European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond
July 2021
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union USEFUL LINKS
Find the SME you need www.networldeurope.eu/find-the-sme-you-need-new-page
NetworldEurope SME WG www.networldeurope.eu/sme-wg/
NetworldEurope European Technology Platform www.networldeurope.eu
5G Public-Private Partnership www.5g-ppp.eu
This document is released in July 2021 by the NetworldEurope SME Working Group, with support from the Full5G project, from the NetworldEurope European Technology Platform, and from the 5G Infrastructure Association. JACQUES MAGEN NICOLA CIULLI AUSTRALO Nextworks Chair of the NetworldEurope Vice-chair of the SME Working Group NetworldEurope SME Working Group
EDITORIAL I am very pleased to present the 6th edition of the “SME brochure”. This is the first I am very glad to join once more our SME WG Chair, Jacques one to be published under the umbrella of “NetworldEurope”, the new name of Magen, in introducing this updated edition of the “SME the European Technology Platform previously called “NetWorld2020”. As we are brochure”. Now that the 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G (already!) in 2021, this change of name was required. PPP) is living in the last batch of research and innovation The number of members in the SME Working Group is still regularly increasing, projects running and the numbers about SME participation providing also additional members to NetworldEurope. By June 2021, there are 195 are final, we can see that the PPP has been a great success members in the Group, including 179 SMEs, an increase of 10% since the last edition from this view point. that was released 6 months ago. While the past has gone, and the future (Horizon Europe) Several new SMEs are presented in this edition, along with revisions and updates. has started, our community is waiting (and working after) the Synthetic information on SMEs may also be found on the “Find the SME you need” web Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), the page1, that displays both the expertise and skills of SMEs in 5G-related technology, natural successor of the 5G PPP. Once more, SMEs have done and their involvement in vertical sectors. New SME success stories have been added and are doing their part in supporting the other stakeholders on the web page and in this edition of the brochure. (large enterprises, academia and research institutions) along the trip towards this new European Partnership. One of the main objectives of the activities of the SME WG was to help reach 20% SME participation in the 5G PPP. The SME participation in 5G PPP projects has finally Maybe we can see the light at the end of the pandemic exceeded the original objective of 20% defined as a Key Performance Indicator of the tunnel, but the path is still dotted with uncertainties on programme. According to the H2020 dashboard, the participation of SMEs in the 5G when things will return back to normal, and how. We still PPP has reached 21.95% of EU funding, representing a total of 156.3 M€. SMEs have cannot predict the extent of the economic consequences in contributed to 24.43% of the total participation in 5G PPP projects. 65% of the SMEs the coming months or years. For sure, the technology from participated in one project, and 35% in two or more projects. our communities and domains has confirmed its paramount importance, to mitigate the effects of this worldwide 167 SMEs are participating in 5G PPP Phase 3 projects, for a total EC funding in the challenges, and to restart the economy. range of 100 M€. Although the participation of SMEs in 5G PPP projects has been quite stable throughout the various phases of the programme, Phase 3, and more We can easily bet that many of the actors that will translate especially the call dedicated to “5G innovations for verticals with third party services”, this promise into concrete actions and results will be SMEs. allowed the participation of SMEs to finally exceed the objective2. The EC funding for We really hope the new SNS JU and NetworldEurope will SMEs reached 49% in this specific call, in line with the recommendation from the support them, providing the best ground and support call text that “50% of SMEs are targeted for this action”. Remarkably enough, despite for their research & development and, ultimately, market the peak in participation with this call for Innovation Actions (IAs), the global level of success. participation of SMEs in Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) and in IAs is similar overall in the 5G PPP.
To reach this successful outcome, the SME WG has been working closely with the 5G 1 https://www.networldeurope.eu/find-the-sme-you-need-new-page/ Infrastructure Association (5G IA). Dedicated SME-related web pages were regularly 2 All figures are extracted from the H2020 dashboard https://webgate.ec.euro- revisited and updated, to match the various topics in the 5G PPP calls. pa.eu/dashboard/ 3 https://www.networldeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sme-wg-sns-po- Another important objective of the SME WG in the past year was to prepare the sition-paper-final.pdf?x70854 participation of SMEs in the upcoming Smart Networks and Services (SNS) Partnership within Horizon Europe. The SME WG issued a dedicated “SNS Position Paper”3, and is The SME Working Group (WG) is gathering 190+ members including 170+ SMEs. supporting the contribution of SMEs to the SNS work programme. About 350 SMEs are members of NetworldEurope, the European Technology Platform for telecommunications and related services and applications. Jacques With the launch of Horizon Europe and of the SNS Partnership, and the addition of Magen from AUSTRALO and Nicola Ciulli from Nexwtorks are respectively Chair complementary domains such as IoT, cloud, data, AI and others, the SME ecosystem and Vice-Chair of the SME WG. The current SME representatives in the 5G IA Board around 5G and beyond and 6G shall be strengthened. This is the task that now lies are Nicola Ciulli and David Kennedy (Eurescom). The SME WG has been supported ahead, and we will do all we can to continue promoting the skills and expertise of by the Full5G Coordination and Support Action until end of August 2021. If you SMEs within the broader SNS ecosystem, to exploit the opportunities that lie ahead wish to join the SME Working Group, please send a request to sme-wg-contact@ for all SMEs with the continuous deployment of 5G and the beginning of the 6G networldeurope.eu. adventure. RUI L. AGUIAR COLIN WILLCOCK NetworldEurope Steering Chairman of Board Chair the Board, 5G IA
“The last time we engaged in the production of this brochure we were On behalf of the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA), I welcome living in a very different world”. That was the (at the time naïve) way the opportunity to write an editorial for this new version of the I started this editorial last year. As we all are aware off, 2020 was a SME brochure. With the world slowly recovering from the effects of year like no other. Society saw a disruptive pandemic raging through Covid-19, it is important to invest in the future. In our industry, SMEs our countries, major changes on the European Union occurred (from play a key role here. They offer the promise to contribute to future the Brexit discussions to the new recovery budgets), and the approval growth and opportunities as we try and recover from the terrible of the Horizon Europe programme has somewhat lingered slowly in effects of the virus. SMEs have the ability to bring new ideas tothe these times. But the overall message of last year still remains valid. In market and the flexibility to experiment and eventually become the these changing times, SMES are increasingly relevant for the European major players of the future. society. The flexibility, eagerness and drive for innovation, that so The 5G-IA is committed to supporting SMEs in Europe. In the context many European SMEs possess, are essential for the development of the 5G Public Private Partnership (5G PPP), a 700 million Euro joint of our lives – we have seen many SMEs in the forefront of new initiative between the European Commission and the European ICT technologies for addressing the challenges of our current situation, industry, the 5G-IA has been active to ensure a high SME participation. providing fast responses to the needs of our changed environment, This is because, SMEs are recognized as the catalyst for innovation. including innovative responses to these new pandemic challenges Their ability for “out of the box” thinking and their agility to rapidly we have been facing. As we see the recovery from COVID, with the develop and test ideas in multiple sectors, have been important assets European Recovery plans, SMEs will continue to rise to the challenges in the industrial digitization of the so-called vertical industries. Joining of the disruption that has descended upon all of us. forces between SMEs and the key ICT companies has been one of the NetworldEurope, the European Technology Platform that collects key factors driving the overall success of the 5G PPP programme. the efforts of all entities interested in telecommunications and associated technologies, is proud to count 350+ very dynamic SMEs inside its constituency. SMEs have been an essential part on, and a Moving forward, the 5G-IA together with other key industry key contributor to, the work we performed. The SME working group associations, are driving the formation a new partnership called Smart has been key in intertwining the realities of innovation in European Networks and Services (SNS) to lay the foundations for 6G. Our hope context and the constraints of SMEs, actively working to facilitate this is this important initiative will start later in 2021. The partnership will two-way street, and have become now engaged in contributing to the ensure European leadership in the creation of the next generation upcoming Smart Networks and Services (SNS) work programme. The network technologies and services. The above-mentioned abilities that group basic mandate of improving the interest of SMEs for European SMEs will bring in this new Partnership will be of central importance to research, and promoting the advantages of collaborating with SMEs create novel services and technological breakthroughs. These will be inside the research and innovation communities, will be more eventually transformed into valuable solutions for vertical industries important than ever with the new SNS Partnership arriving. With the thus, creating new jobs and improving the everyday life of European upcoming Horizon Europe programme, novel opportunities will exist citizens. for SMEs, most especially because our relations with other industries (the “vertical markets”) are going to increase.
We are confident that the contribution of SMEs to European-funded research will continue to increase, and we see SMEs – now more than ever - providing a guiding line for the future diversity of our communications ecosystem, with the ability to smoothly develop cross-disciplinary innovation in segmented markets.
Best of luck to all SMEs, and hope you remain ambitious in your objectives to overcome the testing times we will face this year!
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COMPANY PROFILES
ACCELLERAN 6 M.B.I. 41 ACTA 7 MONTIMAGE 42 AETHERIC ENGINEERING 8 NEARBY COMPUTING S.L. 43 APPART 9 NEMERGENT SOLUTIONS 44 ARCTOS LABS 10 NEUTROON TECHNOLOGIES S.L. 45 ARTEEVO 11 NEXTWORKS 46 AUSTRALO 12 NOUVEAUCOMM 47 AZCOM TECHNOLOGY 13 PURELIFI LTD 48 BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL 14 QUOBIS 49 C TECH BILIŞIM TEKNOLOJILERI SAN. VE TIC. A.Ş. 15 QUOTIENT ASSOCIATES 50 CUMUCORE 16 REAL WIRELESS 51 CYBERETHICS LAB. 17 REDMILL MARKETING ASSOCIATES 52 DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY 18 RFSAT 53 EANTC 19 RUNEL 54 EBOS TECHNOLOGIES 20 SEVEN SOLUTIONS 55 ECOM SCOTLAND LIMITED 21 SIKLU 56 EGM 22 SOLIDSHIELD 57 EIGHT BELLS LTD 23 SRS 58 EPITOMICAL 24 SUITE5 59 FIVECOMM 25 SUPER RADIO AS 60 FOGUS 26 SYNDESIS LTD 61 GIGASYS SOLUTIONS 27 TECHNARTS 62 HOLISTIC INNOVATION 28 TELCARIA 63 INCELLIGENT 29 TREE TECHNOLOGY 64 INFOLYSIS 30 TST 65 INTERNET INSTITUTE 31 UBITECH 66 IQUADRAT 32 UBIWHERE 67 IS-WIRELESS 33 URBAN HAWK 68 ITTI 34 VERTICAL M2M 69 JCP-CONNECT 35 VISIONA 70 KAAM INNOVACIÓN Y TECNOLOGÍA SL 36 WEST AQUILA 71 LIONIX INTERNATIONAL 37 WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS 72 LIVEU 38 ZEETTA NETWORKS 73 MAGISTER SOLUTIONS 39 ZENITHWINGS, LDA. 74 MARTEL 40 SME SUCCESS STORIES 75 SME MEMBERS 97 5 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2013 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 25 MORE INFORMATION www.accelleran.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MFG. ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Accelleran provides Mobile RAN/vRAN Accelleran delivers across the globe carrier Accelleran seeks European and software and 4G/5G Small Cell product grade RAN/vRAN Software and Small Cell International RIA, IA, FTI, MSCA... actions solutions addressing the real-world products in different architectures. From and in general any Research, Development challenges of increasing data volumes and the versatile, robust, small, lightweight and and Innovation cooperation projects 5G applications, calling for hyperdense outdoor integrated E1000 Series Small Cell to underpin the future of mobile RAN/ networks. Accelleran’s unique software in different band variants including CBRS, to vRAN solutions enabling hyperconnected, architecture is genuinely independent the ORAN-aligned Cloud Native Virtualised ubiquitous, efficient and dense networks. from any hardware platform. Operators dRAX Open Interface RAN Intelligence 5G, IoT, Satellite Communications and Next can leverage one software solution for enabling AI/ML xApps in an open, Generation Internet are some of the areas integrated small cells and for disaggregated scalable and interoperable RAN platform. we focus on to enable different vertical and virtualised RAN networks with slicing Accelleran won the 2017 TechTour TOP sectors such as Transport & Logistics, and edge capabilities. With a global EVC Final, the 2018 Small Cell Forum Award Manufacturing, Energy, Smart Cities and Cellular Industry’s leading design team, in the category Outstanding Innovation in Public Safety with the networks of the Accelleran is the technology choice for Small Cell Technology/Architecture and future. carrier grade, reliable, performant Small the 2018 TEAC (TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Cells and Radio Access Network software Centre) UK Wave 2 program. Accelleran solutions for Fixed Wireless Access, Public has successfully participated in Belgian Mobile, Private Network, Neutral Host or 5GUARDS and UK 5GRuralFirst projects IoT/Vertical solution providers. Accelleran and currently participates in 5GCity, four core service activities are Consulting & 5G-Enhance, UNICORE, 5G-CLARITY and Design, SW Engineering, Test & Integration 5G-COMPLETE European and joint EU/ and Research (7 H2020 5G related projects). Japan projects.
6 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2002 www.acta.com.gr ACTA LTD NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT Advanced Communications Testing Applications 8 [email protected]
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ACTA Ltd is an SME founded in October ACTA has provided to Telecom Operators ACTA Ltd is interested in cooperating with 2002 in Athens, Greece. Our expertise and in Greece, transmission performance other parties that focus on optical, mobile, experience is as a provider and integrator of monitoring solutions. Based on ACTA’s radio and access networks. Special focus long-term performance analysis monitoring KPI Management & Validation Platform is on the technology areas of monitoring solutions as well as ad-hoc network and HW probes. Collected data help in sensors, electromagnetic fields monitoring, measurements. Main focus is on Telecoms, Operations and Capacity Planning. Raw data, 5G – IoT, machine learning software and edge IT, Electronics and EMF & EMC technologies, aggregated according to physical network computing. utilizing state-of-the-art instruments and medium, manufacturer, demographics. 5G solutions from leading manufacturers. ACTA network KPIs are collected in 5G-HEART and is present in South East Europe. 5G-TOURS projects. Typical customers, of ACTA, are Telecom ACTA’s EMF Observatory Application collects Operators, Integrators, Manufacturers, measurements from several types of Utility companies, Universities, Research ElectroMagnetic Field monitoring stations. It Laboratories, Enterprises. Solutions provided also manages the EMF monitoring network cover a wide range of technologies with focus (alarms, configuration, integrity check). on optical, mobile, radio and access networks. Solution currently deployed at the EMF ACTA participates in two Horizon2020 EU Authority of Greece (https://paratiritirioemf. funded projects, 5G-TOURS and 5G-HEART eeae.gr), the Romanian (ANCOM) and in partnership with SMEs, Universities and Paraguayan (CONATEL). EMF Observatory is Telecom providers from France, Norway, further developed to support 5G frequencies. Italy, UK, Netherlands and Greece. ACTA has deployed the TR-069 “0-touch provisioning” xDSL management platform, in three Greek Telecom Operators. Platforms 7 are further developed. European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 1989 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 2 MORE INFORMATION www.aetheric.co.uk CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE EXPERTISE IN COMMUNICATIONS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
As an independent consultancy, We have performed feasibility We are interested in applying our expertise specialising in Satellite Communications, studies for satellite communication and experience in support of R&D&I in we support R&D, design, procurement systems, for example the provision of all aspects of satellite communications. and implementation of space segment telecommunication service throughout In particular, we would welcome and ground segment systems. We have Africa, and the augmentation of a opportunities to support researchers with an in-depth understanding of satellite terrestrial banking network. We have little expertise, themselves, in satellite communications networks and their supported the design and the procurement communications but with technology or IP relevance to commercial applications. Our of telecommunications satellites, that they wish to introduce into the satcom expertise includes design; procurement; including GNSS augmentation, broadband sphere. project management; and supervision connectivity, television distribution and of manufacture, test, installation and delivery, and data networks as supported commissioning. Our experience includes applications. We designed and built a working for clients on a world-wide basis. prototype transportable VSAT terminal. We also managed studies into the design standards for the user terminals of a broadband satellite communications network.
8 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2012 www.app-art.gr NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 22 [email protected]
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BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
AppArt is a software development AppArt participates in two 5G-PPP projects, AppArt has already experience in participating company, located in Athens, Greece, with 5G-SOLUTIONS (https://5gsolutionsproject. in H2020 actions, , and is currently seeking activities focusing mainly in the design and eu/) and 5GMediaHUB (https:// for new, potential collaborations with other development of Software Applications and www.5gmediahub.eu/), as the partner companies/enterprises and/or academic Solutions targeted for Telecom Operators, responsible, mainly, for the design and institutions within the frames of European Financial Organizations, Health and Energy development of the components comprising projects, in order to expand further its Industry. the KPI visualization system and for the activities in research and development within deployment, configuration and integration the 5G ecosystem. AppArt delivers both custom, as well as its of the components of the Experimentation own solutions. AppArt provides solutions in Tools, respectively. AppArt is interested in activities related to the areas of Big Data Analytics, implementing requirements analysis, design of software a plethora of Use Cases such as, Customer Also, AppArt has undertaken and implements solutions and solutions development , mainly Experience Presentation, Network on its own, the project 5G-DATA (http:// in the Data Analytics area for data coming Performance Management, Digital Network app-art.gr/5gdata/), supported by Iceland, from various sources and to be utilized in Analytics, Customer Value Management, Liechtenstein and Norway grants through the different Use Cases of various industries. Enterprise Reporting etc. and in the areas EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, in the However AppArt is ready to welcome any of Mobile Applications creation and Web frame of Programme «Business Innovation other idea, or proposal within, but not limited Development. AppArt provides its own Greece». only to, 5G area. platforms for Business Intelligence, Real Time Campaigns’ Management and Next Finally, AppArt is implementing the 5G-Traffic, Generation Messaging business functions. a project co-financed by the European AppArt team includes professionals with long Regional Development Fund of the European market experience and technical expertise, Union and Greek national funds through providing the company with the advantage of the Operational Program Competitiveness, being able to address business requirements Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the in the most innovative ways. call RESEARCH– CREATE – INNOVATE. 9 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2008 www.arctoslabs.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 7 [email protected]
EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI NETWORK AUTOMATION
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Arctos Labs is a company with strong Our placement technology has been We are searching for projects that R&D profile in 5G, edge and Cloud. We integrated into Open source MANO, demonstrate the power of edge compute have been involved in several EU funded the ETSI hosted MANO reference in new and emerging use cases as well as research projects as well as R&D for tier- implementation. platform technologies that are built on an 1 suppliers. We are currently providing a idea of high degree of automation. unique workload placement optimization technology for distributed edge/fog scenarios.
10 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2014 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 4 MORE INFORMATION www.arteevo.com CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART TRANSPORT & 5G IOT NGI ENERGY MANUFACTURING EXPERTISE IN CONTENT CITIES LOGISTICS +
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Arteevo Technologies specializes in Arteevo has participated in one FP7 and Arteevo is interested for future R&D&I developing secure decentralized solutions three high profile H2020 IA and RIA projects cooperation in the following research areas: for ICT, telecom and cyber-physical in the areas of energy, online privacy and IoT, Cloud and embedded M2M applications, applications. Key components in our automation of industrial and communication industrial automation, smart cities, smart solutions are distributed ledger technology business processes, two of these currently mobility, health, energy, digital industry, (DLT), cryptographically ensured end-to- in progress, one of them a major PPP. telecom network automation, SDN, virtual end security, confidentiality, decentralized The projects span the domains of energy, networks etc. identity management and artificial pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, social We seek to team up with large international intelligence. We have developed advanced services and manufacturing. domain leaders in the telecom industry architectures for the incorporation of – network operators, infrastructure dedicated, ultrafast blockchain technology providers, virtualization service providers, in SDN networks and 5G infrastructures, edge network operators and developers of including the Mobile Edge. advanced telecom applications. We will also Our other areas of expertise include industrial welcome opportunities of collaboration with data and IoT platforms, digital privacy and technology SMEs that have complementary automation of auditing of business process expertise. operations. We take a holistic approach to Our primary interest in such partnerships is design of distributed systems that covers in creating novel real-world solutions based both technical and business aspects, on synergies in the technology, market and including multi-party network governance, operational expertise of the partners. cross-provider accountability and end-to- end security.
