Newsflash July 2020

SliceNet and RedZinc: eHealth application of Slicing technology

SliceNet and RedZinc, a mobile video telemedicine software company, have responded to the Covid-19 crisis by pivoting technology developed as part of the SliceNet project into a new telemedicine solution for outpatient clinics. RedZinc was asked by the Irish Health Service Executive, to rapidly deploy their real time video communications service, BlueEye Direct, to replace face-to-face patient consultations. The idea was to facilitate people needing medical care to stay home during the lockdown.

BlueEye Direct Video for Clinic uses real-time web based video communications technology, so healthcare professionals can see their patients remotely. The platform is deployed on a public cloud and delivered using WiFi and 4G – no app or set up is required by the patient.

SliceNet research and innovation enabled the BlueEye platform to be built for rapid scaling using virtualized network functions for flexible deployment of eHealth software services.

RedZinc further envisages using slicing in a 5G environment, enabling network operators to offer end-to-end services, inside a single slice, integrating siloed corporate networks and accelerating
deployment. Slicing would allow corporate networks to optimise services in a more agile way with different traffic types such as data, voice, medical images, real time video, providing appropriate
quality of experience to facilitate remote consultations.

Today, SliceNet technology has helped healthcare providers to rapidly deploy a much needed video consultation service in response to the pandemic. The H2020 program has produced concrete benefits for this unexpected healthcare crisis through its foresight of investing in 5G slicing technology.

“The ability to rapidly deploy the service within a few days, to several hundred doctors, reducing their contagion risk, would not have been possible without the SliceNet experience”, Donal Morris, CEO RedZinc.
“RedZinc used network slicing plug & play approach to rapidly launch eHealth video feature requirements and evolved end-to-end services with slicing technology”, Maria Barros, Eurescom.

SliceNet is an EU funded project which has developed End-to-End Cognitive Network Slicing and Slice Management Framework in Virtualised Multi-Domain, Multi-Tenant 5G Networks. RedZinc empowers healthcare professionals, first responders and other personnel to connect to a remote patient or professional using web based real-time video. RedZinc is a partner in SliceNet.

SliceNet videos

In the eHealth use case, slicing is used to prioritise emergency video calls. Watch the video here.

For the Smart Grid use case, a Self-Healing solution was devised and implemented. Watch the video here.

Finally, the Smart City lighting 5G cloud native application was implemented in Romania. Watch the video here.

For further information, read the full article here.

Excellent SliceNet’s final review

The key achievements of the project are summarised here:

• SliceNet built a framework for network slicing across multiple administrative domains, facilitating early and smooth adoption of 5G slices for verticals to achieve their demanding use cases, and managing the QoE for slice services. The framework can be used by verticals in many sectors.
• 60+ papers have been published or accepted in international journals, magazines or conferences including several top-tier journal publications in IEEE transactions or journals and other renowned periodicals;
• Numerous other project dissemination events and materials have been produced including both live and recorded webinars for all the 7 technical work packages in the third year of the project, contribution to more than 10 white papers through liaison with 5G PPP program, among others;
• 7 formal contributions to international standardisation organisations including 5 official Work Items created in the third year of the project in ITU-T ML5G and ETSI GANA, in addition to the ETSI ENI POC and an IETF draft in previous years.
• Close collaboration with other 5G and Horizon 2020 projects, especially joint development and trial with Phase 2 project MATILDA for the Smart City Lighting use case, which has been deployed and demonstrated in real-world operational environment.

See Slicenet’s website for more details.

COREnect: New consortium to develop a 5G and beyond strategic roadmap

During this 2-year Coordination and Support Action project starting on 1^st July 2020, European industry and R&D leaders from both the microelectronics and telecommunications sectors will jointly develop a high-level strategic roadmap of core technologies for future connectivity systems and components, targeting the next generation telecommunications networks and services.

This roadmap will provide the foundations for sustainable European technology sovereignty in 5G and beyond. It will promote innovation and business opportunities, including for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and contribute to build or reinforce European leadership in these areas. It will cover the full 5G value chain including materials, components, subsystem integration, connectivity platforms and will address vertical industry sectors in areas such as health, energy, manufacturing, automotive and smart cities, among others.

The COREnect consortium involves prominent European industrial and academia players from the telecommunications sector (Ericsson, III-V Lab / Nokia, and Technische Universität Dresden/ Barkhausen Institut), from the microelectronics sector (Infineon, NXP, STMicroelectronics, imec and CEA), industrial associations representing the Smart Networks and Services and Key Digital Technologies communities (5G IA and AENEAS), a leading industry player in one of the vertical markets for 5G (Bosch), and one of the major promoters of the European SME ICT community (AUSTRALO).

