5G-EPIC

News & Events​ 5G-EPICENTRE at TECNOSEC Nemergent is currently at the TECNOSEC event (TECNOSEC – Feria de Tecnologías Policiales, de Seguridad e Inteligencia – TECNOSEC) which is focused on security and public protection. TECNOSEC attendees are mostly from different police forces, and fit the profile of a PPDR audience focused on the 5G-EPICENTRE project.  At the TECNOSEC exhibition (new technologies for security and public protection), Nemergent on behalf of the consortium,  will provide information to the attending PPDR agencies on the 5G experimentation solutions offered by the 5G-EPICENTRE project.

News & Events​ Plenary meeting – Heraklion, Greece A plenary meeting for the 5G-EPICENTRE project took place at Heraklion, Greece between the 9th and 10th of March 2023 and was hosted by FORTH. The meeting served to provide an update on the work performed during the last period of the project and to define the plan for the next period. The plenary meeting also offered a great opportunity for the Consortium to meet together and for the work package leaders to present the progress made so far and to discuss in person any bottlenecks faced during the latest months of the project and find the appropriate solutions. 

News & Events​ 5G-EPICENTRE at GlobeCom 2022 On December 4 2022 the paper titled “Validation of NFV management and orchestration on Kubernetes-based 5G testbed environment” was presented online during GlobeCom 2022. The paper was co-authored by 5G-EPICENTRE partners FORTH, UMA and One Source. GlobeCom is one of the IEEE Communications Society’s two flagship conferences dedicated to driving innovation in nearly every aspect of communications. This year it is held Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and it is expected to attract prominent figures from research, industry, as well as government leaders. Over 2,000 people from 70 countries attend this leading conference each year. This highlights how important it is to present the work carried out within 5G-EPICENTRE during this event and how it contributes to solving issues related to the hot topic of NFV management and orchestration in 5G networks. Find out more about GlobeCom 2022 here:  https://globecom2022.ieee-globecom.org/

News & Events​ 5G-EPICENTRE at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona Hello from the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona! Visit us today at Iquadrat booth (Hall 2, Level 0, Street E, Stand 61). Learn about the 5G-EPICENTRE experimentation infrastructure that will assist PPDR providers in improving the services they offer to PPDR end-users. Find out more about the Smart City Expo World Congress here: https://www.smartcityexpo.com/

News & Events​ OneSource (ONE) and Altice Labs (ALB) have demonstrated the 5G capabilities for a potential PPDR situation in Madeira (Portugal) The event happened on the past 8th of September and counted with the presence of Ana Figueiredo (ALTICE Portugal CEO), Miguel Albuquerque (governor of Madeira region) as well as several high-ranking members of the regional first responder and civil protection organizations. The event focused on the simulation of a serious motorcycle accident, which required the presence of police, firefighters, ambulance crew and even a fast-response medical team – EMIR. The flow of event followed a narrative as close as possible to a real situation: (i) starting by a phone call to the emergency number; (ii) dispatch of the first responder teams and (iii) already on site, a thorough assessment of the victim, ending with the transportation of the victim to the nearest hospital. The whole action was monitored from a central command centre by the responsible(s) of each of the local first responder organizations, leveraging the field awareness capabilities provided by the Mobitrust platform. During the demonstration there were a total of 12 upstream videos in real time, with an average of almost 100Mbps total upstream bandwidth (bodycams, vehicle cameras andsurveillance cameras) plus multiple sensors and management data. In the control room, videos were displayed in HD from multiple devices (PC, tablet and phone), always delivering a low delay and fluid view of the field. As part of the assistance, and considering it was a critical victim, a remote video consultation with an hospital physician was executed, transmitting an ultrasound performed on-site with the aim of demonstrating the capabilities of 5G to support a quicker identification of intervention needs. This procedure enables the hospital to be prepared for the arrival of the victim with the required resources, acting faster in the best interest of the victim’s health, and also decision-making to conduct minor procedures still on site that may improve the chances of success of the relief operation. This event would not happen without the cooperation between the ALB and ONE teams, who prepared the required resources, namely the BodyKit devices and the Altice commercial 5G network that were used to provide mobile coverage for the site. The event was considered an absolute success by the different parties involved, and it was raised the possibility of conducting further demonstrations of the 5G capabilities for PPDR scenarios, as well as the huge potential they may bring to real life field operations in the future.