11 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2020 www.australo.org NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
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AUSTRALO is your European partner to thrive With 10+ years of experience, our team Our values are rooted in collaboration principles. in the Lab-to-Market leap. Our mission is to participates actively in the European Framework AUSTRALO is permanently seeking new accelerate the potential of landmarks in Science Programme, with a track record of 10 active forms of partnership with organizations from & Technology to transform real-life challenges, H2020 projects in 2021. This includes COREnect, diverse types, mostly centred in empowering creating, communicating, and delivering value the project bringing together the most Research & Innovation initiatives. The ambition to key stakeholders. prominent 5G EU players from the industry and is to continue in Horizon Europe with the AUSTRALO offers: academia to establish a sustainable technology performance delivering impact in H2020 (about Community Building. We build bridges with sovereignty in 5G for Europe, promoting 25% success rate), participating as partners thriving networks in deep-tech, industry, innovation and business opportunities. along with the most prominent industry, entrepreneurship and vertical sectors, academia and non-profit institutions, both AUSTRALO is a member in some of the most harnessing the power of open innovation. from emerging technology and vertical sectors. relevant EU digital networks, including the 5G Marketing Communication. Our experience Complementing our participation in Infrastructure Association and NetWorld2020 delivering promotional strategies will give consortia, AUSTRALO offers our professional -where we lead the SME Working Group-, Big you an outstanding visibility and market services as external contractors for running Data Value Association (BDVA), Next Generation position, making your innovation attractive projects, implementing activities such as Internet (NGI), Association European to a critical mass - graphical and multimedia website development, graphical material, NanoElectronics ActivitieS (AENEAS), and material, website, social media, communication content and promotional campaigns. Barcelona Tech City. Plus, we are partners in campaigns among other marketing assets. Additionally, we are interested to reinforce COVID-X, the acceleration programme for data Go-to-Market. Our team empowers our synergies with other community builders solution defeating COVID-19. new business ideas to thrive, increasing through MoUs, amplifying the outreach capacity competitiveness, market assessment and for opportunities and news of shared interest. 12 capacity to access customers. European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 1996 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 100 MORE INFORMATION www.azcomtech.com CONTACT [email protected]
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Azcom Technology is a leader in advanced Azcom Technology has successfully Azcom Technology is interested in 5G wireless communication with two decades participated in funded 5GPPP projects such services and gNB and RU developments, of experience. It provides a complete suite as 5G NORMA and 5G CORAL. From all these from the low PHY to the higher levels of the of software IPR and hardware platforms collaborations Azcom developed a strategic protocol stack. Azcom is interested in big tier to build and deploy commercial and 5G knowledge. In the first participation client and also other small cell partner to help special purpose solutions for cellular Azcom small cell was controlled by the them in building a complete 5G solution. In communications, automotive, aerospace, innovative orchestrator proposed by the addition our interest is in radar automotive, home automation and mobile applications. 5G NORMA project. Then Azcom 5G focus biomedical, vehicular communications Azcom provides highly specialized expertise also involved the automotive field, through solutions, home automation, space and in areas such as signal processing, algorithm PoC realization both hardware and software satellite communications as well. design/simulation and DSP software of an On Board Unit, within the 5G CORAL development for multiple application project. The 5G CORAL demo allowed types, including cellular networks, space the connection of vehicles by means of a and radar communication. The company distributed network, leading to a quicker and has experience, competency, established distributed manner information exchange. processes and structure to execute complex Direct consequences were the optimization projects and product development on a of the network response, then improving turn-key basis. Azcom offers a wide range driver safety. of product engineering services across a wide range of development platforms and application domains. Azcom involvement in H2020 projects started in 2015.
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YEAR ESTABLISHED 1991 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 50 MORE INFORMATION www.beia.eu CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS MEDIA & TRANSPORT & 5G IOT NGI HEALTH ENERGY EXPERTISE IN COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CONTENT LOGISTICS +
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BEIA Consult International is a SME The company’s references include over BEIA is interested for future R&D&I performing research, design, production, 5,000 national and EU projects for IT and cooperation in the following research areas distribution, sales, installation and service. communications solutions, enterprise cloud (not exclusive): IoT, Cloud and embedded BEIA is one of the leading providers of communications and telemetry, energy, M2M applications, agriculture, environment, telecommunications equipment and smart cities, public safety, radio networks, smart cities, smart mobility, health and well- solutions in Romania and offers consultancy etc. being, energy, digital industry, digital life, etc. services for carrier grade infrastructure, CitiSim - Smart City 3D Simulation and To develop our projects or to cooperate communication solutions for PABX, voice Monitoring Platform within other projects, we need partners mail, IVR, call centre, VoIP services. COSIBAS - Cognitive services for IoT-based to build a comprehensive “ecosystem”, BEIA has R&D expertise in Cloud scenarios in the industrial domain interdependent on one another. and embedded M2M telemonitoring ESTABLISH - Environmental Sensing To Act 1. Horizontal partners: to provide the unified, applications, developing IoT based platforms for a Better quality of LIfe: Smart Health standards-based network infrastructure such as agriculture monitoring platform and contribute with technologies and for monitoring ecological parameters, and VITAL-5G - Vertical Innovations in Transport experiences to create a complete solution. systems for irrigation management. And Logistics over 5G experimentation facilities 2. Vertical Partners: to solve market-specific BEIA provides managed services & system business problems and address particular integration, IP-Wireless-SCADA, GPRS/CDMA SOLID-B5G - A Massive MIMO Enabled IoT use cases, to have the knowledge of communications with TCP/IP embedded, Platform with Networking Slicing for Beyond specific business operational. 5G IoV/V2X and Maritime Services GPS applications, μ-controller programming, 3. Geographic, from Europe and other software development. Power2SME - Aims to create a cloud system continents: to understand local BEIA is certified ISO 9001, 14001, 18001 that will change SMEs’ way of consuming environments, laws (such as data privacy and 27001 and is a member of various energy regulations), and to facilitate project professional organizations such as ARIES, SWAM - Smart WAter Management system deployments. PMI, IEEE, AHK, IPMA. for better environmental sustainability Other projects (finished and ongoing H2020, ECSEL, MSCA, Eureka/Eurostars, ITEA, Celtic, Erasmus, ERA-Net, AAL, BBI, COST, etc.) can be found on BEIA sites. 14 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2005 www.ctech.com.tr NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 172 [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
C Tech Information Technologies Industry C Tech, a subsidiary of TUSAŞ, is one of the few C Tech considers research and development and Trade Inc. founded in 2005, operates private sector company with infrastructure in as core business, actively taking part in in Defense, Aerospace and Satellite electronic design, software development and European and international funded research Technologies, Communication Systems, production under the Defence, Aerospace projects since its incorporation. Cyber Security, Modeling and Simulation. standards of our country, together with the subcontracting ecosystem. Our company C Tech is looking for international partners C Tech accomplishes its mission of developing is one of four company in the domestic focused on R&D&I cooperation in the innovative products and creating solutions communication development consortium areas of emerging 5G technologies, Smart for national and international markets with of TÜRKSAT-6A which is the biggest R&D Technologies, AI and ML, telecommunications, its knowledge and experience in information program and vision project of our country up satellite services, cyber security, V2X and IoT. and communication technologies and with its to today within the scope of the design and experienced human resources. production works of military and civil satellite C Tech has system engineering, electronic communication systems that it conducts. hardware design, digital design, C Tech has IS0-9001: 2008 and CMMI Level-3 communication system design, RF design, quality certifications, Production Permission embedded and PC based software design Certificate issued by the Ministry of National and system development capabilities and Defence, National and NATO Facilities Safety integration and production capabilities Certifications. It is based on internationally comprised by these capabilities. C Tech offers accepted standards and approaches such as products and solutions to various public, IEEE-12207 and MlL-STD-973. private and international stakeholders as the contractor of the projects. 15 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2015 www.cumucore.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
SDN, MEC, MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT EMBMS CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
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Cumucore is a spin off from Aalto University Active participation in EU-KR project Cumucore is interested to partner with which products include results of several related to usage of UAV for firefighting other SMEs to participate in pilots on NB- research projects in cooperation with including network slicing and MEC for IoT, eMBMS, Industrial Internet and private industry partners such as Nokia, Ericsson, URLLC required for emergency use cases. 5G networks. We are looking for partners Huawei and Coriant/Infinera. complementing Cumucore portfolio on Participation to 5G-SMART project for RAN including SDR and Cloud-RAN as well Ultra-reliable 5G packet core enhanced ultra-reliable 5G Core and network slicing as OSS and BSS. with SDN mobile backhaul orchestrator to for Industrial use cases. manage network slices and Multi Access Cumucore as part of Primo-5G project in Edge (MEC) edge computing. The 5GC cooperation with project partners have includes NB-IOT and eMBMS running in achieved an important milestone. The first dedicated servers or virtualized on the deployment world wide of intercontinental cloud. 5G mobile network where Cumucore Cumucore 5GC has been deployed in 5G Core is running in Korea at Yonsei several trials and pilots in Italy, South University and Cumucore User Plane Africa and middle east showing reliable GW (UPF) is running in Helsinki at Aalto and optimized packet core for private University (https://twitter.com/PriMO5G/ LTE, Industrial environments and small status/1202260945168486400). This open deployments. new business models for mobile operators, private and industrial internet 5G networks. 16 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2017 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 11 MORE INFORMATION www.cyberethicslab.com CONTACT [email protected]
PUBLIC PRIVACY & DATA EXPERTISE IN IOT 5G HEALTH ENERGY SAFETY SECURITY
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CyberEthics Lab. (CEL) is an Italian SME Within the contexts of 5G Solutions, CEL’s offering is mainly based on promoting with a holistic vision of innovation. CEL has developed the four-pronged innovation and new opportunities in CEL’s fundamental values are efficiency, conceptual model to be used as the base the market as well as creating ethical scientific curiosity, and respect for human for the process of assessment of the social awareness and promoting ethical beings and its mission is to promote acceptance of 5G technology. During the behaviour to build confidence and trust. In ethical awareness and behaviour in order pilots, CEL will test and validate its method particular CEL’s actions are also directed to to strengthen societal confidence in the on the field. This will offer CEL the chance to promote the inclusion of legal and ethical future. CEL leverages the experience and gather valuable proof-of-concept for future concerns in the design and implementation knowledge of its multidisciplinary team (i.e. deployment of its method in a burgeoning of new technologies, the identification of ICT, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Management, marketplace for ethics assessment. risks on individuals’ fundamental rights Economics), whose members teach at and the issuance of recommendations Based on best practices from PMBOK universities and who work on numerous aimed to make technologies compliant and OpenPM2, CEL has fine-tuned a EC Research projects (i.e. 5G-SOLUTIONS, with ethical principles and the relevant methodology for stakeholder engagement PHOENIX, PERSONA, ASSISTANCE, PERSIST, legal framework. CEL aims to reach either that has been experimented in PERSONA BRIGHT, POSEIDON). CEL has formulated European and international partners and through a customized web tool. Feedback its own methodology for ethical, societal one of its main strengths is its capacity to gathered from the project’s Community and legal assessment, a relevant aspect adapt and target its assistance depending of Stakeholders were instrumental in applied to determining the sustainability of on clients’ concrete needs and situations. developing the tailored impact assessment 5G technology. method for border control authorities.
17 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2018 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 6 MORE INFORMATION www.digitaltwin.technology CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT VR/AR CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
DigitalTwin Technology is software Tunnelware is a VaaS (Virtuality as a Engineers have been so preoccupied with solution provider for construction and Service) for tunnel construction industry designing and building the low-latency ICT industry. We create digital twins of to manage the construction process networks for these emerging applications construction site and urban cities for while managing the data generated by that they’ve neglected the rest of our vast, real-time monitoring and operations. We various sensors and human interaction. tangled telecom networks. The result is that generate simulation behaviour of those 3D With a focus on reducing cost and waste, there is now a growing gap between the model to predict any possible accidents to and increasing productivity, the system capabilities of the fixed and mobile sides of mitigate in advance. 5G technology, with its will improve the construction process at these networks. A big part of the problem promises of immersive virtual reality, will every stage, delivering “faster builds to a is that the way data moves through our be a data hungry generation of wireless higher quality with fewer defects and more networks has been designed for efficiency communications. Arrival of 5G will mean sustainable tunnels. on the mobile side. In the process our we can push these capabilities away from networks have become redundant and Cityware is a digital twin of your city to the PC and into something called the edge prone to clogging on the fixed side. monitor the infrastructure on real-time, cloud, so we only require the headset. This simulate the real situation in the virtual We are looking for partners in the area of is our cloud AR/VR technology. Cloud VR/ world. Completely under GDPR regulation networking who can help us taking this AR technology is set to be a disruptive form with no video streaming. research to the next step. Partners can be of immersive multimedia in a number of from EU region or globally. different ways.
18 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 1991 www.eantc.de NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 20 [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING ENERGY CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
IETF/NetSecOPEN: EANTC co-created an BACKGROUND, EXPERTISE ACHIEVEMENTS & independent, multi-vendor, multi-labs, and multi-tool test program for NGFW, IDS, IPS, and & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES UTM implementations. The methodology has been prepared as an IETF standard edited by EANTC. The test suite is used for evaluation and EANTC (European Advanced Networking Test EANTC is currently involved in Open RAN (O-RAN) certification of network security products, and to Center) is internationally recognized as one of testing projects including Open Fronthaul (FH) provide guidelines for infrastructure testing. the world’s leading independent test centers for interoperability, enhanced Common Public Radio telecommunication technologies offering vendor- Interface (eCPRI) and O-RAN components (O-RU, neutral consultancy and realistic, reproducible O-DU, O-CU). high-quality testing services. Customers include INTEREST FOR FUTURE leading network equipment manufacturers, EANTC’s Multi-Vendor MPLS SDN Interoperability tier-1 service providers, large enterprises and Test is a well-established event beneficial for small R&D&I COOPERATION and large vendors alike. EANTC as an independent governments worldwide. EANTC’s performance Following the evolution of the and scalability, interoperability, proof of concept, party exhibits a tangible, lab-validated network showcasing mature and latest advances in telecommunications and IT ecosystems, acceptance tests and network audits cover EANTC is interested in strengthening the know- established, and next-generation fixed and different technology areas. The test will focus on EVPN, SR, SDN, and Clocking. The outcome will be how and the position in several trending areas. mobile network technologies. EANTC is Co-Editor Starting from the evolution of testing within the of telecom testing standards in IETF, ETSI, O-RAN a White Paper containing detailed descriptions of all use cases, test setups and results. general scope of 6G, of particular interest is the Alliance. We develop new test methodologies for collaboration with O-RAN developing partners 5G networks and applications, especially focused EANTC is participating in 5G-VINNI and 5GASP and mobile operators for the testing and on end-to-end (E2E) interoperability, scalability, Horizon 2020 European research projects verification of the RAN Intelligent Controllers and performance tests. They cover network having a leading role in defining advanced test (RICs), xApps, rApps, and the use of Artificial infrastructure (SDN transport, slicing, telco cloud/ methodologies for complex 5G infrastructures Intelligence and Machine Learning. NFV, edge computing) and network applications comprising of NFV, SDN, Slicing, RAN, and for a range of industry sectors. Network Application. For the Innovation cluster EANTC has strong industry experience in 5G BERLIN, EANTC develops new test methods interop and performance testing of SDN, NFV, for 5G networks and applications focusing on 5G services and applications and is interested E2E interoperability, scalability, and performance in contributing testing, quality assurance, and tests. lab setup/management expertise to research projects. We would like to contribute our extensive commercial telecoms experience and strong focus on realistic scenarios. We find projects exciting that help Europe to capture 19 markets strongly (in TRL 7-8) or to create a technology leadership position (TRL 5-7). European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2003 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 40 MORE INFORMATION www.ebos.com.cy CONTACT [email protected]
AI/ML, GRAPH SMART MEDIA & TRANSPORT & EXPERTISE IN 5G NGI MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS CITIES CONTENT LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION eBOS is a well-established innovative eBOS has a wide experience in the 5G-PPP, eBOS has a long history of fostering software powerhouse SME providing participating in eight projects, 5G-SOLUTIONS collaborations in R&I projects with EU technological advanced e-business software (https://www.5gsolutionsproject.eu), partners and is inherently open to new solutions to enterprise customers around MonB5G (https://www.monb5g.eu), opportunities for collaborations with the world. Headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, 5G-ROUTES (https://www.5g-routes.eu), eBOS provides a broad range of avantgarde MARSAL (https://www.marsalproject.eu), interested partners. In particular, eBOS e-business solutions to forward-thinking VITAL-5G (https://www.vital5g.eu), 5G-ERA is interested in further developing and enterprises. eBOS has a long history of (https://www.5g-era.eu), 5G-MediaHUB exploiting its Research & Innovation activities engaging with international research and (https://www.5gmediahub.eu), through collaborations with industrial technology organisations, industrial leaders, 5G-EPICENTRE (https://www.5gepicentre. leaders, universities, research organisations universities, research organisations and eu). Through these projects, eBOS will and SMEs in 5G and beyond technologies, SMEs to drive collaborative technological develop multi-tenant front-end dashboards over a broad range of horizontal and vertical innovation and bring best-of-breed for KPIs visualisation, friendly to use intent- sectors, including Next Generation Media technologies to enterprise customers, based APIs, novel AI/ML techniques and and interactive technologies, Transport & which add real business value in the most blockchain-based cybersecurity solutions for challenging corporate environments. 5G networks and beyond, thus advancing our Logistics, Cybersecurity, Next Generation knowledge and reinforce our understanding Internet and IoT, Manufacturing, PPDR, Our expertise and core competencies in 5G and beyond enabling technologies. Smart Cities, Smart Mobility, etc. include software back-end and front-end, eBOS plans to apply the results in the intuitive dashboards, APIs, AI/ML, quality company’s product portfolio for developing assurance and risk management. Through new innovative applications and solutions. our collaborative participation in European Also, we aim to expand our customer base, Research and Innovation projects, we whilst identifying potential patents for enhance our know-how and incorporate IP protection in collaboration with other the latest cutting-edge technologies in our consortium partners. eBOS will contribute commercial solutions. The knowledge and to the shaping of 5G enabling technologies, innovation gained are then fused into our thus enabling Europe to maintain a leading solutions and services. We seek to explore and a decisive role in the field of 5G and radically new solutions and technological beyond. breakthroughs. 20 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 1996 www.ecomscotland.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 38 [email protected]
MEDIA & EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING HEALTH ENERGY CONTENT
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
eCom Scotland is a software company eCom has many examples of award winning eCom have a funded project with Dundee based in Scotland, where we research and activities, these include. eAA – Innovation University to create best practice for develop the next generation of innovative Award for eAssessment for use with IoT eXtended Reality (XR) training systems online learning solutions, we were first devices, The Herald Award with RNIB based on previous knowledge of designing incorporated in 1999 and have been – for providing a fully Accessibility LMS. surface based interactions. involved in many Internet research projects, More on our website www.ecomscotland. as well as active in working with standard com eCom is currently involved in eCom have an InnovateUK grant funded bodies such as IEEE and IMS Global. eCom IEEE P1484.20.2 standard development project, working with University of Glasgow provides both custom and saas solutions, all for Recommendations for Defining to develop a 5G project where VR is used to with a mobile first delivery mode. eCom’s Competencies, these activities are key to control Robots in the Lab, this will be built cloud applications include VR authoring, implementation in the use of AI/ ML roles in on our latest product www.eNetReality.com online assessment, micro-credentialing, society. eCom are interested to work with teams on and learning & competency management. any 5G projects involving remote training eCom’s solutions are currently used globally 5G is key to eCom success in the future as our current research in XR will result in the workplace, this could include XR where latency is a big issue. Our solutions integration with IoT, or Robotics. are built with the roll out of 5G in mind, in solutions where real-time immediate and are currently end-cached to support connection is required. In the UK 5G has bandwidth restrictions. Our clients are in Oil just been released and we are promoting & Gas, Engineering, Governments, Awarding adoption by our clients as our cloud bodies and Professional Institutes. solutions have a high level of media content and all work better with 5G.
