Project description
Revolutionising the energy vertical industry
Being the first technology to allow for adaptability concerning the energy sector, 5G technology ensures that both radio and core network performance requirements can be reached in terms of end-to-end latency, availability and reliability. This has been achieved thanks to the main goal in 5G development of supporting the next wave of smart grid features and maintaining efficiency all through integrating multiple low-voltage devices into the power grid through low-demand connections. The EU-funded SMART5GRID project aims to revolutionise the energy vertical industry by establishing four novel fundamental functions in modern smart grids and allow for the continuous and stable advancement of 5G technology by developing a 5G experimental facility for new improvements and changes.
Objective
5G is envisioned to be the first global technology standard that will address the variety of future use cases of the energy sector, by ensuring that both the radio and core network performance requirements can be met in terms of end-to-end latency, reliability and availability. Up-to-now, the main discussion for 5G has been to support the next wave of smart grid features and efficiency at the behind-the-meter level, by integrating many low-voltage devices into the power grid through low-cost connections, managing demand and load balance domestically, aiming the reduction of the electricity peaks and energy costs. However, it is expected that, as the emergence of smart grids will grow, a lion share of the growth will take place in the medium-voltage levels: towards secondary substations and distributed energy resources, as well as between secondary substations and primary substation. Smart5Grid aims to revolutionise the Energy Vertical industry through the successful establishment of four fundamental functions of modern smart grids, i.e. (i) automatic power distribution grid fault detection, (ii) remote inspection of automatically delimited working areas at distribution level, (iii) millisecond level precise distribution generation control, and (iv) real-time wide area monitoring in a creative cross-border scenario, thus assisting power grid operators and other energy stakeholders (e.g. smart grid operators, distribution system operators/transmission system operators, energy service providers, etc.)
Not only this. Smart5Grid introduces an open 5G experimental facility, supporting integration, testing and validation of existing and new 5G services and NetApps from third parties (i.e. SMEs, developers, engineers, etc., that do not belong in the consortium) since underpinning experimentation with a fully softwarised 5G platform for the energy vertical industry is one of the key targets of the proposal. Moreover, in order to supply start-ups and newcomers with the opportunity to accelerate their growth in the high impact industry of the energy vertical, Smart5Grid provides an open access NetApp repository, provisioning support and assistance to third parties through a clear and trustworthy experimentation roadmap.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power transmission
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00198 Roma
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00198 Roma
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00198 Roma
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00144 ROMA
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20017 Rho Mi
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151 24 MAROUSSI
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1784 Sofia
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1784 Sofia
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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28037 Madrid
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10443 Athens
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1618 Sofia
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08034 Barcelona
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10561 Athina
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1678 Nicosia
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2003 Nicosia
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34149 Trieste
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3800 075 Aveiro
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08006 BARCELONA
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1080 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1101 NICOSIA
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118 54 Athens
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1784 Sofia
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1000 Sofia
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141 22 NEON HERAKLION
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08880 Cubelles
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1784 Sofia
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16129 Genova Ge
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1784 Sofia
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20063 Cernusco Sul Naviglio Mi
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