Enabling cross-border tele-operated transport in the 5G Era: The 5G Blueprint approach

Abstract

5G systems promise to enable autonomous vehicles by empowering road-, water-, and air-vehicles with ultra low latency communications and computing at edge in order to share and process data from multiple sensors. However, in order to realize such fully Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) for cars, drones and vessels, a crucial intermediary step must be fully achieved: 5G-based tele-operated transport. In order to do so, the European project H2020 5G-Blueprint aims to design, test, and validate in real deployments a 5G-enabled tele-operated transport and its enabling functions in both a relevant and operational environment realised through cross-border trials on the road and on the water along 5G corridors in the Dutch and Belgian border area, resulting in a blueprint for future cooperation on 5G-enabled CAM between public, private and semi-private parties (e.g. ports), gaining new and innovative insights on the stringent particular requirements for safe CAM, on the architecture, on governance and relevant business models.