21 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2010 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 15 MORE INFORMATION www.eglobalmark.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT COMMUNICATIONS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Easy Global Market (EGM), first, specialises On testing matters, EGM is working to We are looking for stakeholders in verticals in validation, testing &interoperability today provide a 5G NFV V&V platform. EGM has which need key 5G devices or services mainly in IoT and 5G areas. EGM stepped in developed key devices to the Bioceanor exploiting our advanced expertise in IoT the 5G area to provide NFV V&V methods start-up ( www.bioceanor.com) that is and virtualisation. We can work with a broad for 5G within the H2020 5GTango project supporting booming demand in Aquaculture range of verticals with can be smart cities, and IoT related 5G use cases (IoT slicing) digitalisation and where 5G is demanded. automotive, agriculture, aquaculture, water in H2020 5GinFIRE project. Second, EGM EGM deployed advanced autonomous networks, environment, public safety. provides scientific and engineering services sea buoys in Polynesia to help monitoring We can also develop for 5G-enabled for IoT market from sensors (HW) to data coral bleaching. EGM is now working more verticals, solution to check KPI and to validate analytics using experience from about actively in agriculture digitalisation, on solutions with our V&V platform. 24 international research projects. This soil monitoring and is about to deliver a applies to vertical fields, such as in Smart prototype in the beekeeping area to save cities, Smart water Monitoring, Aquaculture bees depopulation. After a first successful and Agriculture where EGM is currently product, EGM plans to deliver a low-cost active within 10 running H2020 projects. water quality sensor. EGM is also working on In these fields EGM is exploring the use of virtualized services for smart cities thanks to 5G available technologies (e.g. NB-IOT) for the EU-Japan project fed4IoT developing devices or virtualized services (e.g. VNFs)
22 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2016 www.8bellsresearch.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 25 [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Eight Bells (8BELLS) is an independent Translating innovative ideas to products Since its founding, EIGHT BELLS has invested Research and Consulting company and services is one of our core values and in Research & Development and achieved specializing in selected parts of Information our competitive advantage. We are an to climb at the forefront of specific sectors and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied R&D company, implementing ideas of ICT technology, implementing ideas and as well as in modelling and analysis for and exploring new frontiers. A recognition exploring new frontiers. Our analysts have businesses, based in Nicosia, Cyprus. The of our efforts is our identification as “Key a strong focus on R&D with a long track company was established in 2016 by ICT Innovator” in the framework of the EU record in EU funded research initiatives. researchers and market analysts pursuing Research Project “GUARD” (Horizon 2020) They have actively participated in (and the application of their research expertise by EU Innovation Radar. coordinated) several R&D projects in the and innovations in the ICT related arena. field of networking and telecommunications Our main achievements are: and have authored or co-authored over 80 The main areas of research and technical a) Leading SME in 5G domain. papers in international refereed journals expertise are customizable solutions that b) Participating in 2 CEF (Connecting Europe) and conferences. Moreover, the company’s enhance modern communications relevant Flagship Projects – autonomous vehicles & 5G. portfolio includes system engineering and to the area of 5G Mobile Technology, c) Our privately own 5G Mobile integration services, network design and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Station for Research use. implementation, R&D consultancy, as well and management solutions for Cloud d) Participating in 7 5G (H2020 5GPPP) as targeted and customized innovative infrastructures. Research Projects (6 of them being active): solutions. Our future R&D&I Cooperation • SMART5GRID • 5GMED interest include: SOFTWARIZED NETWORKS, CYBERSECURITY, IoT AND SENSORS, • 5G-INDUCE • 5G-CARMEN OPTICAL NETWORKS, AI & SOFTWARE • EVOLVED-5G • 5G ESSENCE SOLUTIONS, SPACE - DEFENCE - SECURITY • AFFORDABLE5G APPLICATIONS. e) Participating in 1 6G Research Project: H2020 5GPPP AI@EDGE 23 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2014 www.epitomical.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 20 [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Epitomical is UK based design & engineering The company has been successful in the The company is interested in collaborating company targeting the Transport & Smart design and launch of numerous products with technology providers, local & regional Infrastructure Sectors. The company has as well as in collaborating with numerous authorities as well as other players within a headcount of 20 full-time and part-time companies including Google, Sony and the Transport & Logistics ecosystem. This employees based across Western Europe, Jacobs. would include end users of services such India and Japan. as those in Healthcare, Construction and Epitomical recently led and delivered Regional & City operations. The company has experience in Electrical Project Alloyed (an Innovate UK funded & Electronic Systems, Embedded & Cloud project) together with sixteen consortium Epitomical is currently delivering trials and software, Industrial Design and the planning partners. The project delivered a number of development projects in Europe, Japan & and creation of Services. Our focus is on positive outcomes in the area of Connected India and would be interested in exploring building Connected & Autonomous Systems & Autonomous Vehicles including a flexible other international markets for Connected for Air, Marine and Surface Transport architecture for connecting Vehicles, & Autonomous Systems. These would Vehicles and associated Infrastructure. Over Infrastructure & Cloud services. Project include markets for autonomous systems the past six years, Epitomical has designed details can be found at https://alloyed. leveraging drones, mass-market transport and manufactured more than twenty epitomical.com/. vehicles, pods as well as submersible and different products for our own brand in semi-submersible marine vehicles. Other addition to product development work for In 2019, the company was awarded Horizon areas of interest include organisations with other parties. 2020 funding for the 5G-HEART project an interest in Satellite Communications, led by the Finnish technical research Cellular telecommunications, HD Mapping organisation, VTT. 5G-HEART will trial & Cloud based services. 5G use-cases across multiple vertical markets including Transport, Healthcare & Aquaculture. Project details can be found at https://5gheart.org/. 24 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2019 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 9 MORE INFORMATION www.fivecomm.eu CONTACT [email protected]
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BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
FIVECOMM is a technology-based company Fivecomm is a beneficiary in six H2020 Fivecomm is interested in creating future spin off from the iTEAM Research Institute projects related to 5G communications. collaborations in the field of industry of Universitat Politècnica de València These projects are FUDGE-5G (private verticals including robotics, automotive, (UPV), founded in 2019 and focused on networks), 5G-RECORDS (media), iNGENIOUS industry 4.0, smart cities, utilities, health the use and implementation of 5G mobile (IoT), ITN-5VC (vehicular communications), care, and media among others, either from technology for industrial applications. Its 5G-INDUCE (5G NetApps) and 5G-IANA European or international companies. Of aim is the innovation, design, development, (automotive industry). course, Fivecomm welcomes proposals production, integration, operation, and ideas for new areas of collaboration in Besides, Fivecomm participates in the maintenance, repair and commercialization research and development. Spanish Digitalization Programme through of systems, solutions and products that projects that address different 5G use cases make use of 5G, either with public or private related to smart metering, remote skin networks. Fivecomm works currently in the cancer diagnosis, and connected AGVs both following product lines: a) autonomous and for critical inspection and for logistics inside remote driving of mobile robots; b) artificial industries. intelligence; c) a software platform for end- to-end communication optimization; d) 5G At regional level, Fivecomm is part of modem customized for different verticals. AUDERE project focused on last mile delivery and urban waste recovery.
Fivecomm works with the MiV (Mobility Innovation Valencia) to develop robotic 5G solutions for the Automotive industry.
Recently, Fivecomm has received the Best Industry 4.0 startup award at the 5th VLC Startup awards.
25 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2016 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 10 MORE INFORMATION www.fogus.gr CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT VR/AR CONTENT CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Fogus is a thriving SME in Greece that aims Fogus has active role in leading consortia Fogus research and development team at integrating state-of-the-art technological and forums for 5G networks. Currently, has vast experience in participation to advancements and cutting-edge research the company participates in the 5GENESIS many European R&D projects in the past, achievements, towards an immersive (https://5genesis.eu/) project. 5GENESIS is a including FP7 and H2020 actions, ICT, MSCA communication and computing experience. large-scale 5G experimentation project that ITN, IAPP and RISE actions. The company Founded by a group of industrial and aims at validating 5G KPIs for various 5G use is mainly interested in 5G and beyond academic experts covering a wide range cases, in both controlled set-ups and large- research projects. Strategically, the company of disciplines in the area of Information scale events. This will be achieved by bringing is looking for academic and industrial and Communication Technologies (ICT), together results from a considerable number partners for potential collaborations in the Fogus exhibits strong research record of EU projects as well as the partners’ following directions: i) exploitation of the and vast experience in managing and internal R&D activities in order to realise an last advancements in ICT sector to provide implementing ICT Research & Innovation integrated End-to-end 5G Facility. Moreover, complete end-to-end solutions to vertical actions. Holding experience that ranges the company develops integrated services industries, ii) scientific research on innovative from the design of mobile communication for user-centric digital content delivery in 5G ideas for wireless mobile networking and protocols to the development of custom- mobile data networks that will be founded service provisioning, and ii) participation in made software, Fogus undertakes: i) end- on the pillars of a) blockchain based wireless training and knowledge sharing activities, as to-end set-up of network simulation and network resource sharing, b) QoE-enhanced explained in the MSCA work programme. emulation environments for IoT and user- video content delivery, c) software-defined centric services, ii) development of network networking and d) cache-enabled mobile functions end protocols for access and data networks. transport network domains, ii) analysis of big data with expertise on mapping network and service performance parameters to user- experience metrics, iv) MEC-empowered service provisioning and integration for 5G.
26 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED / NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 1-9 MORE INFORMATION www.gigasys.co.uk CONTACT [email protected]
SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING AGRICULTURE CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Gigasys Solutions Ltd is a start up on wireless Gigasys Solutions participation in national Gigasys Solutions is seeking to collaborate technology consultation and collaborative and European R&D projects, on 5G and on 5G and beyond 5G research and project management, located in Guildford, beyond 5G technologies contributed on innovation projects. We contribute to the Surrey, UK, with expertise on 5G and beyond the project planning, development and technology development, proof-of-concept 5G testbed implementation and innovative validation of specific technology components and validation with experience on R&D concepts and related R&D technical related to 5G PHY/MAC and IoT networks, project planning and management. managements. up to the network applications for related use cases addressing vertical areas such as agriculture and smart city applications.
27 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2018 www.hinn.es NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 2 [email protected]
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for environment, sustainability, climate BACKGROUND, change, tracing and efficient agri-food INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS industries. R&D&I COOPERATION ACHIEVEMENTS & • Media. New mechanisms to broadcast Widely involved in activities in Europe, content and provide personal TV. SUCCESS STORIES Latin America and Africa. Assistance is Assistant to ITU-D on supporting new regularly provided to Governments of advanced entertainment systems. Main areas of work have been the Mexico, Colombia, Paraguay, Eq Guinea as Also, research analysis on new assessment of suitable spectrum for 5G well as ongoing activities in Africa. HINN preferences of content viewers and and integration of satellite and terrestrial interest in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, comparison of efficiencies of different networks. HINN has conducted studies on Lebanon, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, delivery platforms (satellite, cable, the use of current available spectrum and Perú, Venezuela, Colombia, Panamá, Costa terrestrial over the air, OTT) future opportunities for 5G in share bands. Rica, Honduras, Mexico. • Automotive. Designers and supporters Development of management tools Main technology areas are related to of new solutions for Car2Car combining sensors and data processing of spectrum management and efficiency on communications agri-food industries the use of the spectrum through intelligent • Public Safety. Involvement on the terminals capable to share the spectrum as standardization processes for ICT well as development of 5G products for the solutions applicable to PPDR. agri-food industries • Agri-food. From farm to the table. Development of innovative solutions for the olive and vinegars´ plants while observing Compliance requirements 28 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2014 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 15 MORE INFORMATION www.incelligent.net CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & FINTECH, PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS SECTOR
based on Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial bands. Based on raw information and on the BACKGROUND, Intelligence (AI); (b) means for efficient Incelligent analytics, the generation of more Big Data management and for flexible accurate insights is acheived, therefore, EXPERTISE & SKILLS functionality deployment. powering advanced network planning, as well as further location-aware applications. Incelligent technologies have a footprint Incelligent delivers Predictive and in Greece, in Europe and in Middle East. Prescriptive Analytics solutions, tailored Announcements on successes in further INTEREST FOR FUTURE for the sectors: (a) telecommunications; (b) areas are underway. fintech/banking; (c) public sector, focusing on social security, taxation and customs. In the R&D&I COOPERATION area of telecommunications, the Incelligent ACHIEVEMENTS & product (working name: RAN.ai) targets: (a) Incelligent will continue to pursue research Proactive capacity planning and network SUCCESS STORIES and development engagement towards resource management, at the access and B5G/6G, to maintain competitive advantages, backhaul segments; (b) Proactive customer and also for contributing to the maintenance experience (CX) management; (c) Customer Incelligent is proud to work in the context of a prominent European role in the field. management applications with emphasis on of 5G PPP, to contribute in the shaping of risk minimization; (d) Telco data monetization technologies for 5G and for the generations Incelligent aims at developing algorithms for through the generation of actionable to follow, Beyond 5G (B5G). proactive resource and customer experience insights, based on traffic concentration optimization in B5G / 6G contexts. Moreover, and mobility predictions; these empower Through its participation to the 5G PPP there is the ambition to continue enhancing service providers to optimize their offerings; projects, MATILDA and 5G-PHOS, Incelligent the development of advanced services benefitting sectors ranging from transport was enabled to mature its technology that monetize telecommunications data. In infrastructures, to retail / stadiums / malls, (in terms of functionality, positioning in addition, there is interest in creating future and to citizen security / health (including standards, etc.), to conduct showcases, and collaborations in the areas of fintech, public the assessment of pandemic situations as to enhance its expertise with respect to sector applications, as well as smart venues. COVID-19). the 5G ecosystem technologies. Advanced services were built by Incelligent, for areas Incelligent is an experienced partner, with The target of the vertical (banking, public) like malls, venues, stadiums, of interest to an extrovert and cooperative mentality, in sector products is overall risk minimization, vertical players and network operators. search for cooperation on research and customer satisfaction, and optimization products development, with an eye for of the efficiency of the operations (of the Through project LOCUS, Incelligent is applications with a worldwide potential. banking or public sector entity). building analytics that leverage on advanced localization information, which can have The Incelligent products rely on: (a) standard various degrees of detail. Information and in-house built / patented methodologies, can come from 3GPP and WiFi standards, operating at sub-6 GHz or at the mmWave 29 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2017 www.infolysis.gr NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 14 [email protected]
CHATBOT TRANSPORT & PUBLIC SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT HEALTH APPS LOGISTICS SAFETY CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
INFOLYSIS P.C. is an innovative SME In 2017, INFOLYSiS achieved to commercialise INFOLYSiS plans to further enhance chatbot company, established in Athens, Greece, the first chatbot business solution over characteristics and functionalities with DL/ specialising on the design and development Viber in Greece, enabling food ordering via NLP technologies for providing AI-driven of chatbots, either as custom-made chatting. This pioneering solution created chatbots to the Greek market and therefore standalone applications or as subscribed- strong business cooperation with Viber, there is a strong interest for building a based services (Chatbot as a Service) via granting to INFOLYSiS the title of Viber cooperation with AI specialised companies. the privately owned chatbot platform. Preferred Enabling Partner. Moreover, INFOLYSiS is looking for Chatbots are applications that simulate Since then, INFOLYSiS demonstrated its expanding chatbot applicability to new use- human conversation, based primarily on solutions to many events organised by Viber. cases, such as improving citizen engagement conversational flows, enriched with DL/ Two events are standing out, the “Viber for in smart cities and to smart agriculture use- NLP technologies for more sophisticated Business Innovation Day” at SNFCC and the cases for simplifying continuous monitoring solutions. “Viber Chatbot event” at INNOVATHENS, process. INFOLYSiS is committed to driving research where both the CEO of Viber Mr. Djamel Finally, INFOLYSiS also aims to expand its results forward in order to expand chatbot Agaoua and the VP of Global Partnerships target market for the privately owned chatbot applicability in novel ICT use-cases by Mrs. Cristina Constandache were present, platform beyond the boundaries of Greece, experimenting with novel technologies, together with key-players from the Greek targeting at popular Viber international such as 5G, SDN/NFV at the network edge market. chatbot markets in Europe, Russia and Asia, and container-based virtualization in IoT Concerning R&D, INFOLYSiS successfully but also extending chatbot development domains. An indicative example includes participates in two 5G-PPP/H2020 projects, over additional messaging platforms that the INFOLYSiS IoT Virtual GW, which offers 5GENESIS (www.5genesis.eu) and 5G!Drones are popular in specific countries, targeting at the provision of agile interoperability over (www.5gdrones.eu), which validate 5G niche markets. heterogeneous IoT domains, along with a applicability in real life use-cases. user friendly chatbot interface. 30 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2014 www.iinstitute.eu NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 4 + 8 associates [email protected]
SMART PUBLIC CRITICAL EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI CYBERSECURITY TELECOMS CITIES SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
INTERNET INSTITUTE Ltd. (ININ) is an We are proud of our continuous cooperation Our interests for the upcoming R&D&I innovation intensive SME, specialized with a number of notable telco players, utility cooperation are geared towards further in 5G performance and quality metrics owners and public safety organisations, advancements in 5G performance and development and validation, 5G testing, who help us in creating a realistic hands- quality monitoring and verification systems benchmarking and end-to-end validation, on ecosystem for both innovative R&D and intelligent network orchestration. In and quality monitoring and SLA assurance pilots and actual deployments in practice. particular: quality assurance of mobile, fixed for orchestrated 5G infrastructures and We are currently part of the 5G PPP Phase and cloud systems, including 5G related services. Also, we are experienced in design, 2 program as part of the MATILDA project quality metrics development and validation, deployment and operation of reliable and (www.matilda-5g.eu) where our primary 5G testing, benchmarking and end-to-end resilient 5G infrastructures for public safety focus is on quality and performance KPIs validation; cybersecurity monitoring, and critical communications sectors. monitoring capabilities for 5G-orchestrated quality monitoring and SLA assurance We address telco, corporate and domains, as well as real-world 5G vertical for 5G infrastructures and services; R&I vertical industrial sectors with our use cases for emergency response domain. and piloting of resilient real-time 5G quality MONitoring (gMON) portfolio for In addition, we’ve recently launched PPDR critical infrastructures, and specialised 5G performance monitoring and SLA assurance, One, a one-of-a-kind 5G and NFV ready deployments for public safety, automotive, benchmarking and end-to-end validation experimentation facility that facilitates intelligent transport, and utility verticals. of communication infrastructures and hands-on experimenting with stationary services. In addition, we specialise in on-site and portable 5G deployments for public critical communications, smart sensing and safety and critical communications sectors intervention monitoring services with our (https://5ginfire.eu/ppdr-one-facility/). intervention MONitoring (iMON) and remote MONitoring (rMON) portfolios, customised for public safety and critical infrastructures. 31 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 1997 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 25 MORE INFORMATION www.iquadrat.com/rd CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI ENERGY CONTENT CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
IQUADRAT has a focused business plan Iquadrat is participating in a number Iquadrat is interested in international specifically intended on delivering a “new of 5G-network related projects, such as cooperation in H2020 projects in ICT- generation of research tools for system the 5GPPP projects 5G-PHOS, MonB5G related research and innovation, such as level evaluation of wireless integrated and 5GROUTES, the H2020 projects networking research for 5G and beyond, communication systems”. The company is IoT SEMIOTICS, MARSAL, 5G-ERA, 5G smart anything everywhere initiatives, involved in projects with large corporate EPICENTRE, 5G MEDIAHUB, and MSCA- tools for smart content in creative clients, mobile operators and public ITNs 5G STEPFWD, SEMANTIC, MOTOR5G, industries, etc. authorities. Our R&D department is and SPOTLIGHT. Iquadrat has gained involved in many National and EU-funded extensive know-how in radio access research projects, and has extensive technologies, network platforms, SDN, IoT know-how in 5G Networks, IoT, simulation and energy management methodologies methodologies for Radio Access Networks for smart-grids. Key outcomes are i) our IoT (RAN), Software Defined Networking platform for Smart Building automation (SDN) and Demand Response algorithms that supports sensing of comfort related for Smart Grids. Our key products parameters (CO2, humidity, lux, etc.) via include: i) an innovative end-to-end 5G our own custom battery operated IoT platform that employs Network Function nodes and transmit data over BLE or Virtualization in conjunction with Machine 802.15.4, and multi- IoT gateway setups Learning algorithms that offer automated with cloud-based control via a centralized (zero-touch) network management and controller; ii) our 5G SDN/NFV platform that orchestration at the cloud/edge/RAN, ii) a decouples the RAN Control & Data Plane, suite of System Level Simulators (SLS) that and consolidates the control plane into 802.11, 802.15.4, and 4G LTE networks, iii) a single centralized controller, enabling an SLS for Smart Grids that implements easier coordination among base stations Demand Response algorithms, and and offering real-time control. iv) an IoT platform for Smart Building automation. 32 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2006 www.is-wireless.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 35 [email protected]
PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI ENERGY SMART CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
IS-Wireless develops algorithms, protocols, IS-Wireless has designed and develops We are looking for partners willing to and tools for 4G and 5G mobile networks. innovative solutions for RAN virtualization collaborate in: (i) development of 5G We provide licensable software in the two like: the software-defined RAN (SD-RAN) – small cell protocols and radio resource following areas: i) Software-Defined RAN funded by the Public Authority in Poland; management solutions for 4G/5G and (SD-RAN) – a NFV-compatible, standard- we have also developed the 5G Toolset cloud-RAN (ii) delivering cyber security compliant RAN protocols ready for 4G/5G, – experimentation software for 4G/5G solutions for 4G/5G small cells. We look it allows mobile networks to support more link and system level testing, and the forward to cooperate with different users with better performance at lower unique solution called VNF Composition verticals (IoT/automotive, public safety, cost ii) the 5GToolset - experimentation Framework (VCF) to support virtual RAN media) as we have our proprietary solutions for mobile networks supporting operation. Our radio resource management solutions for virtualized RAN that can be research and education on 4G and 5G (RRM) solutions include among all 4G tailored and further adjusted per use-case (5G NR). Our ambition is to bring 4G and scheduler that has been integrated with (e.g. to complement existing products or 5G innovation for every university and the Eurecom OpenAirInterface to support solutions). research lab worldwide at affordable carrier aggregation under the umbrella prices. of FP7 Solder. It has been upgraded to also support 5G and multi-RAT scheduling (based on LWA, LWIP coextistence protocols). IS-Wireless is proud member of the two industry fora: O-RAN Alliance (O-RAN) and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). 33 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 1996 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 80 MORE INFORMATION www.itti.com.pl CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
The main competences of ITTI related ITTI has contributed to over 60 international Having a competent and experienced to 5G are in PHY layer (channel R&D projects in the EC Framework team of telecommunication engineers coding, modulation, signal processing, Programmes (FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020), EDA and software developers, ITTI is interested synchronisation) and MAC layer (admission programmes and ESA programmes. in collaboration with partners on control, congestion control optimization), development of innovative solutions for In recent H2020 CAVICO (Context-Aware cognitive resource control and service vertical sectors in the 5G ecosystem. In Video Controller for autonomous transport adaptation (cross-layer, context driven, particular, we are interested in integrating and security monitoring) project ITTI ML-based, QoE/QoS), network and novel technologies to our eHealth Medstar. successfully tested in the 5GinFire testbed cybersecurity (including ML techniques), co solution to enhance its functionality the developed system that is able to test campaigns (e.g. video systems, mobile leveraging 5G capabilities. We are also control the video streaming on the basis data services) and validation by means of seeking partners for collaboration on of measured QoS and QoE parameters. In system/link level simulators. cybersecurity solutions for 5G networks. another H2020 project – QoEST4CM (QoE ITTI is also willing to involve in 6G research Our expertise covers eHealth, energy, SupporT for improved Crisis Management) and technology development. and public safety vertical sectors. We we provided video streaming system, developed Medstar.co solution that offers integrated with UAV in the RAWFIE telecare support for remote patients. In testbed, enabling for adaptive change of the energy sector, we worked on optimal video parameters depending on network control for smart cities (e.g. light control, conditions, and user requirements. energy management). We also have extensive expertise in economic evaluation of PPDR networks and social media usage in crisis management within the public safety sector.
