Newsflash July 2022

5G-EPICENTRE webinar on “Innovative 5G services and experimentation or Public Protection and Disaster Relief”

On June 24, 2022, 5G-EPICENTRE organised the webinar titled “Innovative 5G services and experimentation for Public Protection and Disaster Relief” 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 in 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.

Innovative ideas from INSPIRE5G-Plus

The work builds on the “Blockchain-based Management of Certified Network Slices” idea, which is aimed to study the possibility to evolve the Management of Network Slices by implementing a system in which only certified Network Slice elements would be accepted in a distribution-based system using  Blockchain. Detailed information about the innovation is available at: https://www.innoradar.eu/innovation/41970

Whilst, the “Vehicle authentication enhanced with misbehaviour detection” innovation aims to: i) enhance authentication efficiency in highly dense vehicular scenarios with the use of probabilistic data signatures which keep the end-to-end latency and false positive rate at controllable levels; ii) identify (detect and localize) vehicular misbehaviour in real-time through the exploitation of spatiotemporal data (e.g., vehicle’s position, speed, acceleration, heading angle) cross-correlations and extraction of the underlying vehicle dynamics in a mobility model-agnostic manner. Detailed information about the innovation available at: https://www.innoradar.eu/innovation/41962

5G-RECORDS Field Trial

This demonstration highlighted the hard work that NOKIA, Telefónica and UPM have put in over the past two years. UPM has evolved and optimized its FVV-Live system to be able to operate over a 5G infrastructure. Nokia has built a compact solution of 5G network and MEC able to support a variety of processing-demanding use cases, such as live immersive production. And Telefónica has developed a SDN solution to provide end-to-end QoS to the whole pipeline, enabling connectivity for both end users and producers.

Smart5Grid solutions for energy GRIDs

On the 21st of June 2022, Smart5Grid Project successfully organized a webinar on ‘5G Use cases for the Energy Vertical’. The webinar was attended by 44 people from different backgrounds mainly from Academia, energy, telecommunications, technological and security intelligence sectors.

Τhe aim of the workshop was to discuss the application of 5G technology in Smart Grids via the following Use Cases:

• Automatic Power Distribution Grid Fault Detection.
• Remote Inspection of Automatically Delimited Working Areas at Distribution Level.
• Millisecond Level Precise Distributed Generation Monitoring.
• Real-time Wide Area Monitoring of power exchanges (cross border).

The webinar started with a presentation of the project by the Project Coordinator, Mr. Daniele Porcu, and the energy vertical vision. Then, four partners presented the 4 pilots
of the project as follows:

• Session 1: Automatic power distribution grid fault detection – Fabrizio Battista (ENEL)
• Session 2: Remote inspection of automatically delimited working areas at distribution level – Inmaculada Prieto (ENEL)
• Session 3: Millisecond level precise distributed generation monitoring – Athanasios Bachoumis (UBITECH)
• Session 4: Real-time wide area monitoring of power exchanges – Dimitrios Brodimas (IPTO)

Read more here.

Synergies in  European H2020 Research

One2many develops the Cell Broadcast Centre Function (CBCF) as a cloud-native system under the FUDGE-5G project. The key focus of the FUDGE-5G project efforts will be to enable highly customized alert and notification functions for industry-specific verticals in a 5G environment. The cloud-native deployment of CBCF on private 5G networks will help realise vertical use cases as pure cloud-based applications. CBCF in FUDGE 5G allows broadcasting of informational messages (e.g., coordination, warning, deployment, or any other) over the private 5G network to all mobile devices in an area.

One2many also develops a chatbot under the ENGAGE project. The chatbot blueprint is a thorough piece of comparative research of 45 chatbot types and functionalities applied in a variety of cultural and societal settings. The chatbot prototype is a machine-learning module, based on the blueprint specifications and interoperating within a Cell Broadcast (CB) public warning environment to reduce the congestion or the overload of emergency response centres when an emergency happens.

