5G-EVE: Smart Transport: Intelligent Railway for Smart Mobility

This use case involves the streaming of HD media contents for entertainment and infotainment for the passengers on the daily high-speed trains, with streaming data received from video sources outside the trains. The planned pilot will take place in Turin in 2021. 

5G-EVE End-to-End Facilities

5G-EVE aims to create the foundations for a pervasive roll-out of end-to-end 5G networks in Europe, by offering facilities to validate network KPIs and services across industry verticals and R&I projects in Europe's 5G PPP, phase 3. Several verticals are 5G-EVE partners to help shape the design of end-to-end 5G services and make an early assessment. 

The 5G-EVE end-to-end facilities interconnect four 5G-site-facilities (France, Spain, Italy, Greece), with this pilot using the Italian facility. 

Overall, the facilities will enable 5G demonstrations and pilots through: 

• Heterogeneous access, including NR, licensed/unlicensed spectrum, advanced spectrum management.
• Mobile Edge Computing, backhaul, core/service technologies.
• Means for site-interworking and multi-site/domain/technology slicing/orchestration.

5G-EVE will be initially compliant with 3GPP Release 15 (Non-standalone) and, later on, with Release 16 (Standalone; completed in June 2020). 

Industrial verticals are supported in their specification and/or analysis of demonsrations and pilots through:

• Intent-based, and other high-level, interfaces.
• Means for advanced 5G testing, that is, for KPI analysis, technology bench-marking, performance diagnosis: a VNF pool, including open source and proprietary, radio/network/service, components will be developed and made available.

Organisations involved in the pilot on Intelligent Railway for Smart Mobility

Industry Vertical: Trenitalia; Operator: TIM; Network vendor: Ericsson Italy; Network-savvy SME: Nextworks s.r.l., Italy; Research institute: CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications), Italy; Public-sector: City Council of Turin. Other: Ares2t (Internet marketing service company; SME; 5G mobility)