34 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION JCPConnect 2002 www.jcp-connect.com EDGE CLOUD COMPUTING NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 12 [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT & EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
JCP-Connect is a French SME with expertise Our involvement in numerous H2020 We are interested to collaborate with in caching and edge computing for verticals projects (including Beyond 5G and FTI calls) telecoms, satellite operators, content and as events, transport and smart cities. We has helped us develop our edge computing media providers, companies developing provide portfolio of HW and SW edge and content delivery portfolio. Our gateway AI, etc. We are naturally open to European computing solutions as well as caching MoBCache, mounted on vehicles such partners, but we would be happy to as NFV for content delivery in virtualised as bus, trains, or drones, can collect and collaborate with partners from Africa, Latin environments. process sensor data from the surrounding America and Oceania as well. environment in a secure manner. Our We are interest in R&D collaborations in content delivery is currently implementing the following domains: Edge computing, enhanced security features. MEC, caching, content security, intrusion detection, mobile IoT.
35 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2015 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 9 MORE INFORMATION WWW.KAAM.ES / WWW.AGROKAAM.ES CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MEDIA & CONTENT MANUFACTURING HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS +
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
High level ICT solutions, open source E-health project, COPD prototype: Design, • Seamless connectivity of 5G/6G networks software development, agri-food experts, development and evaluation with patients with other local, regional or worldwide spectrum management, standardisation, of a vibratory vest for electrostimulation for networks. spectrum sharing, licensing, international Respiratory Rehabilitation - Application in • Digital cooperation. Widely involved in activities in Europe, Latin America and partnerships and digital cooperation. patients with chronic respiratory diseases. Africa. Assistance is regularly provided Certiapp: It is a unique solution in the to Governments of Mexico, Colombia, market adaptable for any existing Paraguay, Eq Guinea as well as ongoing certification body, whatever its scope and activities in Africa, like PRIDA project for introduction of wireless broadband documentation, thanks to its complete services. KAAM interest in Morocco, assistants and its document manager. Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, HortoSaaS: cloud software developed with Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, Colombia, Panamá, Costa open source tools to track food traceability, Rica, Honduras, Mexico. from the field until the end customer • Spectrum sharing management and consumes it. We can know at all times the efficiency on the use of the spectrum processes through which the food passes through intelligent terminals capable in detail. to share the spectrum as well as development of 5G products for vertical industries (media, automotive, agriculture, energy, etc.) • Open source software developers with new technologies, working with php and symphony in the back and with vuejs in the front, being our areas of implementation agriculture, renewable energies and e-health. 36 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2016 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 50 MORE INFORMATION www.lionix-international.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & 5G SPACE HEALTH EXPERTISE IN COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS
With experience in beamforming applications in be incorporated into Viasat’s ultra-flat panel (6cm BACKGROUND, EXPERTISE integrated microwave photonics for the aerospace height) antenna. The modules make beamforming and avionics industry, we focus on 5G/6G wireless with a wide field of view possible for pencil beams, & SKILLS solutions for high-speed public transport, military using true time delays and low power tuning. or civil operations. Furthermore, we apply Expertise in 5G In BlueSPACE (part of 5G PPP), LioniX International complementary expertise in micro-fluidics, opto- enabled multibeaming for high-coverage fronthaul LioniX International develops integrated fluidics and MEMS to create PIC-based solutions for infrastructure using space division multiplexing. microwave photonics (iMWP) solutions, in applications in Telecom/Datacom, Life Science and The beamforming modules demonstrated powerful particular optical beamforming networks (OBFN) Metrology. hybrid integration of silicon nitride and indium fabricated on integrated photonic modules. These Expertise in R&D and Innovation phosphide photonics for Analog Radio Over Fibre modules enable ultra-high capacity broadband and Digital Radio of Fibre applications. communications from flat-panel antennas for Our proprietary TriPleX™ platform is perfect for mmWave satellite, aeronautical and 5G terrestrial hyperspectral (400-2300 nm) Photonic Integrated applications. The hybrid integration of our high- Circuits. We lead R&D in integrated photonics INTEREST FOR FUTURE contrast, low-loss silicon nitride photonics platform functionality, using piezo-based low-power TriPleX™ with Indium Phosphide (InP) technology actuation in the H2020 EU projects HAMLET and R&D&I COOPERATION provides small, robust, integrated modules with 3PEAT. Other joint research is driving further improvements in mmWave performance. Our PIC- novel RF functions. Examples of functions include LioniX International has a strong R&D focus based modules are developed for different types of tunable lasers, switches, filters, true-time-delay where around 50 % of the employees have a products in life science applications, like confocal lines, WDM and more. We are a partner in H2020 PhD degree. The focus on integrated photonics, microscopy, flow cytometry, Optical Coherence 5G-projects blueSPACE and 5GPHOS where our utilizing the benefits of the low-loss high contrast Tomography (OCT), endoscopy, spectroscopy, optical beam forming networks are enabling TriPleX™ microprocessors provides numerous optical biosensors, food sorting and molecular developments in the next generation of high- solutions for applications in telecommunication/ bandwidth, high-transmission-density flexible diagnostics. data communication , sat com, sensing health tech communication networks. and health care. The hybrid integration of InP and Expertise in vertical sectors ACHIEVEMENTS & TriPleX PICs enables small and compact integrated modules with improved stability and performance. We build customized solutions using Photonic Main topics of interest are: [1] implementation of Integrated Circuits (PICs) based on our proprietary SUCCESS STORIES microwave photonics (MWP) processing and analog waveguide technology (TriPleX™). We work with photonic links (APL) and its application in mmWave OEMs and System Integrators to support every LioniX International will deliver optical beamforming modules for high capacity broadband phased array beamforming for terrestrial and satcom networks, stage of the development lifecycle, by vertical [2] hybrid tunable lasers for telecom and sensor integration, in scalable production volumes. And antennae for aeronautical communications. The work is part of the seven figure AIDAN PPP project applications [3] low-power actuation of complex with a strong IP position to secure our technology processors through stress-optic tuning. leadership, we not only develop products but drive with the European Space Agency and antenna innovation. manufacturer Viasat. After a successful antenna test flight in May 2021, the beamforming modules will 37 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2006 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 250 MORE INFORMATION www.liveu.tv CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MEDIA & CONTENT COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
LiveU is driving the live video revolution, LiveU offers creative HEVC live LiveU is looking for EU Horizon 2020 and providing live video streaming for TV, video streaming solutions for global international collaboration projects in: mobile, online and social media. Since the newsgathering and every type of sporting autonomous vehicles and connected cars, company invented cellular bonding, LiveU’s event, including the FIFA World Cup™, media and broadcasting, 5G, trials, public portable live video transmission solutions Winter and Summer Olympic Games, safety, telemedicine, video compression have replaced traditional SNG trucks, Super Bowl, US Collegiate Championships, and video delivery over low cost public offering far greater mobility and cost- IRONMAN and Absa Cape Epic mountain internet and any other area that requires effectiveness for global newsgathering, bike race (South Africa). reliable high-quality real-time video from sports and events coverage. From the field for monitoring and/or control. LiveU has been involved in a series of 5G backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/ LiveU contributes real-time video and data tests worldwide, for example, teaming up cellular hybrid to external antenna delivery over multiple cellular networks, with AT&T to trial 5G with its portable HEVC solutions, LiveU offers a complete range high quality video over the public internet, units for live news and sports broadcasts, of devices for high-quality live video remote teleoperation of SAE L3, L4, L5 and taking part in Vodafone’s 5G coverage, together with cloud-based vehicles and more. Experience Day, delivering 4K feeds from management and video distribution. All the 4K camera and over the 5G network to LiveU products are 5G ready, designed test 5G potential. to transmit effectively from the field over 5G networks. With 3,000+ customers in LiveU is an active partner in successful 130+ countries, LiveU’s technology is used EU collaboration projects, including: by global broadcasters, online media, the 5GPPP research project, 5G-Xcast; sports organizations, public safety and 5G-Solutions (2019); 5G-Tour (2019); autonomous vehicle manufacturers with PrEstoCloud and others. teleoperation/remote-assisted driving.
38 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2005 www.magister.fi SOLUTIONS NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 28 [email protected]
SATELLITE TRANSPORT & SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Magister Solutions is specialist in Magister Solutions has developed several We are working as a R&D&I partner communication network simulation and simulators modelling terrestrial and with companies that are developing emulation tools and services for modelling satellite networks in details. One of the wireless systems, providing telecom real world telecom (satellite and terrestrial) latest developments is a novel simulation services or looking for expertise in in detail. Services for telecommunication framework called Self-Organizing Simulator telecommunications. These companies include network simulation environments, 3 (SonS3) that makes use of real network include Satcom vendors and operators, concept, algorithm and software data to enable an accurate performance Telecom vendors and operators and development, machine learning expertise, analysis of mobility related SON use cases. companies in defence and aerospace testing and PoC development. In addition to simulator development, we sector. also developed an MRO algorithm which adapts dynamically the Cell Individual Offset (CIO), and a performance analysis within a realistic urban scenario. The proposed MRO algorithm leads to an overall reduction of more than 30% in mobility problems without causing a significant increase in the number of HOs.
39 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 1996 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 23 MORE INFORMATION www.martel-innovate.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT & LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Martel is a dynamic Swiss-based company The proliferation of IoT, the deployment Martel is interested in further developing with more than 20 years’ experience of 5G and the rise of 6G are unleashing Orchestra Cities and trialling it in a variety managing digital research and innovation the potential to transform public services, of scenarios, extending its current smart projects across Europe and worldwide. transportation, sustainability and cities focus to automotive, smart energy, After more than 100 projects, Martel has infrastructures across smart city scenarios. sustainability and multi-media content grown from its origins as a small consulting Orchestra Cities (orchestracities.com) is a scenarios. We are also looking to explore agency into a thriving organisation with data IoT-driven solution allowing cities to the combination of Orchestra Cities with employees located in offices in Zurich, collaboratively develop and share smart 5G/6G technologies. In turn, this will Lugano and Lausanne. In the past five services using Open Source software, allow adoption of 5G infrastructures and years, Martel’s business has diversified APIs and Data Models. Orchestra Cities solutions in combination with advanced to include research and development was developed with the European cities of IoT, Edge, and Cloud: a particularly key activities in the area of next generation Antwerp and Helsinki, it has been trialled topic for Martel is Edge Intelligence and internet technologies, such as 5G, IoT and by Wolfsburg city and EKZ (Zurich Canton AI within cloud-native architectures, Cloud. Our R&D department is specialised water and electricity utility) and it’s now as well as MLops/AIops. Our interest in virtualisation and orchestration of piloted within the ARCADIAN IoT and is in the convergence between IoT/ virtual resources, including IoT functions Affordable 5G projects. It is modular and Edge management solutions and 5G, and Virtual Network Functions. Martel is scalable, satisfying the needs of cities of leveraging micro-services architectures. an active member of key organisations different sizes. Orchestra Cities supports We are also interested in Electric Vehicle including 5GIA, Networld2020, FIWARE different data formats and enables the Charging Station Management, Parking Foundation, BDV, AIOTI, IoT Forum, and creation of visual dashboards. Management, Air Quality Management and NEM. Waste Management.
40 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2001 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 38 MORE INFORMATION www.mbigroup.it CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT & LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
MBI has experience and interests in MBI solution for seamless vertical MBI is willing to explore collaborations with Business Analytics and Optimization, handover has been adopted by some partners whose intent is to to integrate where MBI provides customized solutions leading European enterprises. satellite communications in the 5G world, for Risk Management, Business Intelligence by applying virtualization and orchestration MBI provides solutions for IoT networks and Optimization to mainly the Telco, concepts to hybrid networks to be used for via satellite used in multiple domains Energy, Gas, Water companies and Satellite fixed and mobility applications. (agriculture, energy, public safety, etc). Communications and applications, where MBI is also interested in bringing its large MBI closely collaborates with the satellite MBI works with the main European satellite expertise on IoT via satellite in 5G networks. operators and SatCom ecosystem in a wide operators and the European Space Agency variety of innovative solutions in the area in the standardization, development and Collaborations with satellite terminals of hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks, testing of highly efficient, energy saving manufacturers should be welcome. entertainment, applications for mobile or and green communications protocols. automotive devices. MBI realized the first software MBI Research and Development activities implementation of a complete testbed for are mainly focused on advanced the ETSI S-MIM protocol. networking, optimization, signal processing, network planning and software MBI is patenting its solution to measure defined radio technologies. rain fields using satellite receivers.
MBI has acquired a deep know-how MBI is founding member of the 5G-MAG on Software-Defined Radio and GPU (Media Action Group) in which needs technologies and more generally on of the broadcast and media domains software-based approach for the are analysed in order to provide 5G development of ground telecom standardization bodies with requirements components, both at hub and terminal and specifications. side. 41 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2004 www.montimage.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
ALL VERTICALS EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI CYBERSECURITY (MONITORING AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION APPLICABLE IN ALL VERTICAL SECTORS)
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Montimage specialises in the development Montimage’s solutions have been applied to Montimage participates in many of techniques and tools for security and improve the resiliency and trustworthiness collaborative research projects that allow performance analysis and management of complex systems and adapted to different introducing innovative techniques into its of 4G/5G/IoT networks using real-time domains. The solutions can be extended to products. For instance: monitoring and cyberprotection techniques. deal with proprietary protocols and analyse INSPIRE-5Gplus H2020 project where it It provides flexible Security and Monitoring the behaviour and business activities of the builds advanced security solutions based as a Service adapted for SDN/NFV-based different sectors. on AI/ML for the detection and reaction to dynamic environments. Montimage’s Montimage has successfully deployed its security breaches, and identification of root expertise covers the detection, prevention solution in the SoftFire platform (www.softfire. causes. and mitigation of cyber-security incidents in eu) to improve the security of IoT radio SANCUS H2020 project where it builds both the data and control planes. Its security communications. It will also deploy its security management solution allows deploying innovative Attack Configuration Engine and solutions in the 5G network deployment in System Intelligent Defence solutions. and configuring monitoring agents to Paris-Saclay (5GOpenRoad). analyse network behaviour using DPI and AI MOSAICO French ANR project investigating techniques. Montimage commercialises advanced the assurance of 5G verticals latency solutions for creating instant 4G/5G networks requirements. Montimage has deep knowledge of network for emergency situations, for providing extra and application protocols and behaviour; bandwidth, and improving coverage. It has A notable result of these projects is the and, its products are completely build in- an ongoing collaboration with Cumucore to 5GReplay tool that has been developed to house. In consequence, they are trustworthy, commercialise 4G/5G secure mobile solutions generate traffic and perform penetration, adaptable, reliable, robust and can deal with in a box. robustness and scalability tests. It will be high throughputs and complex systems. exploited through a new open-source Montimage can rapidly provide proofs-of- project (www.5Greplay.org to be launched concepts adapted to specific needs. by the end-2021).
