On June 28th, Altice Labs, in Aveiro, hosted the final seminar of the P2020 project “5G-AUTO: Development and testing of 5G V2X technology to support autonomous driving”. The work was carried out through a partnership between Altice Labs, Globalvia MRN, Allbesmart and IPCB, with scenarios being developed in an urban context and in a mobility environment, specifically on the A23 highway.
The 5G-AUTO project aimed to investigate, develop, and test innovative hardware and software solutions to support intelligent C-ITS transport services over the 5G V2X radio telecommunications infrastructure. Throughout the seminar, the challenges and trends of future mobility were discussed, as well as support for innovation in the development of intelligent transportation systems.
The event was attended by several speakers from organizations that, in different ways, play a role in mobility issues, namely: Ricardo Tiago, from the Institute of Mobility and Transport, who presented the challenges of future mobility; Vasco Lagarto, from TICE. PT, who spoke about mobility as a 5G success story; Miguel Antunes, from the National Innovation Agency, who spoke about support for innovation in the field of mobility; Susana Sargento, from the Telecommunications Institute, who presented developments in the field of autonomous mobility; and Eduarda Batista, from Brisa, who spoke about TestBed from the NextGen Mobility project, in which Altice Labs also participates. Filipe Cabral Pinto, from Altice Labs and coordinator of P2020 5G-AUTO, presented the project’s objectives, developments, and results.
At the end of the session, Paulo Marques and Tiago Alves, from Allbesmart, gave a demonstration of the C-ITS platform and the participants were also able to experience the results of 5G-AUTO in a car that drove around the city of Aveiro, where it was possible to observe the C-ITS services developed under the project in a real demonstrator.