WIVE project uses 5G to increase the business value of automated transport, smart grids, massive machine connectivity and med...
18 September 2017 - 6:01PM
Press Release
18 September, 2017
Helsinki, Finland - An industry group led by Nokia Bell Labs
and including several academics in Finland has established a
collaboration project called WIVE (WIreless for VErticals) to make
it possible for new types of industries to gain competitive
advantage from the latest wireless technologies, especially 5G. The
project, co-funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
(Tekes), involves several industry, research institute and academic
partners such as Nokia, Teleste, Telia, ABB, Cargotec Kalmar,
Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle), Digita,
regulator FICORA, key Finnish universities as well as VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Over the next 10 years, tens of billions of connected devices
are expected to converge into intelligent and programmable systems
that will improve lives in a vast number of areas. Transportation
and resource consumption, learning and work, and treatment of
health and wellness will all be affected by this change, which will
bring massive opportunities for these industries but also new
capacity requirements for networks.
The WIVE project, which is planned to run for 2 years, will
focus on the needs of the following vertical sectors.
· Media and entertainment (M&E)
· Machine-type connectivity for application areas,
including:
·Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), serving
sectors like smart grids and remotely controlled machines
· Massive Machine Type Connectivity (mMTC), allowing a high
number of devices to be connected with limited cost and energy
consumption.
WIVE aims to develop concepts and enable technologies, as well
as to test and experiment new vertical services offered by 5G,
especially for URLLC, mMTC, and media content delivery. These new
communication services have versatile requirements for reliability,
latency, data rates, security and availability. The WIVE project
aims to demonstrate that these requirements can be fulfilled with
future 5G networks with improved flexibility and
cost-efficiency.
The WIVE project implements vertical service pilots based on
industry driven use cases on the top of 5GTNF testbeds (e.g. TAKE-5
and 5GTN+), and tests new vertical services and applications in a
realistic testing environment (out of the laboratory) to discover
possible technical and business opportunities and constraints
associated with new technologies to speed up the roll out of new 5G
vertical services.
Spectrum is one of the key enablers for the exploitation of the
full innovation potential of 5G. Therefore, WIVE is taking an
active role in investigating and promoting flexible spectrum
policies and spectrum management schemes to unlock new spectrum
assets for 5G.
A vital part of WIVE is also the focus on users and identifying
business opportunities for different verticals. 5G enables
innovative service concepts and business cases across industries,
as devices and machines are increasingly connected, paving the way
for new business models and markets to emerge in the connected
world. WIVE takes content consumption patterns and routines among
end-users into account when exploring new business opportunities
and scenarios for 5G.
"Industry collaboration is essential in fostering innovation
around 5G, and for enabling different industries to take full
advantage of the faster connections that 5G promises. Nokia Bell
Labs has a strong focus on ultra reliable, low latency
communications targeting new wireless communication systems for
verticals, and the WIVE project provides us with greater insight
into the requirements and opportunities for experimentation to test
our solutions," said the industrial coordinator of the project,
Mikko Uusitalo, head of wireless advanced technologies
research at Nokia.
"Deep understanding of the needs of different verticals and the
variety of 5G user contexts is in the core of our business. We are
looking at evolving media consumption patterns and developing
revolutionary spectator experiences, for example at Telia 5G Arena
in Helsinki and as part of our agreement for Finnish Ice Hockey
League media rights. Machine-type connectivity and ultra-reliable
communications are just as crucial for building smarter traffic,
manufacturing solutions and other digitalization initiatives, which
are topical for our B2B customers," said Janne Koistinen,
director of Telia 5G program in Finland.
"The number of connected devices in the Internet of Everything
era will pose new challenges to future networks from
interoperability, scalability and reliability perspectives. WIVE
has a lot to contribute here as part of, and in collaboration with,
the 5G Test Network Finland - on top of the media business
transformation activities bridging the work from preceding research
activities in the FUHF (Future of UHF) project," said program
manager Mika Klemettinen from Tekes.
"A substantially higher level of automation, together with
reliable, low-latency communication between nodes in a power
distribution grid, are prerequisites to improving the reliability
of supply and integrating a large amount of distributed, renewable
and intermittent generation. The development of energy policies,
legislation and regulation all drive smarter and greener grids, and
the transition will be facilitated by new technologies, such as
5G," said Dick Kronman, manager of ABB's Grid Automation
Solutions business. "We will adapt our most advanced smart
grid applications to a 5G test network as a benchmark.
Collaboration within the consortium and practical tests will give
us a comprehensive understanding of the Ultra Reliable Low Latency
Communication (URLLC) capabilities of 5G and new business
opportunities," said Petri Hovila, program manager at ABB's
Medium Voltage Products unit in Finland.
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