42 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2018 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 19 MORE INFORMATION www.nearbycomputing.com CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI ENERGY AUTOMOTIVE CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
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Nearby Computing S.L. (NBYCOMP) is a Nearby Computing participates in three Cutting-edge research and innovation fast-growing start-up company, founded EC-funded 5G-PPP research projects (i.e., constitute the driving force for the in Barcelona (Spain) in 2018. NearbyOne Affordable5G, Smart5Grid and 5G-MED) development of Nearby Computing. Edge Orchestrator is NBYCOMP’s on a diverse ecosystem of innovative use To that end, we are open to expand flagship product, bringing the first all-in- cases, including smart grid, automotive and our partnership portfolio, through one virtualized platform for deploying, affordable 5G private networks. Thanks to new collaborations with industrial and managing and automating hybrid, the agility and flexibility of our product, academic partners. We are interested in a heterogeneous and distributed IT systems, we are able to provide adaptive solutions broad range of complementary disciplines, networks and applications. In addition, according to the needs of the different seeking partners with expertise in AI/ NBYCOMP’s state-of-the-art technology projects, i.e., from management of 5G-ready ML solutions for network automation, 5G provides the capability of designing and applications and services to complete end- and beyond core network architecture, executing innovative complex value- to-end network orchestration solutions. application software development, as added end-to-end services. Our R&D NBYCOMP has won numerous awards in well as verticals with innovative use department has ongoing collaborations recognition of innovation in Orchestration cases. Our team members have extensive with mobile network operators, important and Automation of network processes on participation in national Spanish and vertical players, large corporate partners 5G and Edge Computing, while it has been European projects (e.g., IA, RIA, ERC grants, and public authorities, while it is actively included in the exclusive Leaders Board of MSCA actions, etc.) and the experience to involved in several public-funded projects the Intel Network Builders (INB) Winners’ support research projects from the initial in various domains, including automotive, Circle Awards, being the youngest company steps of the proposal phase to the actual energy and private networks, among to become part of this select group. execution of Proof-of-Concepts and large- others. scale pilots.
43 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2017 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 30 MORE INFORMATION www.nemergent-solutions.com CONTACT [email protected]
MISSION CRITICAL TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT ENERGY MFG. HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
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Pioneers in the industry, Nemergent leads Nemergent Solutions is involved in The R&D background shows the clear the way towards more open Mission Critical international R&D projects oriented to advocacy of the Nemergent Solutions Communications. Nemergent Solutions PPDR where it takes advantage of its to improve and adapt future MCS SL has significant expertise in designing best-of-breed products. The company communications and the importance of and prototyping novel PPDR (e.g. Blue is engaged in 5GPPP 5GENESIS project first responders and public protection lights) and Public Transport (e.g. FRMCS bringing the first real-world mission critical together with verticals such as railways, communications) solutions over mobile integration and use-cases over 5G and ports, fleets management, airports and broadband technologies, supporting US NIST/PSCR MCS TaaSting to fulfil the mining among others. The firm is devoted mission critical communications between needs of mission critical community for to adapt and adjust the current mission end users. Nemergent’s portfolio includes compliance testing (RAN5) based on TTCN- critical products towards 5G technology a complete and fully 3GPP standard 3 code specs. It has also finalized a OC2 and operations and therefore, aims at MCPTT/MCS ecosystem made up of early project in Fed4FIRE+ and OC1 in INTER-IoT collaborating with partners providing implementations concerning MCPTT/ and it has also been involved in US NIST/ orchestrators, MEC solutions, 5G Cores, MCS Application Servers (AS), MCPTT/MCS PSCR PSIAP achieving end-to-end mission gNodeBs, 5G UEs, deployables, drones, management servers and the Nemergent critical communications according to 3GPP PPDR-related IoT products, and finally MCX Client for Android and Linux operating specifications together with Sonim and other 3GPP MCS compliant vendors and systems. The server-side components are their XP8 ruggedized devices. Nemergent companies for interoperability purposes. designed as NFV components, fostering Solutions is a regular company showcasing These international collaborations agile and flexible deployments in 5G-alike its technology in different events and are intended not only to serve as an setups. The innovation-driven nature of counts with a network of well-established early adoption of 5G operations, but the company promotes the establishment partners. also to assess the service-level KPIs of of commercial links with different UE, IMS standardized mission critical products. and EPC leading companies.
44 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2020 www.neutroon.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING ENERGY CITIES
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Neutroon builds a management and Despite being funded in 2020, Neutroon Neutroon is partnering with different actors orchestration software for multi-RAT, multi- already got a lot of traction at international of its value chain to build a consistent vendor, private wireless networks with level. By closing agreements with partners ecosystem of connectivity and applications end-to-end slicing capabilities. The aim of from all around Europe, Neutroon is having to address several verticals spanning from Neutroon is to drastically reduce CapEx relationships with industries, system the Industry to smart city, smart campuses, and OpEx in comparison to incumbents integrators, mobile networks operators, and mobility, healthcare, and education. and building an ecosystem of applications service providers. Among the partners of Neutroon has experience in public funded running alongside with the core network, Neutroon there are companies of all size. projects and is willing to participate in more to solve real-life problems, especially in the The latest deployments and roll-outs of projects bringing both use-case oriented and industrial domain, opening the market to multi-RAT networks including 5G involved transversal partners. SME and mid-caps. the set-up of a hybrid 5G+WiFi network for The demo sites deployed by Neutroon are Neutroon makes it really easy for its Augmented Reality and Immersive Reality designed to collaborate with academia, customer (system integrators, telco applications, and the deployment of a large- universities, and R&D centers, to mutually operators, and enterprise directly) to scale demo site for industrial applications benefitting from the innovation activities deploy and manage multiple private 5G/ in Munich. Various applications related to that can be carried-out jointly. LTE/Wi-Fi networks from a single platform, safety, AR, and tracking, has been designed supporting multiple protocols belonging to work on an installation consisting of 3 to the cellular and non-cellular world. different construction sites in London (UK). Neutroon can also providing an end-to- end slicing mechanism to segregate radio, transport, and computational resources to gives performance as much deterministic as possible. 45 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2002 www.nextworks.it NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 50 [email protected]
SMART MEDIA & SMART TRANSPORT & EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING ENERGY FACTORIES CONTENT CITIES LOGISTICS
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Nextworks has long-term experience in 5G Our mission is to provide cutting-edge Despite the solid R&D in Software Networks control and orchestration technologies, built solutions and consultancy services tailored of these years, work is still needed to on top of solid know-how of ETSI NFV and to customers’ needs. In 5G PPP projects, realize the vision of Smart Networks for MEC specifications and architectures. We Nextworks is developing strong assets of any Vertical service on top. Key challenges have deep hands-on expertise with various software prototypes for 5G, NFV, SDN, MEC include aspects of control over multiple NFV MANO software tools (ETSI OSM, ONAP), and IoT. This includes: 5G Service Catalogue, distributed network control operating SDN controllers (OpenDaylight, ONOS), VIMs TIMEO (Transport Infrastructure and MEC systems; powerful abstractions and service (OpenStack), cloud native orchestration Enabled Orchestrator), SEBASTIAN (Service orchestration in 5G/6G networks towards far (Kubernetes). We developed solutions for Based Slice Translation, Integration and edge resources; seamless integration of AI/ IoT in smart homes and factories, AI-driven Automation), 5G VNFs Plug & Play control, ML solutions for closed-loop and zero-touch orchestration of Network Slices and vertical 5G Market Place, Experimentation platform network automation; flexible operation applications in cloud/edge 5G environments, for 5G services and IoT platform for smart of cloud-native edge applications; intent- both proprietary and open-source. We factories. Our prototypes are demonstrated based APIs and highly configurable policies also have strong involvement in SDOs, at international events, like ECOC, to control resource and service lifecycles. particularly at ETSI NFV, MEC and ENI, where EuCNC, ICT, OFC, MWC. Our background To properly address these challenges, we we are working in various specialist task translates into innovative IoT solutions and seek for teaming with international experts forces, NFV Plugtests and Proof of Concepts. consultancy services: i) Specialized Training on virtualization and control technologies Our R&D and products target domains on NFV/MEC technologies; ii) Technical (Networking Industry), service operation closely related to Media, Smart Cities, Smart Project Management for 5G trials; iii) (Telcos), vertical business service offering Homes and Smart Factories. Standards Development Support in ETSI (above all [Industrial-]IoT domain top and Interoperability and API conformance players for our target products), and top-tier Plugtests. academia.
46 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2014 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 5-10 MORE INFORMATION www.nouveaucomm.com CONTACT [email protected]
TRANSPORT SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT AI WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT CLOUD & LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
We develop customized Data 1. Design and Development of Remote We are looking for projects in Wireless communication solutions helping Environ Monitoring System 5G, IoT, Test Beds, R&D Services including customers to realize potential of existing Architecture, Software and Hardware 2. IoT Gateway with GPRS connectivity Network, while providing innovative Design and Testing. We are also looking for to cloud with optional Wi-Fi and 4G solutions in the field of unprecedented Business Development partners. interface to cloud for remote solar business and technological changes. power monitoring application We Provide 3. Prototype Trial in a small vineyard in • Innovations and products in wireless, Houston USA for LoRA based system IP and cloud networking, IoT, NFV and for Smart Agriculture SDN 4. Setup Website Design and Hosting • R&D Consultancy and Test Services Business
• Customized solutions for Tactical Communication, public safety and other vertical markets
47 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2012 www.purelifi.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT ~35 [email protected]
SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT LIFI MANUFACTURING CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
pureLiFi is the global leader in LiFi technology. Named Scotland’s most innovative company Just as 4G and Wi-Fi make up our daily We are bringing to market the world’s first in 2020. pureLiFi has deployed LiFi in arsenal of wireless tools today – LiFi as a commercial light antennas, which are the hundreds of countries worldwide covering 5G technology will be another key internet- optoelectronic components that make LiFi dozens of use cases. lifeline in everyone’s pocket. The future for possible in consumer electronics, lighting, and pureLiFi has lead commercialisation and LiFi is integration into all of our devices, mobile devices. miniaturisation of LiFi technology with the smartphones, tablets and wearable LiFi is high speed wireless communications launch of the only Light Antenna on the technology. We are interested to support using light rather than radio frequencies. market ready for integration into mobile today’s most demanding use cases including LiFi pushes wireless to new limits by offering devices, lighting, and consumer electronics in but not limited to: Smart home, Device gigabit speeds, ultra-low latency, high quality 2019. to device communication, Media & game connections with military grade security. pureLiFi are founding members of the streaming, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Applications for LiFi range from gigabit smart Light Communications Alliance alongside Reality. homes, AR/VR, and LiFi enabled mobile industry leaders such as NOKIA, Du pureLiFi is currently involved on several phones to industrial manufacturing and Telecommunications, and Liberty Global. EU Horizon 2020 projects (5G-CLARITY, defence applications. The pureLiFi team pureLiFi also chairs the IEEE 802.11bb ENLIGHT’EM, ALC, WORTECS) and will look for includes highly qualified, international light Task Group which is developing the Global more H2020 and international collaboration communication engineers and management standard for LiFi, ensuring LiFi is integrated projects in LiFi, 5G and beyond. experience in the mobile and semiconductor into every light and every device. sectors exceeding 50 years.
48 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2006 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 51 MORE INFORMATION www.quobis.com CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART 5G IOT NGI HEALTH EXPERTISE IN CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES
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Quobis is an European leading company in Quobis is one of the partners involved Quobis has broad experience working on voice interconnection expert services and in 5GTANGO project, a 5GPPP Phase2 international projects not funded by public well-known as one of the pioneers in the Innovation Action that enables the flexible agencies as is a key partner for some of deployment of WebRTC technology after programmability of 5G networks with: the larger network integrators and service being involved in the release of the industry’s a) an NFV-enabled Service Development Kit providers that see Quobis as the reference first WebRTC Application Controller. Today, (SDK); partner for projects with special needs in UC. this element is part of the core network Quobis is already cooperating in R&D&I of different telcos worldwide. In addition, b) a Store platform with advanced validation and verification mechanisms for VNFs/ projects with partners in Europe and Brasil. Quobis Communication Platform is helping We are looking at strengthening those enterprises from different industries such Network Services qualification (including 3rd party contributions); partnerships as well as opening up to new as telecommunications, BFSI or retail to countries and new projects. quickly adopt the most advanced ways c) a modular Service Platform with an of communications such as video calling, innovative orchestrator in order to bridge instant messaging, VoIP, etc. for improving the gap between business needs and collaboration between office and deskless network operational management systems. workers and creating a richer customer The main role of Quobis in this project consists experience.” of the development and implementation of the communication suit pilot, that enables real-time videoconferences using media VNFs, application VNFs and platform VNFs for the 5GTANGO platform.
49 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2002 www.quotientassociates.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 1-5 [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MFG. HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
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Quotient is an international strategy, We are used to both leading and We are looking to be involved in any of the technology, security and economics participating in multidisciplinary projects. above in a technology; strategy; testbeds consultancy to the communications Our skills lie in 5G new technologies in and trials; network or application security; industry. The company specialises both core and RAN, 5G network security and / or project management role. in all aspects of fixed and wireless and project management. We are communications, broadcasting, security, currently serving as part of the technical and spectrum regulation and management. design authority for UK Government (DCMS) testbeds and trials, which include the vertical sectors of Industrial Internet of Things, Smart Tourism, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Healthcare and Agriculture Technology. We also have an overarching security role across all projects, which are now all up and working.
50 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2006 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 15 MORE INFORMATION www.real-wireless.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MANUFACTURING HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT & LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
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Real Wireless is the pre-eminent A key partner in 5G-PPP projects in the European and International clients and independent expert advisor in wireless specialist area of Techno-Economics. partners that would gain deep insight technology, strategy & regulation Having worked in the thought leading on the architecture and technologies worldwide. We bridge the technical and 5G-NORMA project on Cloudification of of advanced networks. Our tooling and commercial gap between the wireless 5G we have published papers and deliver experienced consultants can rapidly industry (operators, vendors and for clients in the area of TCO optimal assess TCO, ROI and other commercial regulators) and users of wireless (venues, evolution of networks based on evaluation and technical metrics and provide a solid transportation, retail and the public sector) of potential ROI. In 5G-MoNArch we evidence bases of technical and business - indeed any organization which is serious developed capabilities to looked at Socio- validation of research projects. about getting the best from wireless to the Economic value creation. Harnesses benefit of their business. these two capabilities we now work in the 5G-TOURS project evaluating innovations and Use Cases across Health, Tourism and Transport sectors. We have developed analytic tools leveraging radio and architecture principles to develop quantitative analysis outcomes which inform our business, technical analysts.
51 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2007 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 7 MORE INFORMATION www.redmillcommunications.com CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT ENERGY HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
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Redmill Marketing Associates (RMA) is We work with leaders and innovators RMA is dedicated to fostering new a UK-based full-service B2B marketing from our industry, including Tambora partnerships with SMEs in order to help agency, founded in 2007, that is dedicated Systems, Telecom26, CROSS Network them reach new markets, define successful to providing telecoms and technology Intelligence, InfoVista, Polystar, Digitalk, market strategies, and to provide market companies with the support and strategic Spirent / Mobilethink, Gintel, 5G Briefing, analysis to identify growth opportunities. input they need to meet their growth and others. In particular, we are interested in delivering objectives. We are proud of our continuous support marketing projects in the following areas: We have deep experience and expertise for customers over more than a decade, 5G, IoT, Smart Technologies, AI and ML, of mobile communications and networks providing strategic input and marketing B2B and VAS solutions for operators, NGN and, in particular, 5G evolution and services to reach growth targets, M&A OSS / BSS, Core Network functions, EPC, market development. Our expertise spans goals, market penetration and expansion IMS and more. infrastructure, applications and services, targets, and to plan new sales and lead backed by a clear understanding of market generation channels. context and trends. Tambora Systems: transforming an Our customer portfolio covers: smart innovative startup into a fast-growing and technology, IoT, SaaS, mobile networks, relevant entrant offering orchestration of 5G evolution, network planning / analysis, dynamic network slicing to control latency AI and ML, as well as OSS and BSS. We and QoS for LTE / 5G applications. provide our customers with a focused Polystar: supporting an established and responsive service that acts as a provider of Service Assurance, CEM, Data seamless extension of their own marketing Monetisation, and 5G Network Load resources. Testing tools with strategic marketing input and content creation. 52 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2008 (UK), 2018 (Ireland) www.rfsat.com and Athens (GR) CONTACT NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES [email protected] 10+
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI ENERGY HEALTH CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
outdoor (A/D GNSS and Galileo, wireless, cellular, BACKGROUND, inertial and mobile) positioning and localization, INTEREST FOR FUTURE GIS and Location Based Services (LBS), Smart EXPERTISE & SKILLS Energy/Grid and critical infrastructure protection R&D&I COOPERATION for Smart Cities and other related technological RFSAT is a private non-profit research- areas. RFSAT is expert in networking and RFSAT invests in funded research under performing SME organization with offices in telecommunications technologies, including European programs (FP7, Horizon’2020, COST Dublin (Ireland), and Athens (Greece). Its activities 5G mobile communications, from high-level etc.) in areas of Information and Communication focus on applied research and technological algorithmic design to efficient low-level hardware Technologies, Cyber-Physical Security, development through national and international and implementation and VLSI fabrication on Environment, Space, Transport and Health. research funding, industrial consultancy and silicon, and cyber security. RFSAT is an active member of Networked commercial exploitation of research results Media (NEM) and NetWorld2020 European in the telecommunications industry. Main ACHIEVEMENTS & Technology Platforms (ETP), Integrated Mission focus areas include networked audio-visual Groups for Security (IMG-S), ENISA Network and media processing and communication for e.g. SUCCESS STORIES Information Security (NIS), European Connected unmanned and autonomous (aerial) surveillance, Health Alliance (ECHAlliance), European Alliance cyber-physical resilience including intrusion for Innovation (EAI), Infrastructure for Spatial Our company motto is anthropocentric and detection and prevention, multi-spectral and 3D Information in Europe (INSPIRE), and other social orientation in our research directions, surveillance/modelling for large areas, structures European alliances, platforms and professional having resulted in our technologies from and tangible objects (e.g. for Cultural Heritage organizations. RFSAT allies as SME stakeholder FP7-StrokeBack project integrated in stroke and Environmental protection, Security and with several ongoing projects funded under rehabilitation products from Meytec (Germany), Crisis Management etc), Machine Learning and Horizon 2020 and COST programs with various our 3D scanning techniques along with Artificial Cognitive Intelligence (AI) for situation past activities in FP6 and FP7. Its contribution algorithms detecting degradation of Cultural awareness, Mixed-Reality systems for serious areas have been in Smart Energy and IT critical Heritage objects from H2020-SCAN4RECO gaming applications, e-Health and tele-assistance infrastructure protection with applications areas project integrated into automated system of including Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) to of Smart Energy, Environment, Climate Change, Ormylia (Greece), while our innovative solutions address needs of ageing population, ultra-low- as well as Precision Agriculture, social network combining ignition detection on autonomous power wireless embedded sensing and control, analytics, vulnerability analysis and validation, UAS platforms from FP7-AF3 project have been immersive user interfaces, integrated Information interoperability of surveillance systems and successfully demonstrated by ELBIT Systems for Management Systems (IMS), hybrid indoor/ other similar areas. 53 fighting wild forest fires. European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2015 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 15 MORE INFORMATION www.runel.net CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT MFG. ENERGY HEALTH CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
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RunEL, led by Dr. Zion Hadad, consist RunEL was a main contributor to the world RunEL is an active member and in the of a highly experienced team of Mobile first demonstration of a 5G link over Visible 3GPP standard and ORAN Alliance, TIP and Communication experts that pioneered Light spectral band. The test was performed several 5G/6G Research consortiums, WIN the OFDMA Radio Access Technology [RAN] as part of the IoRL consortium under the (by the Government of Israel) and IoRL, 5 back in the early 2000’s which today is the European Union Horizon 2020 project and Genesis, Affordable 5G and 6G Brains (by the base line solution for: 4th Generation LTE included additional innovations, such as the Horizon-2020 Project) in which the company and WiMAX, 5G cellular Network and next PHY layer split, that later become an industry is collaborating with numerous companies generation WiFi Standards. Today, RunEL trend backed by the Open RAN (ORAN) and research institutes in the development tackles global challenges put forward by Associations. RunEL’s contribution to this and promotion of 5G generic technologies. modern communication and technologies successful demonstration was recognized by enabling mission-critical tasks like V2X the European Union Innovation Radar that RunEL is looking to partner with large communication, remote surgery, AR/VR and awarded RunEL the “Key Innovator” title. operators, OEMs and organizations more, by allowing Ultra Reliable Low Latency promoting investment and deployment of Communication (URLLC). 5G in the field. RunEL focuses on all regions of the world, with an emphasis on US, Europe and Eastern Asia.
