Crossing the border between Greece and Turkey using 5G innovation – ERTICO Newsroom
On 29 June, a webinar hosted by the ERTICO Academy presented the primary activities of the Greek-Turkish cross-border trial passage of the ERTICO-coordinated and EU-funded 5G-MOBIX project. The panel, coordinated by Barbara Basdeki of ICCS, consisted of speakers from Turkcell, Ericsson, Ford Otosan and WINGS ICT Solutions, all partners in the job consortium. Throughout the webinar, an introduction of the trial site passage was provided, providing information on its location, the implementation of the 5G network infrastructure and the development of OBUs/RSUs/applications. User stories around ‘platooning with see-what-I-see performance’ and ‘helped border crossing’ were illustrated. Explanations were also given on the challenges that require to be conquered.
5G-MOBIX is an EU-funded job with 55 partners from 10 European nations including Turkey, China and South Korea. With this vast array consortium of partners, the task really represents the cooperation in between the European ICT market and the worldwide gamers standing at the frontline of 5G development. 5G-MOBIX tests automated automobile functionalities using 5G core technological developments along several cross-border passages and local trial websites, under varying conditions of car traffic, network coverage and service need. As part of its mission, the project examines the advantages of 5G-enabled CCAM in the cross-border context whilst defining release situations and reacting to standardisation and spectrum allowance spaces.
The border crossing between Ipsala Turkey and the Greek town of Kipoi permits business transportation to travel in between the two countries. At this border crossing, there is a customizeds location, where administrative treatments and x-ray look at passing automobiles are performed, and innovations such as truck platooning and assisted border crossing are being executed as a part of the trial. This cross-border corridor is one of the eight trial websites in the task, where the others are the border passage between Portugal and Spain and the 6 pre-deployment trial sites in Germany, China, Finland, France, South Korea and the Netherlands.
Providing the project and the cross-border passage, Nazli Guney of Turkcell said “This project is very important since automated mobility is required for the future in order to fulfill our demands for efficiency and sustainability. To make this occur, cooperative movement requires numerous stars from market to solve the potential challenges. What’s for sure is that there are numerous organisation chances for this sector to exploit.” Companies associated with this project at the border crossing include Ford Otosan, COSMOTE, ICCS, Intrasoft, WINGS, Ericsson (Greece and Turkey) and Turkcell. These companies require to resolve concerns connected to the needed requirement of higher connection and real-time processing in addition to dealing with concerns of trust, accreditation and police.
Ioannis Masmaidis of Ericsson explained the hold-ups dealt with by the job as an outcome of the recent pandemic, however applauded the cooperation within the task and motivation of those who had actually invested resources. Tahir Sari of Ford Otosan presented the ingenious technology involved in platooning and its relevance for business trucks passing through the border. He worried the advantages of platooning as well as the secure and safe application of platooning operations. He likewise provided how the range in between vehicles is safely controlled to ensure that they can be moved swiftly and efficiently even when development in their journey is disrupted by other automobiles.
One continuous difficulty at the border is avoiding the smuggling of goods and trafficking of people through the crossing at the custom-mades area. Ingenious technology is being utilized for this function too. Kostas Trichias showed a new innovation that identifies when unlawful substances, goods or people are consisted of in freight entering the custom-made location. If this is the case, the acknowledgment technology avoids the vehicle from crossing the border and cautions customs of its contents.
The consortium’s vision is to lead the way towards a sustainable and profitable 5G implementation in Europe and beyond, and to significantly advance connected and automatic driving functions beyond the state of the art, and thus to accelerate the take-up of automatic automobiles.