Between Portugal and Spain, a semiconductor bus with 5G capability in autonomous driving – Telecomunicações
A dead bike were some of the obstacles that the 5G-Mobix project vehicle faced during the demonstration during the finalwhich took place last week in a real environment on the Valença-Tui international bridge, the Portugal-Spain cross-border that connects Porto to Vigo in project that brings together 58 partners from 13 countries.
The objective was to present the impact of thesolutions that have been tested during the last four years in the innovation project with an experimentation of various scenariosproving that 5G connections guarantee more security, due to low latency and service continuity.
The 5G-Mobix initiative is funded by Horizon 20 and the idea is to prove to legislators and individuals the 5G potential for the development of autonomous and private vehicles, with the highest in the European Union in traffic management and carbon restriction reduction.
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ONE The initiative tested features and services on 5G networks in two cross-border corridors, in Portugal-Spain and Greece-Turkey, as well as in six urban locations, in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea..
“Continuous cross-border transport without delivery of consignment added value to the EU’s single market. There are still connectivity gaps across borders”, highlights Coen Bresser, Senior Manager of Innovation and Development at ERTICO-ITS Europe and coordinator of the 5G-MOBIX project, in a statement.
During the project, tests in various 5G configurations, scenarios and functionalities, which take place on public roads with various traffic conditions, network coverage and service requirements. The 5G-Mobix promoters also consider the different legal and business aspects at each test site, assessing the challenges of the different communications communications between the two sides of the Portugal-Spain border and the interoperability between the various actors, from telecommunications to road and vehicle management.
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The trip that took place on the 14th is the first 5G connected autonomous driving in real environment and public demo circumvented with various obstacle scenarios that are put to the test of responsiveness. The autonomous vehicle, without a driver, was killed confronted with a bicycle on the road and also with the existence of a pedestrian at an angle.
In the first case the vehicle passed control to the traffic control center, a technician took over driving, where, where, virtuallywhile the pedestrian was detected by a sensor installed on the bridge, which passed the network and the bus, while the information was turned on.
“As well as a decisive moment in preparing the future of Autonomous Driving. opportunity to participate in real conditions and with real obstacles in Portugal. And all this in a corridor at an intersection, where it was necessary to attach several challenges related to the network of the two countries”, Jorge Graça, NOS Chief Technology and Information Officer.
The Portuguese operator is one of the project’s partners and the information was transferred by NOS 5G network, which we use technology, in real time, the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and A-to-Be were responsible for the protected vehicles in Ponte Nova and other partners played an important role in the management of highways and during transit.
YOU results of the 5G-Mobix project will now serve as a basis for the definition of new regulations and standards at European levelfor the connected mobility area and for business development in this area.