54 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2006 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 41 MORE INFORMATION www.sevensols.com CONTACT [email protected] [email protected]
EXPERTISE IN IOT ENERGY SMART CITIES FINANCIAL
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Seven Solutions, worldwide leaders in the Currently collaborating with Tier 1 We are interested in collaborating in ICT- White Rabbit (IEEE 1588 high-accuracy technology partners towards the standard related H2020 calls related to telecom, profile) timing technology. It is a private eCPRI. Validating our solution with Deutsche satellite services, 5G, IoT, smart cities and held leading company in accurate sub- Telekom for the visibility network. energy. Cooperation with international nanosecond time transfer and frequency partners from different sectors to setup distribution for reliable industrial and pilots and PoCs. scientific applications. Our timing solutions have been validated during the last 9 years and we offer currently the best interoperable, dependable and ultra-accurate time transfer and synchronization approach in the market (nanosecond accuracy, deterministic, dependable and scalable). Seven Solutions provides solutions capable of distributing time and frequency over metro and long-haul 5G links in both back- haul and front-haul: - Ultra-accurate Time and Frequency Transfer (phase transfer using IEEE 1588 High-Accuracy Profile) - Reliable GNSS Timing Solution with integrated accurate Time Transfer capability over optical fiber (backup system) - High bandwidth & latency bounded Ethernet communications - Deterministic data delivery based for Time-Aware Applications 55 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2008 www.siklu.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 80 [email protected]
SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Siklu is a provider of wireless connectivity Siklu focuses on Gigabit Wireless Access Siklu has been intensively involved in R&D solutions based on mmWave technology. (GWA) and Smart Cities as well as cellular and innovation cooperation projects. It has Siklu’s products include both point- front haul and backhaul. By the end of 2018 participated in FP-7 projects BunGee and to point solutions with data rates as we had networks deployed in over 150 IPHOBAC-NG, as well as in H2020 projects high as 10Gbps for backhaul/fronthaul Smart Cities around the world. Currently RAPID, and currently participates in the applications and point-to-multi-point the largest mmWave market is the US, projects 5G-PHOS and THoR. Siklu is also solutions that may be used for broadband where Siklu has roughly 60% market share involved with other research consortia and fixed access applications or small-cell for 60, 70/80GHz systems. From a product collaborates on research with partners backhaul applications. Siklu has intellectual perspective in 2018 we launched our from both industry and academy. Siklu property in the RFIC and mmWave beam- 10Gbps product with the longest range in cooperation interests include mmWave steering antenna. This allows Siklu to the market, a new small size Terminal Unit radio and antenna technology, high- design mmWave remote radio heads for outdoor deployment hat is just slightly speed modem technology, mmWave compatible with 5G standards. In addition bigger than a typical smart phone, and our beamsteering antennas, 5G RRH, to our hardware portfolio Siklu leads the automated network design tool WiNDE. mmWave/fiber integration and other mmWave industry with a suite of SaaS ideas that may be exploited in our target applications including automated complex markets. network design tools, ROI calculators and management systems
56 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond FONT IN USO C: 75,78 - M: 22,27 - Y: 0 - K: 0 CGF LOCUS RESISTANCE NERO SOLIDSHIELD
YEAR ESTABLISHED 2003 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 3 MORE INFORMATION www.solidshield.com CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & DEFENSE EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT CONTENT SECTOR
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
We deliver automated protections Beside defense backed governmental or We view the following challenges for the for software binaries to ensure their customer financed projects, we have been close future of software defined networks confidentiality, integrity and license selected in two SDN collaborative projects and IoT: right enforcement. Originated from the (Sendate Tandem and Inspire-5Gplus). In • Moving from trade-offs to rock solid video game Digital Right Management these projects, our main achievements are trust and liability evidences. domain, our technology has expanded related to the continuous development of • How trusted execution environment with dedicated solutions for the defence our all-in-one automatic software SECaaS technologies can be leveraged with no and the telecom sectors. For the latter solution while preserving the software related risks (overhead, security loss, we have developed an automated SECaaS stringent performance requirement. For complex use)? model that anyone can use from software this, we have developed our special and • Benefits of applying AI-ML to enhance vendor to telecom operator. During this smart leverage of Intel’s SGX. In both software security. Conversely, apply ad two decade long enriching intellectual projects, test cases show how virtual hoc and measured software security journey crossing several and very different security functions can be introspected and for elevate trust and resilience on AI- industries and requirements, we have modified quite easily while these attack ML based solutions. gained an acute ability to create disruptive paths are occulted instantly by applying • Keep accurate control, granular solutions paving the way for emerging our protections and without any significant monitoring and fully liable geo-location trends in ICT. throughput penalty. for any instances executed anywhere off-premises.
We are looking for any partners willing to consider disruptive paths for today and tomorrow future un-answered or unexplored needs and develop altogether scalable and automated technologies.
57 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2012 www.softwareradiosystems.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Software Radio Systems (SRS) is the SRS is involved in international R&D projects SRS is looking for international partners team behind the popular srsLTE project which focus on novel applications of focused on RDI cooperation in the areas of (www.srslte.com). Providing a complete mobile wireless technology. The company emerging 5G technologies, cyber-security, open-source end-to-end mobile network is engaged in the 5GPPP 5GVINNI project V2X and IoT. We have extensive experience implementation, srsLTE is used by leading where it contributes SDR components in working directly with RDI partners to mobile wireless researchers around the for 5G, building upon its proven srsLTE accelerate proof-of-concept and shrink world and is the enabling SDR platform platform. In the US, the company has time-to-market and we regularly engage behind 5 of the 6 most recent coordinated successfully completed a 2-year project in projects under NIST, ESA, H2020 and vulnerability disclosures listed on the with NIST/PSCR under the Department others. GMSA mobile security hall of fame. of Commerce. The OpenFirst project provides an end-to-end reference network Commercially, SRS builds upon the proven srsLTE platform to provide customized, implementation for research, prototyping, high-performance 4G and 5G mobile test and validation of LTE technologies network solutions including IoT and V2X. for public safety communication. SRS Customer successes include operational works with the European Space Agency air-to-ground broadband networks, on projects related to multimedia delivery launched and active LEO satellite systems, over hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks advanced 5G field-test solutions and and efficient satellite backhaul of IoT deployed mobile wireless sensor and traffic. The company is a regular MWC analytic networks. exhibitor and works globally with Tier 1 mobile operators and OEMs. 58 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2017 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 20 MORE INFORMATION www.suite5.eu CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT DATA ANALYTICS MFG. ENERGY CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions is a data In MATILDA Suite5 worked on the Suite5 is highly interested in joint ventures analytics and software house with a strong development of policy models for which have R&D and Innovation interest focus on R&D and Innovation projects. applications that run on top of SDNs, in any vertical that either is in need of Suite5 participates in such activities as and in the area of Analytics that are advanced data insights and analytics, or an analytics and intelligence provider, able to the behaviour of systems in 5G expects to benefit from the application of working on topics such as big data, data ecosystems. Those two combined are in data technologies to traditional functions management and insights generation, a position assist decision making towards towards using data intelligence and in various verticals. In more detail, the network placement, deployment and softwarisation to explore value that is not company works on analytics solutions reconfiguration and could help to generate exploited yet. that are able to provide descriptive and new insights about 5G applications and prescriptive analytics, which are based new policies for optimum utilisation of both on structured and unstructured resources. data and are coming out of hardware and software sensors. The company participates in such attempts in the 5G sector (MATILDA project), as well as in other sectors such as Aviation (ICARUS project), Manufacturing (EOSC-hub project, UPTIME project), Cybersecurity (FutureTPM project) and Energy (FLEXCoop project).
59 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2014 www.superradio.no NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 7 [email protected]
TRANSPORT & MARITIME EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT LOGISTICS SECTORS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Super Radio AS, a high-tech startup Since 2016, Super Radio AS is leading the Our interests for future R&D&I founded in 2014 in Oslo, is the maritime world’s first 5G Maritime communication cooperation include: Massive MIMO, 5G pioneer for ocean digitalization and project “LTE, WIFI and 5G Massive MIMO Land-based maritime communications, autonomous ship. It provides professional Communications in Maritime Propagation Ocean digitalization, smart/autonomous maritime land-based broadband solutions, Environments (MAMIME)” funded by shipping, and radio channel sounding. radio channel measurement/channel the Norwegian Research council. In We are actively looking for partners in sounding solutions and related consultant 2017, World’s first maritime 5G massive telecom and maritime sectors like ISP, services. MIMO channel measurement campaign manufactures, shipping companies and with a research vessel for autonomous maritime infrastructure owners, operations was successfully performed in MAMIME project in Trondheimfjord.
In 2019, it become the 5G test solution provider for the small-version yara birkeland, which is the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship.
60 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2012 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 5 MORE INFORMATION www.syndesis.eu CONTACT [email protected]
SECURITY AND PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI HEALTH QT SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Syndesis Ltd co-founders are members of Syndesis Ltd research team together Syndesis LTD provides intelligent and the research team of NCSR Demokritos / with the research team of the of the secure services targeting mainly healthcare IIT (www.demokritos.gr). The company as NCSRD have been active in European e-services. Within the realm of its activities NCSRs’ Spin Off Company owns proprietary R&D projects (www.usefil.eu, profound. Syndesis has developed the iWelli.com technology IPRs and continues to invest eu.com, www.cip-reaal.eu, www.concorde- ecosystem of secure cloud-based solutions in R&D activities, further developing project.eu and others) developing cloud to help doctors, nurses and care teams to innovative technologies for secure and platforms (clinic.iwelli.com). Running sites monitor their patients’ health deterioration trustworthiness cloud based healthcare in Municipalities of Oraiokastro, Hrakleia and to help patients to monitor their services. Syndesis Ltd is conducting in West Macedonia, in Novo Selo in North health status while away from healthcare cutting-edge research and is developing Macedonia and in South Bulgary have premises. Sydnesis is experimenting in proprietary technology. It is continuously adopted the technologies and the Fhir implementing AI and beyond state of the enchance its services, integrating state of EHRs we are experimenting with (https:// art secure techniques to protect privacy the art technologies like PQC, intelligent remotecare2020.eu/, https://healthnet- of cloud based and 5G medical services. recommenders, secure techniques and project.eu/). Syndesis Ltd experimented Within this realm Syndesis Ltd is looking modules, IoT applications and decentralized with NGI applications where through the for partners to cooperate and set up pilot computing. Syndesis is experimenting Fed4Fire infrastructure (SDHS project) it trials and research infrastructures (NGI and with advanced Infrastructures to support setup of the experiment with three Nodes 5G and well as utilising QC technologies) to hosting, 5G applications, exploitation in the Tengu platform for two experiments. experiment with the with secure channels of Quantum technologies and big data The iWelli.com ecosystem (www.iwelli. to transfer health care big datasets. analysis to support security. com, clinic.iwelli.com, med.iwelli.com, mydata.iwelli.com) for Health and Well- Being consist of web platform, IoT Smart devices, 5G mobile applications (https:// play.google.com/store/search?q=iwelli), and AI algorithms. 61 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond TechNarts
YEAR ESTABLISHED 2007 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 14 MORE INFORMATION www.technarts.com CONTACT [email protected]
TRANSPORT & PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI HEALTH LOGISTICS SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Nart Informatics (TechNarts) is an SME TechNarts is the developer and TechNarts is seeking for collaboration founded in 2007 in Ankara, Turkey. Our implementer of the first successful, with SMEs, startups, telecom operators, expertise is developing large-scaled, country-wide and full-cycle pharmaceutical integrators, industry partners as well as robust, trustworthy software applications traceability system in the world. academic institutions to carry out R&D&I to solve complex and inextricable activities. Another flagship solution is STAR which is problems of enterprises. Our focus is on operational in one of the telecom operators Our focus is particularly on processing telecom, health and transport sectors as in Turkey for more than 10 years. STAR network performance data through ML well as government and non-profits. integrates multiple network technologies and AI applications, Zero-Touch-Network TechNarts’s network operations support and layers such as SDH, DWDM, Radiolink, management, IoT and 5G networks. system STAR, is a highly effective IP/MPLS and mobile (LTE/3G/4G/5G) and We look for partners from Telco sector solution for Telcos and in use for 10+ interprets the data gathered from 50K as well as from other verticals such as years, processing millions of network network devices in daily base. mobility and transport, smart energy/ performance data annually with complex TechNarts received 3 Seal of Excellence utilities, health, automative. and learned algorithms, provides real-time certifications from SME Instrument intelligence about the network’s current program and completed several R&D state end-to-end manner and generates projects realized with the national funding automated reports with big data analytics. programs. It provides critical value to operators by reducing service outage risks and TechNarts currently works on the new increasing operational efficiency. upgrade that will solve 5G networks. In addition, TechNarts is a member of The main activities of TechNarts are Communication Technologies Clustering analysing, design, software development in Turkey and participates its “End-to-End and integration. 5G” project. 62 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2014 www.telcaria.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MFG. ENERGY CONTENT CITIES SAFETY LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Telcaria is an SME providing 4G, 5G and Telcaria has participated in EU/FP7 NetIDE Telcaria research and development team other wireless technologies’ connectivity and two 5G-network-related projects: has experience in participation in multiple through private networks in Spain and EU/H2020 SUPERFLUIDITY, 5G-CORAL European R&D projects such as, FP7 and Germany. We accompany enterprises (shortlisted in the Glotel Award for ‘Best H2020. Telcaria is looking to partner with through their path to 4G/5G/IoT, edge and 5G innovation’ and CSI Award for ‘Best 5G verticals, vendors, academic and industrial digitalization in the assessment, strategy project and innovation’ in collaboration partners, interested in future R&D&I planning, development/reengineering with Taiwanese partners) and 5G-EVE, cooperation in beyond 5G, private networks, of software solutions, benchmarking and is an active partner in 5GROWTH and AI, Big Data, NFV, Edge Computing, SDN, analysis and deployment. Additionally, 5G-DIVE. distributed datacentre platforms, SLA Telcaria provides advanced services As an advanced network service assurance, network & service management to network operators and equipment virtualization and digitalization SME, and network intelligence platforms. We are manufacturers worldwide, partnering Telcaria has benefited from the technology actively searching for new partnerships and with network operators to redesign their advances generated from the previously collaborations which can further enhance products towards NFV/SDN based network mentioned projects acquiring the know- Telcaria product line or in the design of third- infrastructure and cloud-computing how for applying technologic achievements party enhanced systems, providing solutions applications. for rapid prototyping, design, validation, for operators and enterprises worldwide. Telcaria is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and direct deployment of 4G, 5G and other and has collaborations with the 5TONIC wireless technologies in private networks, laboratory as well as top Universities Edge computing platforms and advanced worldwide. We are currently working in multi-domain monitoring platforms. three H2020 EU research projects: 5G EVE, Additionally, Telcaria has disseminated 5GROWTH and 5G-DIVE. its results in mayor events and public demonstrations such as EuCNC, DES and 63 MWC. European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2018 www.treetk.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 75 contact.treetechnology@ treetk.com
TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN IOT NGI MANUFACTURING HEALTH LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Tree Technology is an R&D-performing Tree Technology operates in several vertical Our R&D activity provides us with company providing information and sectors, such as Telecommunications, knowledge and differential capabilities, communication technology solutions Health, Transport, Finance, Insurance, based on advanced technologies aligned based on Big Data and Artificial Industry, Public Safety, or Security. Tree with worldwide innovation priorities, Intelligence. Tree helps optimizing Technology accompanies industrial allowing us to develop competitive processes and business operations in partners in their digital transformation advantages. Tree Technology is very several sectors using advanced ICT, and business optimisation, contributing active in cooperative R&D initiatives, integrating emerging technologies as with expert knowledge in advanced smart both publicly and privately funded. part of the Smart Data ecosystem. In data technologies such as Big Data, Data In example, Tree Technology actively particular in 5G, Tree Technology is active Science and Computer Vision. In particular, participates in international R&D projects, in accompanying industrial partners such Tree Technology helps to exploit data to strongly performing in the European R&D as telecommunication operators in their add value to business, with the aid of real programme Horizon 2020 in different digital transformation, contributing with time data processing, data mining and areas, both as a partner and as a leader. We our knowledge in advanced AI and Big automated and deep learning strategies are open and interested in collaboration in Data technologies. In addition to that, (artificial intelligence). R&D wherever our expertise can add value. Artificial Intelligence-based solutions for Our core activity is in the area of Artificial cybersecurity in the 5G telco infrastructure Intelligence and Big Data, so we are are also offered by the company. interested to collaborate with partners and initiatives demanding these competencies.
64 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond
YEAR ESTABLISHED 2007 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 17 MORE INFORMATION www.tst-sistemas.es CONTACT [email protected] [email protected]
TRANSPORT & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT ENERGY LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
TST participated in the Flex5Gware project TST provides IoT custom solutions on the TST relies on a highly experienced team (http://www.flex5gware.eu/), focused on smart cities, industry (IIoT and Industry of telecommunication and electronics flexible and efficient HW and SW platforms 4.0) and precision farming domains. TST engineers with more than 15 years of for 5G network elements and devices, support companies to transform their research in wireless communications, addressing increased capacity, reduced ideas into innovative, profitable and sensor networks and IoT platforms. The energy footprint, as well as scalability, feasible market solutions, with main company’s goal is to create cutting-edge modularity and reconfigurability. Research focus on Smart City, Agri-food and Energy and competitive products and services, was demonstrated on proof-of-concept Efficiency business areas: some examples helping the clients to reduce operating implementations. TST participated on a are environmental sensing, level sensors costs. PoC for testing the reconfiguration of the for urban waste management, water Thus, TST looks forward to continue radio behaviour according to different control for precision farming and real time working with other potential partners optimization criteria, allowing for instance location systems. coming from both industry and academia, multi-cell dynamic resource allocations TST has a broad experience in R&D in R&D and innovation activities, offering and switching across different radio access projects, being involved in 20+ EU funded it´s experience in IoT hardware design technologies according to the link quality. research projects related to IoT, smart and development, smart sensing and Furthermore, TST’s participation in the services and future networks (from diverse system integration. The way forward for FLEXNET project makes the company programmes such as ICTFP7, ICT-CIP, TST includes the involvement in initiatives contribute to the development of flexible ICT-H2020, EUJ-H2020, ECSEL, CELTIC, related to 5G, Software Defined Networks networks, focusing in IoT use cases. IoT is a EUROSTARS or PENTA). TST’s research and edge and fog computing, retorting to growing market, and also an essential part activity has been recognized by the Spanish its expertise and know-how in the IoT and of the future evolution of 5G networks. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, networks fields. which awarded the company the official “Innovative SME” seal.
