Fraunhofer IPT and Ericsson launch 5G-Industry Campus Europe
Published on : Monday 16-12-2019
The consortium is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT on the Campus Melaten of RWTH Aachen University.
Aachen, December 13, 2019 (PresseBox) – The aim of the 5G-Industry Campus Europe is to jointly explore – together with companies and research partners – further application areas of the new mobile radio technology 5G in the production field and test them as practical as possible: The consortium, coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT on the Campus Melaten of RWTH Aachen University, is receiving funding of almost 6.2 million Euros from the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in order to set up the regional 5G research network. The institute has now selected Ericsson as its 5G network supplier.
Together with its project partners, the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University and the FIR at the RWTH Aachen University, the Fraunhofer IPT will develop and test applications and solutions for the digitalized and networked production over the next three years. The Swedish mobile network supplier Ericsson is the partner for setting up and developing the required 5G infrastructure.
At the 5G-Industry Campus Europe, the project partners will be investigating different application scenarios in seven subprojects – from 5G sensors for monitoring and controlling highly complex manufacturing processes to mobile robotics, logistics and multi-site production chains. In addition, the Aachen scientists want to test the use of modern edge cloud systems for fast data processing in order to exploit the potential of 5G in networked, adaptive production. German Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven already informed themselves about the concept of a 5G-Industry Campus Europe during the Hannover Messe 2019.