Conference
5G!Drones partners DroneRadar and Frequentis participated at panel discussion and presented, during the EASA Technical workshop on U-Space services of the High Level Conference on Drones (Drone week) in Amsterdam on 5-6/12/2019, innovative ideas which come out of the synergy between UTM and 5G network and have applicability to Read more “5G!Drones in Drone week – Amsterdam”
Trials
Orange France, 5G!Drones partner, conducted an experiment of a tethered drone embedding a cellular base station based on Open Air Interface, acting as a connectivity bubble, at French championships of Windsurf in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon Read more “5G!Drones trials at French Windsurf championships”
News
The second issue of 5G!Drones newsletter has been released. You may access it here. 5G!Drones newsletters are issued on a quarterly basis and they keep you updated with the latest project’s news and achievements. A dedicated newsletters webpage exists in 5G!Drones web site where you may Read more “5G!Drones Newsletter – Issue 2”
Publications
Congratulations to the Aalto University editing team! 5G!Drones paper “Toward a UTM-based Service Orchestration for UAVs in MEC-NFV Environment” by Aalto University, was accepted at 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2019), Hawaii, Read more “5G!Drones paper accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2019”
Conference
Cosmote partner presented 5G!Drones at INFOCOM WORLD CONFERENCE 2019 – “Economy 4.0: Connected Future” on Tuesday 26 November 2019 in Athens, Greece. Digital development now transforms all economy sectors, and this overall transformation was the axis around Read more “5G!Drones presentation at INFOCOM World Conference 2019, Athens”
Presentation
5G!Drones project was presented by Dr. Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, 5GENESIS project coordinator) during the 6th 5GENESIS GA meeting at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, explaining how 5G!Drones will use the 5GENESIS Athens Read more “5G!Drones presented at 5GENESIS 6th GA meeting”
Publications
5G!Drones paper “Efficient Steering Mechanism for Mobile Network-enabled UAVs” by Aalto University, was accepted at 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2019), Hawaii, USA, 9 -13 December 2019. You may read the paper at our website.
Presentation
Dr. Lechosław Tomaszewski (Orange Poland) and Tanel Järvet (CAFA Tech) presented “5G!Drones trials – how to match UAV business cases, drone capabilities and 5G test facilities“ on 8 November 2019 in the 10th FOKUS FUSECO 2019 Forum – Berlin, Germany.
Presentation
Tero Vuorenmaa (Robots Expert) presented “Is UAM ready for business?” focused on challenges of the Urban Air Mobility and 5G!Drones as a use case of activity towards 5G connected drones, on 8 November 2019 in the 25th FRUCT2019 conference Helsinki, Finland.
Trials
CAFA Tech conducted 2 initial field trials with DJI Mavic Pro drone and 5G smartphones, testing 5G aspects that will be used in 5G!Drones use cases. In specific, CAFA Tech conducted tests with DJI Mavic Pro drone and 5G smartphones on 24th October 2019 in Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Measured Results: Stream upload: 21 Mbps and Ping: 11 ms. In addition, CAFA Tech conducted also 5G drone test flight on 1st of Read more “5G!Drones initial field trials”