The private 5G deployment is part of an effort aimed at fostering an ecosystem of open 5G campus networks in Germany and other European markets.
Private 5G solutions provider IS-Wireless will set up a private 5G network at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Germany as part of the so-called CampusOS, an initiative aimed at fostering an ecosystem of open 5G campus networks in Germany and other European markets.
Fraunhofer HHI is co-coordinator of the CampusOS flagship project. The project consortium includes several industrial companies, such as Bosch, Siemens, Rohde & Schwarz and Deutsche Telekom. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Change (BMWK).
“IS-Wireless’ equipment will contribute to the design goals of the upcoming, highly sought-after 5G-based campus networks in the German market. These networks will support industrial applications such as Industry 4.0, such as the coordination of fleets of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) or 3D mapping of storage areas to improve internal transport processes,” IS-Wireless said.
“Further use cases include connected construction sites and construction logistics, where it is essential to coordinate decentralized and partially mobile work processes in near real time based on a digital twin of the construction site. In such applications, optimal placement of the data processing infrastructure is essential as well as mechanisms to ensure that unnecessary interference does not lead to disruption of existing sensors. IS-Wireless addresses these issues with private 5G,” he added.
The company will deliver O-DU (Open RAN Distributed Unit), O-CU (Open RAN Centralized Unit) and Near-RT RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller), which can be installed both indoors and outdoors, to one of Fraunhofer HHI’s facilities in Berlin.
The company said it has already deployed its private 5G solutions at the Werner von Siemens Center for Industry and Science in Berlin, where the network will be used to control connected and autonomous mobile robots.
In the CampusOS project, Fraunhofer HHI is currently developing open components for 5G campus networks and is also building a reference test field to evaluate their end-to-end performance. The Institute’s work aims to lower the entry barriers for SMEs in the field of radio access networks, enabling smaller companies to participate in the mobile communications market at low cost.