Research can be transferred to a real use case, the hospital case when the hospital is unable to address the surge in demand for assistance (increased number of patients needing enriched-oxygen treatment, hospital falling short of devices, of beds, and of medical support personnel). With the synergic technologies developed under Horizon 2020 projects, personnel will be able to notify the hospital management that a potential emergency may arrive.

The CBCF, in a few seconds, will disseminate the message by the management to all hospital staff in the impacted area/ function via a private 5G network. The PWC (Public Warning Center) will simultaneously send information about the event to the chatbot server, for helping to address the surge in inquiries the hospital staff may be having. The message that medical staff receive on their mobile device will contain a web link to the chatbot sever. The chatbot server will have been configured to provide several answers to questions the hospital staff may have as a reaction to the message received, reducing the surge in calls to hospital management while guiding the staff on what to do and how to do it.

CBCF and Chatbot Innovations will allow hospital staff to work more efficiently and effectively by facilitating the distribution of medical knowledge, relevant information, and expertise over a much wider area in a much faster time. This innovations in terms of network connectivity, IT security, and automation expands the hospitals’ capabilities, enables to mobilise more doctors to respond to remote consultations, to redeploy wards from one use (e.g. orthopedics) to another (e.g. respiratory emergency), to monitor the supply of oxygen-treatment machines, and to evaluate how the emergency is evolving. All this, over a broad geographical coverage (hospital buildings over an extended area, such as a region, or a large capital city).

This process of office digitalisation is expected to generate operational efficiencies and productivity improvements while ensuring the maximum security and privacy offered by a private network.

The Smart Connectivity Digital Innovation Hub Netwotk monthly activity report

SCoDIHNet has performed a number of activities in July 2022 among those, we can highlight the following ones:

• Cooperation with African DIHs together with the 5 ICT58 projects funded under the Horizon 2020 program. A MoU has been finalised and validated by the 6G-IA board, it should be signed soon by all parties. A webinar will be organised after the summer with a specific focus on Smart Connectivity
• Cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) in order to promote 5GPPP project results and facilitate replicability at regional level. A MoU has been finalised and validated by the 6G-IA, it is also supported by the EISMEA agency as an example that should be replicated with other DIH networks (AI, Industry, Robotics, …)
• Cooperation with the DIH4AI network which is similar to SCoDIHNet but targeting the AI and data domains. Collaboration will focus on African DIHs and Service platform development
• Mapping the Smart Connectivity Technology providers (SMEs) with the DIHs in order to facilitate cooperation at regional level. A first map encompassing 6G-IA, Networld Europe and AIOTI members has been developed, it will be completed with the Enterprise Europe Network members

Call for Demos

Electra Hotel Athens, September 5-8

NGMN Exhibition and Conference

Pavillon d’Armenonville, Paris, France September 7-9

5G-MOBIX final event

CTAG, Spain – September 13-14

6G Global Summit

Online – September 15-16

 9th Global Event

Tokyo, Japan – September 20-21

Workshop on 6G KPI and how to measure them
September 28 @09:00-12:00

CfP Smart5Grid@IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

Paphos, Cyprus – September 26-29

AIOTI Signature Event: Societal Impact and Opportunities for the Green Digital Twin Transition

Brussels, Belgium  – September 27 @08:00-17:00 CEST

European Research and Innovation Days 2022
online, September 28-29 @09:00-18:00

ETSI IoT Week
Sophia-Antipolis, France – October 10-14 @9:00-17:00 CEST

CfP Next Generation networking and Internet @ The 5G IEEE Future Networks World Forum

Brussels, Belgium  – October 12-15 @08:00-17:00 CEST

8th IEEE World Forum IoT – ASSIST-IoT CfP

Yokohama, Japan  – October 26-November 11

IEEE Global Communication Conference: Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  – December 4-8

“Native NI – The 1st International Workshop on Native Network Intelligence”

Roma, Italy – December 9