Deliverable D4.1 Robotic, Media and Smart Cities solutions for Touristic Cities
Creators: name: Sacco, Giancarlo
name: Piccinino, Mara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: 5 th Generation cellular network (5G) is expected to be the communication technology that empowers a radical shift from a horizontal service model to a vertical one, where telecom network services are tailored to the specific vertical use case needs they address. 5G-TOURS will deploy full end-to-end trials to bring 5G to real users in many representative scenarios. The magnitude of the touristic sector in Europe and the value created to tourists by these services provide an ideal platform for the creation of economic value and potential for high impact within Europe’s economy. The objective of this Work Package (WP) is to implement the touristic city use cases (UC) that will demonstrate the 5G technology benefits to citizens and tourists by providing added value services within the visited touristic attractions as well as media applications to complement their visit. This WP (WP4 – Touristic city use cases implementation) addresses the deployment and validation of the touristic city use cases hosted in the Turin node related to enhanced museum visits (VR Virtual Reality support and robot-assisted tours), smart city applications (such as management of large crowds), interaction with robots, as well as links with life-long education and broadcasting of media contents (high quality video even with remote and distributed production). This deliverable reports on the set of identified use cases for the touristic city (media production and distribution, safety and security in smart cities, museum and education, robotics) and their implementation on the 5G-TOURS platform within the Turin site. The Touristic City of 5G-TOURS is a place where visitors of museums and outdoor attractions are provided with 5G-based applications to enhance their experience while visiting the city. This includes Virtual Reality (VR)/ Augmented Reality (AR) applications to complement the physical visit with additional content, involving interactive tactile communications. The visitors’ experience is further enhanced with robot-assisted services, telepresence to allow for remote visits, as well as live events enabled by mobile communications such as multiparty concerts. The scope of this deliverable - which is the first document of WP4 - is to describe the identified five vertical use cases from the “end – user”1 point of view, as well as to list the main phases and components of the trial, which will be then further investigated and detailed in the operational design phase. To deploy the envisaged use cases, 5G-TOURS initially exploits the facilities built within the 5G-EVE project, which is one of the three European ICT-17 projects in charge of building end-to-end facilities to support a variety of vertical field trials of which the “Touristic city” UCs are some of the possible applications. In the second phase 5G-TOURS will evolve its network infrastructure in accordance to UCs needs and network components availability. Turin “Touristic city” site will develop and test 5G-enabled services regarding the following use cases: • UC 1 - Augmented tourism experience • UC 2 - Telepresence • UC 3 - Robot-assisted museum guide • UC 4 - High quality video services distribution • UC 5 - Remote and distributed video production.