65 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2005 www.ubitech.eu NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 30 [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT AI SECURITY MANUFACTURING ENERGY HEALTH CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
UBITECH is active in a series of 5G PPP UBITECH has developed a set of intelligent UBITECH is highly interested in establishing projects, focusing mainly on the design and orchestration mechanisms (e.g. rules-based R&D and Innovation cooperation in the development of software development kits policy management framework for NFVOs framework of research and development and intelligent orchestration mechanisms as well as vertical application orchestrators, projects regarding the evolution of for network applications. UBITECH is the big data analytics techniques for network intelligent orchestration and slice technical coordinator of the MATILDA services and applications profiling) and management mechanisms, as well as H2020 5G PPP project targeting at the introduced them in existing orchestrators, collaborations with telecom operators provision of a novel holistic framework such as the SONATA NFVO as well as the and vendors towards the design of for enabling vertical industries to take inhouse developed orchestrator, known as OSS-oriented functions and APIs, as advantage of a 5G ecosystem. UBITECH has Maestro (https://themaestro.ubitech.eu/). well as the development of targeted AI developed various application and network UBITECH has also significantly contributed mechanisms for resource and elasticity services orchestration mechanisms, towards the design and implementation efficiency profiling of network services and taking into account the separation of of OSS northbound APIs, targeting at apllications. concerns among vertical application interconnection of vertical application and NFV orchestrators, as well as end orchestrators with telecom operators’ to end slice management mechanisms. network management systems. UBITECH has also invested on the design and development of a 5G analytics engine exploiting novel AI technologies, providing resource and elasticity efficiency profiling of 5G services.
66 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2007 www.ubiwhere.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 80 [email protected]
SATELLITE SMART PUBLIC TRANSPORT EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CITIES SAFETY & LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
From idea to product, from vision to reality. Ubiwhere was born in Aveiro in 2007, with Successful exploitation of innovative ideas Ubiwhere is a Portuguese high-tech SME a team of three, to do what the founders comes from our ability to imagine and develop focused on developing innovative and did best: research for the Telecom sector. new tools for dynamic and challenging sustainable technological solutions for Smart After developing software solutions for the environments. We have started our Telco R&D Cities, Telecom and Future Internet, in different most significant Portuguese telecom service roadmap with software tools that enable QoS areas such as Mobility, Environment, Tourism, provider’s innovation lab, engaging a telecom and QoE, going through the early phases of Energy, and many more, with the primary goal operator as its customer and joining its first 5G-PPP developing SDN and NFV and then of improving people’s lives. international project, the team started to grow, validating novel business models with 5G and so did the ambition. Today, we are more Neutral Hosting and Edge Computing. Today, We have participated in various international than 80 people, with more than 40 R&D projects, the Digital Nervous System is Ubiwhere’s take R&D projects, extending our software expertise having been awarded success stories from on unifying telecommunications, devices, on reference architectures for IoT, data FIWARE, BDVA and CEF Digital while actively networks and edge. Ubiwhere has long been collection and Edge Computing, and Blockchain, working on standards and best practices in working on this vision, always willing to provide cyber-security, and novel networks tools for AIOTI and ETSI. Our BDVA Success Story a way to use telecommunications infrastructure services orchestration, satellite communication, reflects on the roadmap since the company’s in reliable and repeatable ways. We are here for quality assurance and telecom-related foundation, having won 2020’s best video for the long run, suiting the future of innovation, standardization activities in ETSI. SME success stories. as smart cities integrator, as enablers for the When our ideas reach the product stage and Future Internet. market adoption, these are then exploited and commercialised via spin-off companies.
67 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2017 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 5 MORE INFORMATION www.urbanhawk.space CONTACT [email protected]
SATELLITE MEDIA & TRANSPORT SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT & LOGISTICS CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
We are a Bristol based startup into smart city From zero to post revenue in 18 months We are interested to join Smart City and relevant data driven solutions. We excel in with clients in insurance, logistics, IoT related projects, that are trialled commercialising early concepts. Currently, and marine. Finalised the Sea Traffic through telecom like in 5G, or in operation as partner in the 5G-Victori consortium, we Management European project in 2019. management like in rail, marine ports, or are trialling our Future Mobility solutions other transport operations. Wherever we with multiple rail operators across cities of can marry state of the art data technology Europe. Our technical skills are focused on of current and next generations with real-time large data processing in HPC, AI, commercial applications. 3D mapping and visualisation. We develop our own data platform that we deploy throughout commercial use cases.
68 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2008 www.vertical-m2m.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 12
SMART PUBLIC TRANSPORT EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT ENERGY MANUFACTURING HEALTH CITIES SAFETY & LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Vertical M2M has a strong expertise in As a telecom software vendor dedicated to We are particularly interested in any telecom software and PaaS architectures, IoT, we invest a wide part of our resources collaborative research related to IoT over and advanced skills in telecommunications, in R&D. and were involved in several R&D 5G networks (massive IoT, mission critical supporting many different telecom protocols 5G projects, among which the NGPaaS IoT, vertical IoT or Edge Cloud IoT) and bring through an agnostic approach. project (H2020 5G-PPP – ngpaas.eu), led by contributions either at the IaaS or the PaaS NOKIA, rated “exceptional achievements” by levels. With a 12+ year - experience in IoT, we the EC, or the SCORPION project, providing also bring a complete framework and sets IoT infrastructure to support these projects We also have a strong interest in 5G of tools for secured IoT applications over through our solution, CommonSense IoT applications for the energy, smartcity, public 5G networks, all based on a containerized Platform®. safety or industry/smartfactory areas and Kubernetes architecture. are eager to be part of PoCs or large-scale Over the past 12 years, we also deployed experiments applied to these markets. many IoT projects, with a particular focus on the following markets through mostly white- label solutions: - energy: smartwater and renewable energy monitoring solutions for Utilities - smartcities: smartmetering solutions, streetlighting services, building management,… - manufacturing/industry: predictive maintenance, process monitoring and smartfactory, putting together combinations of heterogeneous secured 69 IoT systems. European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2006 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 7 MORE INFORMATION www.visiona-ip.es CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI AI HEALTH ENERGY CONTENT CITIES SAFETY
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
VISIONA is a cutting-edge Information Artificial intelligence for machine vision is VISIONA is seeking EU partners interested Technology SME that has actively the core of all the solutions developed by in collaborating with our SME to identify participated in several open calls from the VISIONA which aim to address the needs of synergies so that we could work together research and innovation EU programmes, different verticals. on the creation of innovative solutions like the H2020 5G-PPP Phase-1 For instance, VISIONA’s approach to the and the design strategies for exploitation 5G-Crosshaul and Phase-2 NRG5 projects. preventive maintenance of critical energy of cooperation results in order to VISIONA team counts on with expertise infrastructures is able to detect, from an achieve maximum impact of 5G-related in designing big systems and managing autopilot drone, different changes in the technologies after experimentation. projects of big magnitude, in designing target zones in order to predict possible VISIONA is open to start any kind of project network elements and network services dangerous conditions on the environment related to artificial intelligence in any for NFV and SDN, planning and operation or in the structures.Image processing and vertical as the technology has a wide range of networks based on these technologies. deep learning techniques are exploited of applications. Strong background in virtualization of by VISIONA for: (1) people and vehicle functions that lead to 5G-ready innovative detection system in critical locations, and smart environments. (2) change recognition system on UAV VISIONA is specialized in groundbreaking imagery and (3) abnormal hot points media and artificial intelligence through thermal image. technologies as machine vision and deep VISIONA also counts on with a portfolio of learning. This makes of VISIONA a suitable innovative solutions for parking monitoring partner for any vertical demanding such and management, advanced surveillance expertise (from media to smart cities and of public and crowded spaces, and QoE/ energy related contexts, among others). QoS tools for video quality assessment among other.
70 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2004 www.westaquila.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 10 [email protected]
SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT HEALTH ENERGY CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
The company has already gained more than WEST has a record of participations in several WEST is a highly dynamic and innovative a decade-long experience by participating EU projects, including two ITN Marie Curie company, which aims at bridging the as a key technological partner in several projects (Greenet and Aquasense) focused gap between the academic and industry national and European projects, with on the analysis, design, and optimisation sectors. In this perspective, the company emphasis on integration of heterogeneous of energy efficient wireless networks, and envisions the possibility to exploit cutting- wireless interfaces and IoT. three IAPP Marie Curie projects, WSN4QoL edge technologies in multiple application (a healthcare-oriented project proposing domains. As an R&D company, there is Furthermore, the company is in one Wireless Sensor Networks for Quality of always a strong interest in fostering new of the five Italian cities selected by the Life), SmartNRG (dealing with new solutions cooperations devoted to study, analyse and Italian Ministry of Economic Development for energy distribution and management prototype solutions in the field of networked for pre-commercial 5G trials. It is now for smart cities) and CASPER (dealing with embedded systems and cyber-physical surrounded by a 5G eco-system composed improvement of the Quality of Experience systems. of network operators, chip makers, perceived by End Users in mobile wireless telecom manufacturers and vertical sector networks). WEST has a history of collaborations with integrators that refer to healthcare, mobility, EU partners from both academia and energy, safety and emergency management. WEST has also participated to a national industry sectors but is inherently open to project on Structural Health Monitoring, new opportunities for collaborations with where a WSN is used to monitor historical interested partners from all around the buildings after the earthquake of 2009 world. in L’Aquila, and UbiCare and CASA+, two projects aimed at remote monitoring aged people and patients who have Down syndrome.
71 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2012 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 135 MORE INFORMATION www.wings-ict-solutions.eu CONTACT [email protected]
MEDIA & TRANSPORT SMART PUBLIC EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI HEALTH ENERGY CONTENT & LOGISTICS CITIES SAFETY +
BACKGROUND, EXPERTISE ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
WINGS ICT Solutions develops solutions Environment: AIRWINGS. Beyond the delivery WINGS aims at further developing its development (hardware and software) for verticals, related of insights like pollution (5G-EVE), namely public and innovation activities through cooperation to the: (1) Environment; (2) Utilities and safety platform (5G-Tours), and recommendations with industrial and academic partners in infrastructures; (3) Production and manufacturing towards connected cars (5G-Carmen). B5G/6G and in diverse vertical sectors, related (4) Service sectors. The solutions rely on: (1) IoT to the environment (air quality), utilities (energy, technologies; (2) Advanced networks, backend, Utilities: ARTEMIS. Manage through 5G (5G water, gas), transportation (logistics, mobility of cloud and big data; (3) Artificial Intelligence and EVE) highly heterogeneous volumes of devices people), construction (smart buildings), factories, decision support systems; (4) Visualization. (metering, utility-networks management, aquaculture/agriculture/food-security, health WINGS has developed and constantly updates the installations security, water quality). and assisted living, security, education/culture/ products: (1) AIRWINGS (air quality); (2) ARTEMIS Transportation: WINGSPARK. Predictions in recreation. (utilities); (3) WINGSPARK (parking and in general smaller time scales, and ΑR-powered assistance WINGS has strong interests and already develops transport infrastructures); (4) AQUAWINGS to the driver (5G Tours). (aquaculture); (5) AGNES (food safety); (6) STARLIT Digital Twin technologies, human machine (health); (7) Logistics and Industry 4.0 related. Food security: interfaces, nanonetworks. Moreover, WINGS works on tools for intent- - AQUAWINGS (aquaculture). Embedding WINGS develops novel systems and components based networking, diagnostics, orchestration, on intent-based networking, application/ simulation. Furthermore, collaborations are multiple high-quality video and underwater drones (5G Heart). network performance diagnostics, intelligent built in the EU and beyond, on B5G/6G and on orchestration, system level simulation. WINGS verticals, for ensuring always sustainability and - AGNES (food safety). Transmitting large has teams specialized in software, hardware, trustworthiness. quantities of data with higher efficiency (5G optimization techniques, machine learning, IoT, EVE). AI, AR/VR, cloud and big data platforms. There are also extensive skills for project and technical Industry 4.0 / logistics: Mechanisms for management, work package leadership, and warehouses (Vital-5G) and for corridors systems design, development, and validation. (5G-Mobix, 5G-Routes).
Health: STARLIT. Patient monitoring, assisted living, accident handling, ambulance assistance, robotic-powered health preservation operations (5G-EVE, 5G-Tours, 5G-Heart, 5G-Era).
72 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED MORE INFORMATION 2015 www.zeetta.com NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CONTACT 25 [email protected]
MEDIA & PUBLIC SMART EXPERTISE IN 5G IOT NGI MANUFACTURING CONTENT SAFETY CITIES
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Zeetta Networks simplifies network Zeetta Networks currently participates Zeetta will be interested in working together operations and improves the efficiency of a to three 5GPPP projects: MetroHaul, with other European and international 5G network with intelligence and automation. 5G-PICTURE and 5G-VICTORI. partners organisations in a wide variety of Zeetta offers a multi-domain orchestration collaborative project focusing on private technology based on 5G network splicing™ Earlier in the year, Zeetta Networks 5G networks, industrial 5G networks and and slicing. Network slicing is the ability to announced as the lead partner for the applications and network orchestration and define and provide prioritised, partitioned €10m 5G-ENCODE project that will deliver automation where the company’s patent- and protected subnetworks to ensure that a private 5G network at the National protected network splicing and slicing business and time-critical systems can Composites Centre (NCC) in the Southwest technology can be used to optimise the of England. This is the UK Government’s run over shared infrastructure without performance of the network. interference. Network splicing™ is a unique biggest investment in 5G for manufacturing concept developed by Zeetta that allows to date and part of their Industrial 5G network slices to be joined in sequence to Testbeds and Trials Programme. The project extend reach for the provision of a seamless, consortium consists of 11 partners including continuous service. These technologies will Telefonica, Toshiba, Siemens and Solvay. play an important role in manufacturing ·The 5G-ENCODE project will explore new applications, particularly where assets must business models and value propositions be tracked across multiple sites, geographic for enterprise private 5G networks in an locations and indoor and outdoor industrial environment and test new 5G environments. The company has received a technologies such as network splicing and number of industry awards including GSMA’s slicing in a real operating setting. GLOMO Award, TMF’s Excellence Award and 5G World Award. In 2019 Zeetta Networks was recognised as a “Gartner Cool Vendor”. 73 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond YEAR ESTABLISHED 2013 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 9 MORE INFORMATION www.zenithwings.com CONTACT [email protected]
TRANSPORT & EXPERTISE IN IOT NGI MANUFACTURING HEALTH LOGISTICS
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS & INTEREST FOR FUTURE EXPERTISE & SKILLS SUCCESS STORIES R&D&I COOPERATION
Zenithwings (ZW) was founded in May 2013 Zenithwings currently takes part in different Zenithwings is actively looking for new to focus on the development and delivery of R&I projects, all aligned with our vision of opportunities to explore R&I partnerships, software solutions for High Precision Agriculture Sustainability. SmartAgriChain (agrifood sector) exploring synergies with relevant players from and Industry 4.0. and SmartBlueChain (blue economy) are oriented academia, and with private and public operators. towards creating web-based solutions linking the ZW operates directly in the sectors mentioned potential of blockchain technology to the supply Taking into consideration the challenges and before, as a software integrator, with relevant chain management, modernising the current opportunities brought by the Green Deal, which experience in data analytics, artificial intelligence, chain with security warranties, transparency, also impacts the 5G deployment strategy, we can visualisation and blockchain. traceability and product tracking in all phases. act as a relevant player to accomplish these goals in a wide range of industries. ZW’s current focus is to establish a 5G-compliant Operator 4.0, a project with the MIT, intends to sustainability-as-a-service solution, leveraging approach Industry 4.0 holistically, gathering and By focusing on sustainability, we also look digital transformation of businesses in different crossing quantitative and qualitative data to build forward to being involved in R&I projects that market segments, including: Food & Beverage a richer picture of the workers’ wellbeing and are committed to increase the efficiency of 5G (fisheries, winemakers), Consumer Goods enabling better predictive models. deployments, namely with the EC objective of (textiles, shoes, porcelain and crystals) and reaching 10.000 climate neutral highly secure Materials (cork, paper) industries. Currently we are also developing the digital nodes until 2030. transformation strategy of ERT, from the automobile industry, with a 5G-enabled Our close relation with the customer, and ecosystem of applications for the Industry 5.0. experience developing cutting-edge technology are crucial for creating a real impact.
74 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond SME SUCCESS STORIES
MORE INFORMATION www.accelleran.com CONTACT [email protected]
Accelleran participation in several national and industry partners (SMEs, big in dense deployment environments and European RIA and IA H2020 5G-focused infrastructure provider and big mobile such as cities. Accelleran´s dRAX Open projects enabled the different consortia operator). The goal of the 5GUARDS Interface RAN Intelligence with Neutral involved to leverage on Accelleran’s RAN/ project was to investigate, evaluate Host and Network slicing functionality vRAN Software Solutions and Small Cell and demonstrate how various services is used in 5GCity virtualized platform products to enable new 5G architectural with diverse requirements could be together with with Accelleran Small Cells paradigms (virtualisation, slicing, edge simultaneously supported by the future in different bands. computing,…) and advances required 5G network based on the concept of in future networks. The participation of network slicing. 5GUARDS envisioned 5G-Enhance: joint EU H.2020 (call Accelleran in some of these projects also three building blocks will contribute to H2020-EUJ-2018) and Japanese research distilled into the launch of Accelleran the realization of services with diverse project looking at testbed development ORAN-aligned Cloud Native Virtualised requirements: core slicing, RAN slicing for advanced 5G topics like eMBB in dRAX Open Interface RAN Intelligence and dynamic software reconfiguration. dense urban areas with high mobility. enabling AI/ML xApps in an open, scalable Establishing long-term research and interoperable RAN platform. Beside 5GRuralFirst: 5G RuralFirst is a co- collaboration between EU/Japan the pilot deployments where operators are innovation project led by Cisco and research institutes, Accelleran’s small currently evaluating the use of Accelleran a consortium of other partners from cell technologies are being leveraged for dRAX Open Interface RAN Intelligence to across business, government and infrastructure deployments. academia. Its first goal is to create rural enable the new 5G paradigms, one of the UNICORE: (call H2020-ICT-2018-2) with most important reference deployment test-beds and trials for 5G wireless and mobile connectivity across three main the ICT focus on lightweight Unikernel cases for dRAX, focused on the Smart Cities VMs. These software technologies will be vertical, is the Distributed Cloud and Radio sites in the Orkney Islands, Shropshire and Somerset. vital for VNF IaaS deployments allowing Platform for 5G Neutral Hosts envisaged by quick deployment and high scalability in the H2020 5GCity project, with deployments 5GCity: 5G-PPP Phase 2 project (call the future VNF IaaS networks. Accelleran in Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca. 5GCity H2020-ICT-2016-2) in which Accelleran participates with the migration of dRAX has designed, developed, deployed and is is participating with the goal of enabling Open Interface RAN Intelligence from demonstrating, in operational conditions, a distributed cloud radio platform for Kubernetes Docker containers or a distributed cloud and radio platform for neutral hosts. To do so, 5GCity’s main Openstack VMs frameworks towards municipalities and infrastructure owners aim is to build and deploy a common, lightweight Unikernel VMs. acting as 5G neutral hosts. multi-tenant, open platform that 5GClarity: (H2020-ICT-2018-2020 call): The following are some of the projects extends the (centralized) cloud model to the extreme edge of the network, with 5G multi WAT system with 4G, 5G-NR, where Accelleran has participated and is WiFi and LiFi technology. participating with its RAN/vRAN Software a demonstration in three different cities Solutions and Small Cell products: (Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca), and thus 5GComplete: (H2020-ICT-2018-2020 advance the state of the art to solve the call): 5G framework for secure 5GUARDS: Flanders (Belgium) based main open research challenges in the computing nodes. imec.ICON collaborative project 5G-based edge virtualization domain, involving the major Flemish universities including the neutral host perspective
75 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.acta.com.gr
LTD ACTA CONTACT Advanced Communications Testing Applications [email protected]
ACTA Ltd is an SME founded in October the 5G-TOURS and 5G-HEART pilot 5G ACTA Ltd is interested in cooperating with 2002 in Athens, Greece. Our expertise and networks are installed, by Ericsson and other parties that focus on optical, mobile, experience is as a provider and integrator Nokia respectively, ACTA will utilize radio and access networks. Special focus of long-term performance analysis probes and the KVaP application to is on the technology areas of 5G – IoT, monitoring solutions as well as ad-hoc measure the performance of the machine learning software, edge computing, network measurements. ACTA is a member network. The network KPI values will monitoring sensors, blockchain and in in two Horizon2020 European Union funded be compared to the required per electromagnetic fields monitoring. projects, 5G TOURS and 5G HEART. Vertical Use Case, to verify that the pilot 5G networks are providing, what ACTA’s experience and expertise, is promised. One telecom network from its KPI validation platform (KVaP) should be able to provide a solution application and use of hardware probes for all the Vertical requirements. Any in Telecom networks, will be utilized major differences will be identified and during the 5G-TOURS and 5G-HEART, discussed with the technology partners Horizon2020 projects. Currently we in the Projects, to either point out that have supported the efforts to convert the the required values are not achievable, user/Vertical defined business KPIs into or make adjustments to the 5G pilot network KPI’s, and specify the relevant, network installations in order to achieve measurable, network KPI values. When the desired KPI values.
