5G research platform launched in the port of Hamburg
Industrial applications require a telecommunications network that is particularly reliable and very secure. At the same time, it must support a large number of different services and applications.
In the Port of Hamburg, which is a logistics hub on the one hand and a tourist magnet on the other, the applications are diverse and the requirements for a 5G network are therefore particularly high. For example, traffic lights in the port area are to be controlled via mobile radio and environmental measurement data are to be collected and processed in real time. In addition, virtual reality applications should help to better monitor critical infrastructure such as locks and construction sites and thus make it safer.
The project partners are now examining whether these applications with their very different requirements on data transport, can function reliably in a single mobile radio network. For this purpose, virtual networks, so-called “network slices”, optimized for specific applications, are implemented in the test network. The innovative architecture of 5G makes it possible to adapt networks dynamically and flexibly to the requirements of different applications. In the test field, such a network with several network slices will be tested for the first time in Germany under live industrial conditions.
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The 5G test in Hamburg is part of the two-year research project “5G MoNArch” (5G Mobile Network Architecture for various services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond). 5G MoNArch aims to implement concepts for the 5G wireless architecture in practice. Priority will be given to gaining experience from the use of 5G Network Slicing in real test environments in order to review and improve the underlying concepts. While the test field in Hamburg mainly tests the integration of 5G into traffic and infrastructure control and monitoring, a second test field of the same project in Torino (Italy) focuses on multimedia applications. 5G MoNArch is funded as a phase II project of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research Framework Programme.
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5G will play an important role in new application scenarios created by the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. In addition to the manufacturing industry, the logistics sector in particular can also benefit greatly from 5G mobile communications.
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More information: Nokia 5G web page
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