- The project gathers 16 partners from 8 European countries
- An Open 5G Intelligent Experimentation Platform will be developed and available for companies in the sector
- The disruptive approach of the project intends to exploit obtained results through 7 different use cases
The first virtual meeting between consortium members that took place on 16th of June 2021marked the official start of the new European Project 5G-IANA. 5G-IANA is an EU funded project focused on providing agents of the automotive and mobility sectors an open 5G intelligent experimentation platform. This platform will enable companies to develop, implement and test their automotive services as well as to accelerate their development prior to the commercialization phase.
The AOEP (Automotive Open Experimental Platform) platform, the objective of this project, will consist of a complete set of hardware and software resources that will make up an advanced communications IT infrastructure applied to transport and that will take advantage of 5G intelligent networks potential. It will be coupled with an enhanced NetApp Toolkit tailored to the mobility sector, available to all companies and agents of the value chain. 5G-IANA will put at the disposal of these users secured and standardized APIs for accelerating the production stage of new services.
Within the framework of this project, different virtualization technologies will be investigated and developed for enabling the deployment of the end-to-end network services across different domains (vehicles, road infrastructure, MEC nodes and cloud resources).
5G-IANA will be demonstrated through seven automotive-related use cases in two 5G testbeds. Validation scenarios will be the following: remote driving; manoeuvres coordination for autonomous driving; virtual bus tour; AR content delivery for vehicular networks; parking circulation and high-risk driving hotspot detection; network status monitoring; and situational awareness in cross border road tunnel accidents.
The disruptive approach of the project intends to go beyond technological development and exploit obtained results from these demonstration activities.
As regards commercialisation of services, 5G-IANA will perform a multi-stakeholder cost-benefit analysis that will identify and validate market conditions for innovative commercial models focusing on (their) sustainability. These models will support a long-term roadmap towards the generalization of 5G based innovative services. This project is part of the strategy for the pan-European deployment of 5G as a key advanced Automotive services enabler.
The I-SENSE Group of ICCS, as project coordinator, will carry out most of the coordination activities, ensuring the efficient overall coordination, particularly the management of the administrative and financial aspects and will also set up and involve project governance bodies. ICCS will also contribute to the specification of the Distributed AI/ML framework (DML), as well as to the development of the DML framework components and its integration in the 5G testbeds. Finally, ICCS will lead the dissemination activities of the project and support the involvement of new actors in 5G-IANA activities and, in particular, organise a number of micro-projects to collect innovative ideas based on the application of 5G technologies in Automotive related services tested in 5G-IANA experimentation platforms.
The project that started in June 2021 and will run for three years, brings together 16 partners including telecom operators and vendors, technology companies, research institutes & universities and SMEs in the tech & automotive industry, from 8 European Countries. The project’s budget amounts to €7.6 million, of which €6 million comes from the EU research & innovation programme H2020 (ICT-41-2020: 5G innovations for verticals with third party services).
The 5G-IANA consortium: Institute of communication and computer systems (ICCS), Nokia Solutions and Networks GMBH & CO KG, Universitaet Ulm, Fondazione Links – Leading Innovation & Knowledge for Society, Vicomtech, Telekom Slovenije DD, Ubitech Limited, Hit Hypertech Innovations LTD, Bylogix SRL, FS COM, Nextworks, 5G Communications for Future Industry Verticals, Incites Consulting, Oseven Single Member Private Company, Cognitive Innovations Private Company, Internet Institute, Communications Solutions and Consulting Ltd.
Website: https://www.5g-iana.eu/
Twitter: @IANA_5G, https://twitter.com/IANA_5G
LinkedIn: 5G-IANA, https://www.linkedin.com/company/5g-iana
5G IANA has received financing from the Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 of the European Union in virtue of Grant Agreement No. 101016427.
