Who is INTRASOFT and what’s its role in 5G-MOBIX?

INTRASOFT is a leading European IT Solutions and Services Group with a strong international presence in 13 countries and offers innovative and added-value solutions to a wide range of more than 700 international and national public and private organisations. Specifically, the Research and Innovation Development (RID) Department works in close collaboration with other INTRASOFT teams to bring technological and business innovation within the Group and contributes directly to 5G-MOBIX. Within the project, INTRASOFT International is contributing to the Greek-Turkish Cross-Border Corridor and leads the work on “Deployment Enablers” (in the project this is referred to WP6). The purpose of this task is to allow the work we perform in the Cross-Border Corridors to reach significant impacts and make targeted suggestions for policy recommendations to enable a future-forward deployment of 5G.

This year INTRASOFT achieved an important result in the project regarding a set of four reports (deliverables) on 5G technologies and CCAM. How are these results important for 5G-MOBIX?

The work performed on Deployment Enablers is crucial to 5G-MOBIX because it allows us to uncover potential significant barriers to innovation and propose targeted recommendations to alleviate their negative effects. WP6 aims to prepare the path with targeted suggestions and knowledge sharing. This will create awareness and, as an effect, build trust on the topic of 5G as something that can improve its future adoption as a crucial CCAM cornerstone. The WP6 team focused on recommendations for essential cooperation, business, technical and regulatory innovations that were collected through a process of extensive participatory discussions with stakeholders, both internal and external to the consortium. WP6 also performed the first Stakeholder survey, to gauge the status of cooperation among stakeholders and their motivations for investing in 5G-CCAM. The research conducted has revealed several challenges on the weak areas, allowing room for significant contributions when it comes to the improvement of technologies, processes and legislation. More specifically, the areas noted are detailed below:

• Ensuring service continuity across borders,
• Need for 5G-CCAM data pilots,
• Simplifying Service Level Agreement negotiations for GRX connections,
• Flexible leasing of additional spectrum to MNOs on the process side,
• Particularisation of the current Roaming regulations in Europe, to account for the specificities of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Roaming.

The final outcome of this work would be detailed in a set of valuable policy recommendations and an important roadmap for future-proof 5G. An interested reader may also refer to the following documents, available on 5G-MOBIX website:

• D6.1 Plan and preliminary report on the deployment options for 5G technologies for CCAM,

• D6.2 Plan and preliminary report on the business models for cross border 5G deployment enabling CCAM,

• D6.3 Plan and preliminary report on the standardisation and spectrum allocation needs,

• D6.4 Plan and preliminary report on EU policies and regulations recommendations.

Can 5G-CCAM create new business opportunities, and if so, which ones and for whom?

An important outcome of 5G-MOBIX is the detailed description of new business models surrounding 5G-enabled Connected, Cooperative, Automated Mobility (CCAM). The use of the Value Network model allowed us to map the interactions between stakeholders in 5G-CCAM, while the use of the Business Model Canvas showed us that there is a large variety of value propositions. The key take-away is that there is significant potential for the creation of new products and services on the basis of 5G-enabled CCAM, for example:

• Advanced driving services like remote driving, platooning, etc.
• Data-driven services like next-generation traffic management,
• Infrastructure services like big data management, operational and business support systems,
• Hardware-based products, i.e. Sensors, On-board units, Road-side Units etc.
• 5G and Cloud Computing products such as infrastructure monitoring, fault management, etc.

Why should a stakeholder invest on 5G-CCAM?

Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility has long been heralded as the way forward when it comes to inclusive, safe and environmentally friendly transportation. Our work in 5G-MOBIX confirms 5G as a main driving force and proves that it has the capacity to support the most advanced CCAM services. Through an extensive patent search, we noticed that 91% of related patents were submitted after 2014 and there are no signs yet of slowing down. This is considered a potential indicator that we are very far from market saturation and there is significant potential for the creation of new 5G products. As 5G starts its commercial deployments around the EU, this is an opportune moment for interested parties to be at the forefront of innovation and profit from additional investment in 5G-CCAM. It is important to also note that investing on 5G-CCAM can directly contribute to the increase of regional and EU competitiveness and bring societal benefits (such as reduction in number of traffic collisions, inclusive travel etc.), as well as financial ones.