Recent Projects

EU H2020 5GASP (January 2021 - December 2023)

5GASP aims at shortening the idea-to-market process through the creation of a European testbed for SMEs that is fully automated and self-service, in order to foster rapid development and testing of new and innovative NetApps built using the 5G NFV based reference architecture. Building on top of existing physical infrastructures, 5GASP intends to focus on innovations related to the operation of experiments and tests across several domains, providing software support tools for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of VNFs in a secure & trusted environment for European SMEs capitalizing in the 5G market. 5GASP targets the creation of an Open Source Software (OSS) repository and of a VNF marketplace targeting SMEs with OSS examples and building blocks, as well as the incubation of a community of NetApp developers assisted with tools and services that can enable an early validation and/or certification of products and services for 5G. We focus on inter-domain use-cases, development of operational tools and procedures (supporting day-to-day testing and validation activities) and security/trust of 3rd party IPR running in our testbeds.

Augmanity (June 2020 - June 2023)

The Augmented Humanity Project aims to anticipate the future by developing user-friendly, immersive and supportive technologies in industrial production environments. Through a coordinated strategy between industrial partners and research centers, for the development of relevant technologies and tools that make industrial processes more efficient, less impactful on workers' health, reduce risk and prepare and adapt both processes and human resources for the new digitization paradigms – Industry 4.0.

EU H2020 5GROWTH (June 2019 - November 2021)

The main objective of 5Growth is the technical and business validation of 5G technologies from the verticals’ points of view, following a field-trial-based approach on vertical sites (TRL 6-7). Multiple use cases of vertical industries will be field-trialed on four vertical-owned sites in close collaboration with vendors and operators. 5Growth vision is to empower verticals industries with an AI-driven automated and shareable 5G end-to-end solution that will allow these industries to achieve simultaneously their respective key performance targets.

EU H2020 5GinFIRE (January 2017 - December 2019)

5GinFIRE main technical objective is to build and operate an Open, and Extensible 5G NFV-based Reference (Open5G-NFV) ecosystem of Experimental Facilities that integrates existing FIRE facilities with new vertical-specific ones and enables experimentation of vertical industries. In order to guarantee architectural and technological convergence the proposed environment will be built in alignment with on-going standardization and open source activities. Accordingly, the Open5G-NFV FIRE ecosystem may serve as the forerunner experimental playground wherein innovations may be proposed before they are ported to emerging "mainstream" 5G networks.

P2020 5G Mobilizer (January 2018 - December 2020)

The 5G MOBILIZER project will allow the integrated conception and validation of a set of products, capable of incorporating and provide services in the scope of the future 5G networks, integrating the efforts of different technology enterprises in the field of telecommunications and exploring B2B and B2C models. These products cover the full range of the 5G networks functional domains, with the project reflecting its organization according to that structure: access, core and vertical sectors (differentiated by machine-type communications and human-machine communications). Throughout its existence until December 2020, products for the access network as well as network management and control and security, will be specified and conceived. In addition, they will support services and products of the IoT area (monitoring and controlling energy distribution, railway and vital signaling networks) and broadband multimedia (video streaming and distribution). Finally, within scope of the project, all products from all domains will be integrated, validated, tested and demonstrated into a new 5G services promotion ecosystem, which will benefit from a realistic testing environment.