Description du projet
Des infrastructures 5G mieux localisées
Dans de nombreuses applications, les systèmes doivent être capables de recueillir des informations sur leur environnement et d’adapter leur comportement en conséquence. Les technologies de localisation actuelles présentent toutefois un certain nombre d’inconvénients liés à l’impossibilité de travailler à l’intérieur, de donner une localisation très précise ou de maintenir de faibles coûts. Le projet LOCUS, financé par l’UE, vise à améliorer la fonctionnalité des infrastructures 5G afin de fournir des informations de localisation précises et accessibles n’importe où, et de déterminer des caractéristiques et des modèles de comportement plus complexes à partir de la localisation brute et des événements physiques. Le projet permettra de renforcer la valeur globale de l’écosystème 5G en ouvrant la voie à de nouvelles applications, en stimulant les industries verticales et en créant de nouvelles opportunités commerciales pour les entreprises de télécommunications.
Objectif
Context-awareness is essential for many existing and emerging applications. Context information greatly relies on location information of people and things. But, navigation satellite systems are denied in indoor environments, current cellular systems fail to provide high-accuracy localization, other local localization technologies (e.g. WI-FI or BT) imply high deployment/maintenance/integration costs. Raw spatiotemporal data are not sufficient by themselves and need to be integrated with tools for the analysis of the behaviour of physical targets, to extract relevant feature of interests.
LOCUS will improve the functionality of 5G infrastructures to: i) provide accurate and ubiquitous location information as a network-native service and ii) derive more complex features and behavioural patterns out of raw location and physical events, and expose them to applications via simple interfaces. Localization, together with analytics, and their combined provision “as a service”, will greatly increase the overall value of the 5G ecosystem, allowing network operators to better manage their networks and to dramatically expand the range of offered applications and services. The current freedom to act on 5G system design and availability of software network paradigms and AI techniques uniquely combine in this historical moment to make it possible to radically improve the future network by endowing it with accurate on-demand localization and analytics.
LOCUS will showcase its solutions in three scenarios: Smart Network Management based on Location Information of 5G equipment; Network-assisted Self-driving Objects; People Mobility & Flow Monitoring.
The LOCUS consortium gathers a diverse blend of high-profile partners including Operators, Vendors, IT industries and SMEs that can make its vision a reality. LOCUS will be an enabler of a myriad of applications for the 5G ecosystem and beyond, boosting vertical industries and creating new business opportunities also for telcos.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
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Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
43124 Parma
Italie