As part of the NEXUS Mobilizing Agenda, of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, a meeting of work group leaders (WP – Work Package) was held at the end of February at the Altice Labs facilities in Aveiro to present and analyze the progress of the project’s activity and general coordination.
The NEXUS Agenda will produce an ecosystem of products and services for the Digital and Green Transition in the transport and multimodal sector. The overall NEXUS offer is made up of 3 main types of components, with one core product at the heart of the entire ecosystem: the open data collaboration platform. The other two additional components are: a set of federated applications and services, and hardware assets, which include, among others, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles), a tugboat and an intelligent command, control and rescue vessel, both zero emissions.
The Nexus Project began in November 2022 and will end in December 2025, with the participation of 35 national entities where the Administration of the ports of Sines and Algarve is the project coordinator.
Altice Labs is coordinating WP6, “NEXUS 5G Connected Port”, in which APS, INESCTEC (Porto), PSA (Sines) and the University of Aveiro, via the Telecommunications Institute, are participating. It is within the scope of this WP6 that, in the second half of this year, Altice Labs will start an operation, at the Sines Container Terminal (or Terminal XXI and concessioned to PSA), of a private 5G Standalone (SA) network integrating its own technology and in which various use cases will be operationalized.