LIMITED

INLECOM GROUP

INSTITUT FUR RUNDFUNKTECHNIK GMBH

IREN SPA

IRIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA

LIVEU LTD

L.M ERICSSON LIMITED

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU

NUROGAMES GMBH

ORBIS MES

PANEPISTIMIO PATRON

PROCTER &GAMBLE SERVICES COMPANY NV

PROMOZIONE PER L INNOVAZIONE FRA INDUSTRIA E UNIVERSITA ASSOCIAZIONE

TELENOR ASA

WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 856691.