5TONIC Open 5G Lab 5TONIC

Overview

The objective of 5TONIC is to create a global open environment where members from industry and academia, as well as R&D institutions, work together in specific research and innovation projects related to 5G technologies with a view to boost technology and business innovative ventures. The laboratory promotes joint project development and entrepreneurial ventures, discussion fora, events and conference sites in an international environment.

5G is expected to produce transformational, and potentially disruptive, changes to industries and entire economies, having a positive impact on their growth. As 5G becomes embedded in all kinds of devices, machines and services for fifferent industrial segment, it will play a similar role to electricity or transport infrastructures. 5TONIC is the place to develop and test new 5G based products and services in collaboration with other leading industries, suppliers and customers (with special focus on SMEs and start-ups), providing the network infrastructure for these purposes (we define this process as co-creation, as it involves all the stakeholders in the development of products and services). It also supports interoperability testing, so it is feasible to verify in 5TONIC the real interoperation between SME developed SW and the products of main industry (critical in a NFV/SDN environment), as well as among main industry. Finally, 5TONIC is also engaged in the techno-economic evaluation of the different use cases and applications identified, in order to ensure that 5G provides added value. Digital technologies.