5G-HEART project focuses on realising 5G trials and validating 5G KPIs on the vital vertical use-cases of healthcare, transport and aquaculture. In the health area, 5G-HEART validates pillcams for automatic detection in screening of colon cancer and vital-sign patches with advanced geo-localization as well as 5G AR/VR paramedic services. In the transport area, 5G-HEART validates autonomous/assisted/remote driving and vehicle data services. In the aquaculture area, 5G-HEART validates 5G-based fish farm monitoring systems. The infrastructure shared by the verticals, will host important innovations: network slicing as a service; resource orchestration in access/core and cloud/edge segments with live user environments. Novel applications and devices (e.g. underwater drones, car components, healthcare devices) are devised. Trials run on sites of 5G-Vinni (Oslo), 5Genesis (Surrey), 5G-EVE (Athens), as well as 5GTN (Oulu) and 5Groningen (Groningen), which are integrated to form a powerful and sustainable platform where slice concurrency will be validated at scale.
The overall objective of the 5G-HEART is to define and validate the cost efficient 5G converged network concepts, which enable an intelligent hub supported by multiple vertical industries.