News & Events​ “Innovative 5G services and experimentation for Public Protection and Disaster Relief” Webinar organised by 5G-EPICENTRE” On June 24, 2022, 5G-EPICENTRE organised the webinar titled “Innovative 5G services and experimentation for Public Protection and Disaster Relief”, in order to present the project and its goals to Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) community practitioners. The main scope of the webinar was to examine the project from a domain-specific viewpoint and present interesting applications and 5G-based PPDR services enabled by the 5G-EPICENTRE tools for experimentation.  DARLENE H2020 project has participated to the webinar, including its partners from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). Therefore, four (4) out of the eight (8) use cases of 5G-EPICENTRE were presented from the end users point-of-view, aiming to highlight the added value that the LEAs would gain from the proposed solutions.  More information regarding the webinar can be found here. 

News & Events​ 5GPP SME Working Group May 2022 Meeting Summary: 23/05/2022 Participants from 5G-EPICENTRE: Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent) Summary: The meeting discussed several topics related to Horizon Europe, SME activities within NetworldEurope and 6G IA, and recent developments regarding SME membership. Key Points: Challenges with New Templates: Participants highlighted difficulties in adapting to the new templates introduced in Horizon Europe, particularly in Section 2. Promotion of SME Activities: Efforts have been made to promote SME activities within NetworldEurope and 6G IA, including the organization of “SME booths” at events like EuCNC. Communication tools such as regular online meetings, emails, and a shared workspace have facilitated discussions among SME WG members. SME Membership in 6G IA: Recent additions have brought the total number of SMEs in 6G IA to 61. Membership in 6G IA is currently independent of proposal success, with discussions indicating potential increases in SME membership without altering the current membership procedure.

News & Events​ OneSource (ONE) has collected preliminary KPI values using 5G at Altice Labs (ALB) testbed After conducting successful 5G connectivity tests, ONE has focused on collecting preliminary values of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) defined under 5G-EPICENTRE for its Use Case (UC). That was achieved on the past April 5th at the ALB testbed, using the mechanisms implemented on the Mobitrust components and, of course, thanks to the tight collaboration between ALB and ONE teams. In the future, the values of the KPIs will be propagated through the different layers of the project and finally presented on the project Portal, using appropriate graphical tools aiming to display to the end-user, the metrics collected using 5G connectivity. The collection of KPIs is crucial for the validation of the theoretical benefits behind 5G, in specific those that are expected to impact vertical applications, such as the ones behind the use cases considered in the project, namely: guarantees of Quality-of-Service (QoS), low latencies, higher bandwidth, enabling edge computing (present in cloud-native paradigms), etc.

News & Events​ OneSource (ONE) has successfully conducted 5G connectivity tests at Altice Labs (ALB) testbed On February 15th, OneSource’s team was in Aveiro at Altice Labs to conduct 5G connectivity tests with its Mobitrust platform running over the 5G-EPICENTRE Kubernetes infrastructure. In these testes the Mobitrust devices were able to successfully establish a 5G connection between the devices 5G modems and the Altice 5G SA testbed infrastructure. OneSource validated that IoT, video, audio and control data from the devices was delivered thought to the Mobitrust platform components at the 5G-EPICENTRE Kubernetes infrastructure. The success of this experiment was only possible due to a tight collaboration between the teams of both OneSource and Altice Labs.  As part of the continuous improvement and evolution of the Mobitrust as a Network Application for 5G-EPICENTRE, OneSource will continue to conduct research, development and experimentation activities aiming to achieve a fully resilient and capable platform for Mission Critical environments using 5G technologies.

News & Events​ UPTIME 2022 – The Private 5G World Community Conference On January 26th-27th, UPTIME, the global event hosted in the evocative setting of Villa Griffone, home of Guglielmo Marconi and cradle of wireless communications, brought together an audience of around 1000 Private 5G and LTE professionals. The event consisted of two days of meetings and conferences, broadcast live on web stream, to deepen and discuss the scenarios and opportunities of the 5G universe: the technology that revolutionizes the way we live, communicate and do business. Participants had the opportunity to listen to the speeches of the 45 speakers and ask them questions to learn about the challenges, the main business cases, and all the news of the Private 5G world. A dedicated presentation focused on 5G-PPP projects, including 5G-EPICENTRE. UPTIME is an event organized by 5G-EPICENTRE project partner Athonet, a worldwide corporate with 15+ years of experience in delivering fully supported 4G, and now 5G, Core solutions for business-critical Enterprises and CSPs scaling up their networks. For all information on the event and to have access to videos and presentations: https://uptime.athonet.com/