Nokia Bell Labs said it is leading the WIreless for VErticals (WIVE) colloboration project involving Teleste, Telia, ABB, Cargotec Kalmar, broadcasting YLE, Digita, regulator Ficora, Finnish universities and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The Tekes innovation agency is providing some of the funding. The aim is to help new types of industry to gain competitive advantage from the latest wireless technologies, especially 5G.
It said the surge in connected devices will benefit transportation, resource consumption, learning, work and medical treatment, but there will be new capacity requirements for networks.
The WIVE project is due to run for two years. It will focus on media and entertainment, and on machine-type connectivity for application areas. These include Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) for sectors such as smart grids and remotely controlled machines, and massive Machine Type Connectivity (mMTC), where many devices are connected at 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.
The WIVE project implements pilots based on industry-driven use cases through 5GTNF testbeds such as TAKE-5 and 5GTN Plus. WIVE is investigating and promoting flexible spectrum policies and management schemes to unlock new assets for 5G.
Janne Koistinen, director of Telia 5G programme in Finland, said it is looking at evolving media consumption patterns and developing new spectator services such as at the Telia 5G Arena in Helsinki and as part of its agreement for Finnish Ice Hockey League media rights.
Dick Kronman, manager of ABB's Grid Automation Solutions business, said much greater automation, along 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.