Find further information here!

5G Tours Webinar: Multidevice XR experiences

It presents WebXR as an interesting option to engage with XR experiences creation, by leveraging the reach and ubiquity of the web browser. How WebXR works, which interface is the starting point and how to abstract it in order to facilitate content creation through a framework follows. An example of a multi-user space was presented and an explanation of the principles that allow the interaction was shown.

Key take-aways from “5G for Healthcare, Social Care and Public Safety” webinar

Health and social care have become highly topical in 2020 and are extremely important safeguards in our society. The 5G for Healthcare, Social Care and Public Safety” webinar explored 5G can be used to support health, social care and public service for every citizen, avoid major disasters and reduce the need for interventions by first responders.

Key take-aways include the 5 following major items:

• #1: Pressing need for a common, global standard for eHealth/mHealth
• #2: Bringing together awareness, collaboration, evidence and regulation
• #3: 5G health risks and the global infodemic
• #4: New 5G Health Association and Funding are key to filling the white spots in the sector
• #5: Forthcoming White Paper to shed new light on 5G for healthcare

The webinar on 15 July 2020 was the third in a series organised by a sub-set of 3GPP Market Representation Partners: 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), 5G Alliance for Connected Industry and Automation (5G-ACIA), 5G-Infrastructure Association (5G-IA), Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE). This webinar was co-hosted with the European Technology Platform, NetWorld2020. It attracted participants from 14 EU27 countries and 9 Non-EU27/global countries.

Additional take-aways and statistics here.

5GENESIS: release of “Open 5GENESIS Suite” at GitHub

Further evolution of the suite and future releases are planned during the project lifetime.

Also, the D5.3 public deliverable is the reference document provided to third parties, defining the experimentation methodology of 5GENESIS and the installation and deployment details of the Open 5GENESIS Suite.

All interested parties are invited to engage and contribute to this open-source project.

5Growth webinar: Powering 5G in Industry

Layer123 announced a series of webinars highlighting the work of the 5GROWTH consortium, a project dedicated to empowering industries with an end-to-end 5G solution that is AI-driven, automated and shareable.

The 5GROWTH project will look to deliver a scalable, open and applicable 5G solution for vital industries like transportation, energy, and ‘industry 4.0’. By providing freely accessible documentation, standards and guidelines, the project hopes to play a key role in allowing Europe’s industrial companies to take maximum advantage of the 5G revolution and use it to transform their service delivery.

These webinars summarised the work done by the project so far, the deliverables completed, and the new applications and use cases that the work of the 5GROWTH Consortium is making possible.

Achievements announced in early June 2020 related to the project include the Initial design of 5G End-to-End Service Platform and the Service and Core KPI Specification – read more about them here.

For more materials related to the 5Growth project, see below:

Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Github repository

Take-aways from 5G MOBIX webinar

The panel, coordinated by Barbara Basdeki of ICCS, included speakers from our partners Turkcell, Ericsson, Ford Otosan and WINGS ICT Solutions.

The webinar provided an overview of the trial site corridor, giving information on its location, the deployment of the 5G network infrastructure and the development of OBUs/RSUs/applications. User stories around ‘platooning with see-what-I-see functionality’ and ‘assisted border crossing’ were illustrated. Explanations were also given on the challenges that need to be overcome.

The border crossing between Ipsala Turkey and the Greek town of Kipoi allows commercial transport to travel between the two countries. At this border crossing, there is a customs area, where administrative procedures and x-ray checks on passing vehicles are performed, and innovations such as truck platooning and assisted border crossing are being implemented as a part of the trial. This cross-border corridor is one of the eight trial sites in the project, where the others are the border corridor between Portugal and Spain and the six pre-deployment trial sites in Germany, China, Finland, France, South Korea and the Netherlands.

Further information about this webinar in 5G Mobix website.

Think NEXUS Webinar: Advanced wireless networking 5G and beyond

During this webinar, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the state of play of advanced wireless networking 5G in the EU and the USA. The webinar counted with the participation of keynote speakers in this field of knowledge.

Read the project White Paper “A Path for EU-US Cooperation in 5G/6G” published in June 2020 here.

Find more information about the project on Think NEXUS website.

5G-VINNI Business Layer requirements questionnaire directed to all ICT19 projects!

5G-VINNI is running an online questionnaire directed to all participants/enterprises in ICT19 projects in order to assess the importance and relevance of the identified Business Layer requirements for the different 5G-VINNI platform potential users.

The questionnaire is anonymous and should last about 15-20 minutes.

Please fill in the online questionnaire by September 4, 2020, here.