Deliverable D5.2 First safe city use cases implementation results
Creators: name: De Lange, Fons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

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 progress to date of the ongoing work 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 aims to provide care as early as possible, before the arrival at the hospital, to prevent irreversibly deterioration and save the life of critical patients. Ultrasound diagnostics at the incident is needed to decide what to do and start the right treatment directly. Tele guidance by a remote expert is very helpful in this case, requiring reliable low latency communication of audio, hires 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 imaging equipment is easier to install, easier to connect and synchronize with other imaging equipment and, easier to keep sterile. This use case will face very low latency requirements and a significant amount of video data to be transferred in real-time, in addition to very high reliability requirements. • UC9: Optimal ambulance routing. This use case addresses real time navigation of an ambulance, both to the site of the emergency situation, 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, 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. Since the release of deliverable D5.1 [47] and internal report IR5.1 [50], all use cases have progressed in terms of the level of detail of their definition, the integration of application components, design of the application architecture, their implementation and testing. Furthermore, considerable progress has been achieved in the definition of the network infrastructure as needed for the implementation of these use cases on the experimental 5G network of the Rennes node. At this point, network deployment in terms of antenna placement, available frequency bands, base stations and edge/core networks has been defined. 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. Implementation and testing of the use cases on the Rennes 5G network is an ongoing activity. First test results have been achieved and are reported in this document. Compared to the original plan, there is some delay in execution of the use case implementation and network installation due to the inaccessibility of sites, because of the COVID-19 crisis. However, by having adopted different ways of working, we think that this delay will be recovered by the end of the project. This deliverable D5.2 is in line with the ongoing activities of the other work packages, in particular: • WP2 – Use cases design for the definition of the involved use cases, see in particular the deliverable D2.1 [22] and D2.2 [41]; • WP3 – Network architecture and deployment for the selection of the technologies to be deployed and the actual deployment of the trials, references are in the deliverable D3.1 [23] and D3.2 [42]; • WP7 – System Integration and evaluation for the evaluation of the overall achieved results [26]; • WP8 – Business validation and exploitation for their impact on techno-economic plans, the reference documentation is the deliverable D8.1 [25].