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”
Call for papers
5G!Drones project co-organizes with EU-Korea PriMO-5G project the Aerial Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks (AERCOMM) workshop, colocated with IEEE WCNC 2020, 6-9 April 2020, Seoul. Call for papers submission deadline December 31, 2019! You are welcome to submit your paper. Read more “Call for papers – AEROCOMM Workshop”
Presentation
Prof. Ari Pouttu (University of Oulu) presented the 5G!Drones at the poster session of 5GTNF Results and Demo Seminar in Helsinki, Finland, on 1st of November 2019.
More details for 5GTNF are available at http://5gtnf.fi/5gtnf-results-and-demo-seminar/
Publications
5G!Drones paper “Dynamic slicing of RAN resources for heterogeneous coexisting 5G services” by Eurecom partner 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. Read more “5G!Drones paper accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2019”
Presentation
Tero Vuorenmaa (Robots Expert) presented Urban Air Mobility requirements and 5G!Drones project in ITS World Congress 2019 in Singapore on 24 October 2019. More information about the event are available at https://itsworldcongress2019.com/
Meeting
The 2nd GA meeting of 5G!Drones took place in Cosmote premises in Athens, Greece, 15 to 17 October 2019. The 5G!Drones partners met in order to evaluate progress, analyze use cases, work on upcoming deliverables and milestones. During the meeting sessions on 5G and drones technologies took place and plans were made concerning the next Read more “5G!Drones 2nd GA Meeting in Athens”
Meeting
The 5G-PPP Technology Board meeting and Technical Workshop on key enablers for 5G Experimentation took place on 8-10 October 2019 at University of Malaga. The event was hosted by Prof. Pedro Merino Gomez from University of Malaga (TM of 5GENESIS and Malaga Platform Leader) at the premises of University of Malaga, Spain. Read more “5G-PPP Technology Board meeting and Technical Workshop”
Presentation
Dr. Jussi Haapola (University of Oulu), 5G!DRONES project coordinator, presented 5G!DRONES project and the opportunities 5G can bring to UAV transport sector at Digital Transport Days, October 9th, 2019 – What can 5G bring to each mode of transport? in Helsinki. The European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), in cooperation with the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the Read more “5G!Drones in Digital Transport Days Conference, Helsinki”
News
The first issue of 5G!Drones newsletter has been released. 5G!Drones newsletters will be issued on a quarterly basis and they will keep you updated with the latest project’s news and achievements. A dedicated newsletters webpage has been designed in 5G!Drones web site where you may access and download current and past issues of newsletters. Read more “5G!Drones Newsletter – Issue 1”