Deliverable D5.4 Final Safe City use case result
Creators: name: Imadali, Sofiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: One of the three main themes addressed by the 5G-TOURS project is the safe-city, focusing on connected and remote healthcare use cases enhanced by 5G technology. This document describes the outcome of the work performed during the course of the project in work package 5 (WP5). In WP5, the following use cases are defined, being designed and implemented to address the safe city theme: • UC6 - Health monitoring and incident driven communications prioritization. This use case addresses solutions for remote health monitoring of people, especially patients with a critical and/or chronic disease. This involves remote health monitoring technology /services and reliable / timely technology /services to notify relevant care professionals and family members in case of detected health deterioration and/or acute care needs. • UC7 - Teleguidance for diagnostics and intervention support. This use case shows the importance of providing care as early as possible, before the arrival at the hospital, to prevent irreversible deterioration and save the life of critical patients. Ultrasound diagnostics at the incident site are needed to decide what to do and start the right treatment directly. Teleguidance by a remote expert proved to be of vital importance in this case, requiring reliable low latency communication of audio, high resolution video and ultrasound images. • UC8 - Wireless Operating Room. The goal of the use case is to demonstrate the impact of 5G inside the operating room. Among other things, advantages are that wireless imaging devices are easier to install, connect and synchronize with other imaging equipment and easier to keep sterile. This use case will face low latency and high reliability requirements in addition to a significant amount of video data to be transferred in real-time. • UC9 - Optimal ambulance routing. This use case addresses real time navigation of an ambulance, both to the site of the emergency, to ensure that medical help will be provided as quickly as possible, as well as from the incident site to the hospital. This will prevent loss of time due to e.g., traffic, road works/blocks as much as possible. The goal is to improve the overall health outcome for the patient by minimizing the time-to-care. The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated, and still is accelerating the demand for connected healthcare solutions, which has further elevated the relevancy of these use cases since the start of the 5G-TOURS project. All use cases are finalized in terms of their definition, the integration of application components, design of the application architecture, their implementation and testing. Furthermore, the definition of the network infrastructure needed for the implementation of these use cases on the experimental 5G network of the Rennes node is described in its final setup. Network deployment in terms of antenna placement, available frequency bands, base stations and edge/core networks is also defined, deployment achieved, and testing done to meet initial commitments to the project. This includes the definition of VNFs, UPF and CPF allocation, VPNs between hospital, BCOM premise and the 5G EVE core network of Orange in their Châtillon datacenter. Also, the overall network architecture has been designed, while the above-mentioned VPNs have been characterized. Antennas have been integrated, deployed and been tested for both Rennes locations. Compared to the original plan, the execution delay of use case implementation, network installation, and trial, due to the inaccessibility of critical sites, because of the COVID-19 crisis, have been absorbed by the end of the project thanks to the adoption of different ways of working and the resiliency of the project team. This deliverable D5.4 is in line with the activities of the other work packages, in particular: • WP2 – NEST templates definition for the slices deployment on 5G networks; • WP3 – Network architecture and deployment for the selection of the technologies to be deployed and innovations of the service layer; • WP7 – System Integration and evaluation for the evaluation of the overall achieved results; • WP8 – Business validation and exploitation for their impact on techno-economic plans.