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:
Factories of the Future
Smart Energy
Smart Cities
Smart Ports
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:
a unified cross-domain service orchestrator enabling multidomain slicing and 5G service lifecycle automation,
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
intent-based APIs for stimulating innovation and fostering the development, portability and provisioning of new innovative applications by SMEs.
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.
