5G-IANA - Situational awareness in cross border road tunnel accidents

This use case aims to develop and integrate necessary components (e.g., VNFs, RSU, OBUs, sensors, camera, 5G SA network, and 5G MEC) to provide situational awareness for first responders intervening in the cross-border road tunnel. In case of an accident in the tunnel, situational awareness systems will enable first responders to understand specific conditions of the tunnel incident, such as the number of involved vehicles, temperature, humidity, certain gas levels, etc.

RSU and sensors connected to it, as well as OBUs, will provide environmental data sensed in a tunnel, including a real-time video stream. VNFs deployed in RSU, and OBUs will take care of collecting and initial processing of the collected data and will provide data transmission to the MEC, where monitoring, analytics and streaming VNFs will take care of collecting and further processing these data. One of the most important benefits expected to be achieved by using orchestrated 5G network is the cross-border collaboration of first responders which is in real life still faced with many issues as a consequence of each single PPDR administrative domain operating its own communication system (or, at least incompatible with the cross-border one). Utilizing the 5G system in both/all PPDR administrative domains will help create applications that all PPDR users should be able to consume. All components forming the solution will be generic and therefore applicable to any 5G network providing required conditions (e.g., eMBB network slice, latency requirements, etc.). To enable cross-border data sharing, the two networks will need to be connected in a proper way (e.g., VPN), as well, certain security rules will need to be established in order to prevent any data privacy or similar issues while transferring data across borders.