76 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.arteevo.com CONTACT [email protected]
Arteevo delivers industrial, telecom and H2020 OPERANDO project – we initiated this business process automation solutions project by creating a concept of automated based on Distributed Ledger Technology Privacy Authorities that enforce online and Artificial Intelligence. Specializing in privacy of consumers through technological business-oriented DLT networks, Arteevo means. The project created two strains of uses its deep expertise in the field to solutions – for consumer using private web architect highly secure decentralized services (B2C), and for Government to Citizen automation solutions for telecom networks, (G2C) services. The solution allowed citizens manufacturing, healthcare, energy, IT service to control their identities and anonymity in management and more. using the web-based services, while enabling the service providers to comply with difficult Arteevo has initiated several projects to implement GDPR requirements. by putting forward innovative solution concepts. For example: FP7 ASPIS project – we initiated this project by proposing a highly innovative solar H2020 PharmaLedger project – Blockchain energy solution based on diurnal collection platform for healthcare and pharmaceutical of sunlight by dynamic, computerized lens industry, in partnership with 12 largest global arrays. The project involved specialists pharmaceutical companies. We initiated the in solar panel manufacturing, lens technological concept and the public part of manufacturers, and several partners this public-private partnership consortium, specializing in embedded ICT. It resulted created the blockchain platform architecture in the development of highly efficient that was adopted by the project, and are distributed solar energy solution. playing a key role in the implementation of the architecture and the multi-party Cooperation on SDN network security governance model for this decentralized using embedded DLT, artificial intelligence business network. and remote integrity attestation. Arteevo has partnered with leading European H2020 WeldGalaxy project – Decentralized telecom operators, research institutes and data platform for the European welding technology SMEs to create and advanced industry. Arteevo is playing a key role in technological and business concept of the design and implementation of the DLT- Beyond 5G network infrastructure security. based architecture of the platform, and has developed several key innovations – including automated confidential tender offer process over DLT, DLT-based standards certification process management, and more.
77 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.azcomtech.com CONTACT [email protected]
Azcom Technology is a leader company in Azcom have developed the Native Multi- on the Road Side Unit (RSU). Compared to a advanced wireless communication, with Service Architecture Proof of Concept (PoC), legacy architecture where all the application two decades of experience in the wireless showing the support of service flexibility and services are placed beyond the core Telecom market. We developed a complete using the decomposition of mobile network network, this configuration leads to a suite of software IPRs and hardware functions and their allocation to the edge quicker and distributed manner information platforms to build and deploy commercial cloud or central cloud, based on the service exchange, resulting in an optimization of the and special purpose solutions for cellular requirements. In this demo Azcom small cell network response, improving driver safety. communications, automotive, aerospace, functionality has been extended to support home automation and mobile applications. the control commands received from an Azcom designed and developed the OBU Our business includes both products and external orchestrator. This work opened and integrated the RSU with all the required services. The most recent product of our Azcom small cell product to the new frontier 5G CORAL vehicular applications, services wireless portfolio is a LTE/NB-IoT small cell, introduced in the 3GPP Release 15 standard and network functions, exploiting also customizable for different solution, such as including the implementation of Distributed an innovative multi-RAT approach. The providing private LTE/NB-IoT deployments, Unit (DU) and Radio Unit (RU), also enabling importance of the OBU has been grown and available also in NIB configuration software defined mobile network control. since it is also used as the basic block of along with our Core Network EPC. Azcom the implementation carried on by Azcom Technology offers also services, from Azcom focus is not limited only to the 5G in the European C-ROADS project (https:// turnkey solutions to the optimization of third mobile infrastructure, and in the 5GPPP www.c-roads.eu/platform.html) which party software for a wide range of clients Phase 2 Azcom joined the 5G Convergent aims to implement and test, in real traffic and in different areas from industrial 4.0 to Virtualised Radio Access Network Living conditions, cooperative systems based on automotive to home automation. This year at the Edge (CORAL) project (http://5g- V2X technologies and involve technology Azcom is engaged in development for its first coral.eu/). 5G CORAL aims to deliver a partners. Open RAN compliant product. convergent 5G multi-RAT access through an integrated virtualized edge and fog solution Azcom next steps are focusing in the Azcom involvements in H2020 framework that is flexible and scalable, where Edge direction of an implementation of ORAN started in 2015, when Azcom joined Data Centre (DC) are smaller data centres interface, and renewed interest in H2020 the 5GPPP Phase 1 5G Novel Radio than clouds, located typically closer to the and Horizon Europe projects to adjust the Multiservice adaptive network Architecture connectivity nodes and Fog Computing Azcom future vision and direction. (NORMA) project (http://www.it.uc3m. Devices (CD) provide computing, storage es/wnl/5gnorma/). 5G NORMA aimed to and/or networking capabilities on terminals develop a novel mobile network architecture or a near-terminal infrastructure nodes that provides the necessary adaptability and access point. Consequently, new delay in a resource efficient way able to handle sensitive services can be provided. Azcom fluctuations in traffic demand resulting contributed to the Connected Car PoC, from heterogeneous and dynamically where 5G CORAL technologies, functions changing service portfolios and to changing application and services, can be run on the local contexts. In the contest of 5G NORMA vehicles, in the On Board Unit (OBU) and
78 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.cyberethicslab.com CONTACT [email protected]
Respect, autonomy, dignity, privacy, and treatment. In ASSISTANCE (Grant Agreement freedom: there is no reason for these 875406), CEL has created a framework based concepts to be separated from technical on ethics and legal compliance and respect innovation and technological progress. for gender diversity that will help project Indeed, they are what CyberEthics Lab. (CEL) partners adopt more acceptable technology. strives to implement into business as well Some results that prove our approach is as research and development projects as right are as follows: an innovation consultancy service company. CEL has provided many other R&D projects CEL is currently working on 10 Horizon and customers with assessments of the 2020 projects that directly involve more technologies’ social acceptability from a than 100 partners across Europe. value perspective. First quarter financing amounts in 2020 In the context of 5G-SOLUTIONS project, in were 400% of what they were in 2018. which company employees act as DPO and Employee count has grown by five Chair of the Ethics Panel, CEL’s approach times over the same period to satisfy has helped to create awareness among new contracts for service provisioning. consortium partners of other ethical and legal risks that would have otherwise been ignored. CEL’s role in the process of creating socially responsible innovation ecosystems has been and is central. In PERSIST (Grant Agreement 875406), CEL has provided clinicians with a far-too-often overlooked perspective on gender and ethics that has allowed them to provide customised care for their colorectal and breast cancer patients pre- and post-
79 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.eantc.de CONTACT [email protected]
EANTC, as a German SME, is one of the NetApps certifications. In 5G-VINNI, EANTC and the applications for various industrial world’s leading independent test centers for provides benchmarking methodology and sectors. telecommunication technologies providing state-of-the-art testing expertise in NFV, vendor-neutral consultancy and realistic, SDN, and Network Slicing. EANTC’s focus on F-Interop was a Horizon 2020 European reproducible high-quality testing services. use case-centered, end-to-end testing will research project aiming to develop online test be applied in the project to develop realistic, tools supporting IoT-related technologies EANTC is participating in 5G-VINNI and representative, and reproducible tests. where EANTC heavily contributed into the 5GASP Horizon 2020 European research test specifications, tooling, and automation. projects having a leading role in defining The Innovation cluster 5G BERLIN is a joint advanced test methodologies for complex network between research institutes and 5G infrastructures comprising of NFV, SDN, SMEs. EANTC develops new test methods Slicing, RAN, and Network Application. for 5G networks and applications used In 5GASP, EANTC defines the testing in the 5G Berlin context. We focus on methodologies for NetApps (network end-to-end interoperability, scalability, applications) testing and the validation and performance tests covering both the procedures for the 5G network infrastructure network infrastructure (SDN transport, and defines and develops the guideline for slicing, Telco Cloud/NFV, edge computing)
80 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.5gsolutionsproject.eu www.monb5g.eu CONTACT [email protected]
eBOS Technologies Ltd is an innovative Learning, cybersecurity, quality assurance new innovative applications by SMEs. software powerhouse SME providing and data management, risk assessment technological advanced e-business software and compliance, covering a wide range of eBOS has the role of the Dissemination solutions to enterprise customers around the application domains, including 5G, NFV/SDN, and Communications Manager in MonB5G world. Headquartered in Cyprus, eBOS has a digital security, security of industrial IoT and and is also currently working on the design long history of engaging with international others. Our expertise has been extended of the MonB5G security framework, the research and technology organisations, in the context of 5G-SOLUTIONS (https:// development of AI-driven security algorithms industrial leaders, universities, research www.5gsolutionsproject.eu/) and MonB5G to provide novel mechanisms for mitigation organisations and SMEs to drive collaborative (https://www.monb5g.eu/) 5G-PPP projects, of network slicing threats, the integration technological innovation and bring best- including a recently funded ICT-53 project on and testing of all components and the proof- of-breed technologies to its enterprise 5G for connected and automated mobility of-concept experimentation. customers and the wider community. (5G-ROUTES). We apply our expertise In 5G-ROUTES, eBOS will undertake the to different vertical domains, including With an increasingly comprehensive role of the Innovation Manager leading the Factories of the Future, Smart Energy, Smart relevant innovation, data management and portfolio of software solutions, investments Cities and Ports, Media & Entertainment, in Research and Development are crucial to IPR activities, and will leverage its expertise in Transport & Logistics, Autonomous Mobility, front-end dashboards to design and develop eBOS. The development of eBOS product etc. portfolio as a specialist software powerhouse the tenant web portal for facilitating access has equipped us with core competencies eBOS is the Quality Assurance & Risk Manager to the platform including the presentation of which we deploy in R&D projects. The in 5G-SOLUTIONS with the responsibility of the results from the field trials. knowledge and innovation gained from our organising and supervising quality review/ eBOS is also actively participating in a participation to such projects are then fused peer reviews for all deliverables including the number of 5G-PP Working Groups, including into our solutions and services. Our activities implementation of the quality management Test, Measurement and KPIs validation WG, not only seek to improve existing systems plan. eBOS is also engaged in the design and the Trials WG, Software Networks WG, Vision to keep them competitive, but also explore development of the technological enablers, & Societal Challenges WG and NetWorld2020 radically new solutions and technological and in particular of the front-end dashboard SME WG. breakthroughs. Our aim is to identify new of the innovative smart KPI visualisation and emerging technologies and leverage system for facilitating the near real-time them to deliver cutting-edge, robust and analysis, presentation, benchmarking and cost-effective engineering solutions. performance validation of reference 5G network KPIs against predefined target Our core areas of expertise include values. eBOS also leads the design and intelligent front-end dashboards and the development of intent-based APIs for APIs development, advanced big-data stimulating innovation and fostering the analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Machine development, portability and provisioning of
81 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.8bellsresearch.com CONTACT [email protected]
EIGHT BELLS LTD (8BELLS) participates in Details of this innovation, and how it was ongoing research and innovation projects the H2020 EU research project “GUARD: categorised by the analysis, are as follows: funded by the European Commission. These A cybersecurity framework to GUArantee Innovation Title: Larger data set and experts also provided an independent view Reliability and trust for Digital service improved correlation; regarding the innovations in the projects and chains”. More specifically, 8BELLS their market potential. Market Maturity of the Innovation: implements a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Innovation Radar believes that 8BELLS framework as part of the GUARD embedded Exploring (based on a method described in this paper); as Key Innovator could open up new monitoring, inspection, and enforcement opportunities to commercial partners or tools. Furthermore, 8BELLS implements Market Creation Potential of the academic organizations, and trigger interest APIs for retrieving information about data innovation: Addresses needs of existing from potential customers or investors. traffic monitoring and to configure/program markets (based on a method described properly the inspection engine. in this paper); In general, GUARD aims to develop an In this analysis Innovation Radar also open and extensible platform for advanced identified the following project partner(s) - assurance and protection of trustworthy including our organization - in the project as and reliable business chains spanning a ‘Key Innovator’ in the development of this multiple administrative domains and innovation: heterogeneous infrastructures. It aspires EIGHT BELLS LTD to fill the technological and procedural gap between legacy cybersecurity models and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology novel computing and networking paradigms, GmbH by developing an innovative platform for CONSORZIO NAZIONALE the protection of digital business chains INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE that encompasses two main dimensions: TELECOMUNICAZIONI service integrity and data sovereignty. The In the near future, the above information project fosters the integration of security about this innovation will be published on capabilities into each digital component and the European Commission’s Innovation orchestrates them to improve visibility over Radar platform. The information will be vulnerabilities, attacks, and private data. accessible to the public via this platform, Validation and stakeholder engagement is joining the 6300+ EU-funded innovations assessed in industrial and medical use cases. already showcased on the platform. In this context, European Commission’s The Innovation Radar platform builds on Innovation Radar has analysed the the information and data gathered by innovations developed in the project. independent experts involved in reviewing
82 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.incelligent.net CONTACT [email protected] [email protected]
Incelligent is a company based in Athens, and thus enabling optimized network enabling other vertical/ 3rd party services. Greece, founded in 2014 by highly planning, targeted investments and smart experienced telecom business professionals expenditures and eventually in enhanced The role of the phase-2 5G-PPP projects, and R&D engineers. Currently, its workforce customer experience (CX) and maximized MATILDA (http://www.matilda-5g.eu/) and consists of highly competent software ROI. With regards to credit risk operations 5G-PHOS (http://www.5g-phos.eu/) should engineers/ developers, machine learning in the Telco sector, Incelligent has deployed also be acknowledged, as through these engineers and big data scientists. a credit risk minimization and risk-based projects Incelligent was able to mature its marketing solution for a major operator in technology and diversify, as well as enhance By following best practices in data-driven the Middle East catering to the minimization its product portfolio. In particular, the development (DataOps), Incelligent has of losses, the increase of sales opportunities following has been achieved: (a) Enrichment managed to systematically incorporate and therefore revenues, as well as boosting of the set of use cases addressed and of the latest advances in Big Data, Analytics customer engagement. the supported functionalities/ solutions in and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine its portfolio, leveraging on the capabilities Learning (ML) technologies in its product The aforementioned capabilities are similarly brought by 5G and its ecosystem; (b) research and development processes, exploited in Incelligent’s solution involving Positioning of the advanced functionalities resulting into a diverse product portfolio credit risk management and analytics-based in forward-looking (pre-)standardization that includes out-of-the box and production- marketing for the Banking sector. groups, especially in ETSI and others; ready, AI/ ML solutions, tailor-made for the (c) Performing validation activities and Telecommunications, Banking and Public Additionally, Incelligent is currently showcases, relevant to verticals entities (e.g., sectors. involved in three 5G-PPP projects, namely stadiums, malls, etc.) and in collaboration MATILDA, 5G-PHOS and LOCUS, offering with large vendors and operators; (d) With respect to the telecommunications its personnel the opportunity to enhance Improvement of the company’s position in sector, Incelligent has launched RAN.ai, a their competencies with respect to the 5G the research field and global market through suite of solutions built on top of advanced ecosystem. Through its current involvement the participation in various events, i.e. big-data analytics and ML/ AI for improving in phase-3 5G-PPP project LOCUS (http:// conferences, exhibitions and so on, as well telecom RAN operations, currently deployed www.locus-project.eu/), Incelligent aims as publications. in Greece for a major operator. RAN.ai aims to enhance its engagements in the to support the strategic decision processes Telecommunications sector and expand On the whole, Incelligent is proud to have with respect to RAN evolution by capitalizing its portfolio of solutions, adding new delivered contributions, which assist in the on its predictive and “What-If” scenario enhanced software modules/ functionalities. overall shaping of the 5G world and lead to a building capabilities. More specifically, it By combining fine-grained localization prominent European role in the field. delivers accurate predictions for traffic information and Incelligent’s advanced demands and subsequent critical insights traffic and mobility prediction mechanisms, regarding future spectrum requirements, the new functionalities and insights yielded network rollout and capacity needs. It will be exploitable by current products and further allows for the setup of scenarios to could potentially be used in fine-tuning evaluate the impact of strategic decisions network resource allocation, as well as for
83 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.innoroute.com CONTACT [email protected]
The Company InnoRoute (Munich, Germany) At the research side, the combination of TSN has achieved business success with a new and SDN became a technology trend. Being routing concept and their router platform the only supplier for both in one device made TrustNode. A feasibility study conducted the company a welcomed partner in German within a SMEINST Phase 1 project allowed us research projects for Industry 4.0. We were to verify the concept and to become partner partner in TreuFunk and are associated in two 5G PPP projects: partner in FlexSi-Pro and TACNET4.0. 1. CHARISMA: optimization of TrustNode Next step planned by InnoRoute is to offer a platform for ultralow latency. low latency networking service. 2. SELFNET: optimization of TrustNode platform for modularity and extension to SDN (Software Defined Networking). Thanks to ultralow latency and SDN support, we were able to enter the Industry 4.0 business. Today, major players from Automotive and Industrial segment use the TrustNode as evaluation and prototyping platform for TSN (Time Sensitive Networking, IEEE Ethernet). We got contracts to develop further TSN functionality for the TrustNode. Modularity of our platform allowed us to do this fast and at low cost.
InnoRoute’s TrustNode
84 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.iquadrat.com/rd CONTACT [email protected]
IQUADRAT R&D has a focused business Under the framework of the 5G-PPP project plan specifically intended on delivering 5G-PHOS, IQUADRAT has developed a a “new generation of research tools software that enables SDN-based dynamic for system level evaluation of wireless network resource management for 5G integrated communication systems”. The fronthaul configurations that optimizes company’s R&D department is involved in the fronthaul’s grade of service and power many National and EU-funded research consumption by adjusting the functional projects, and has extensive know-how splitting according to the fronthaul load in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) levels. The developed software has been technologies, Zero-touch automation tested by considering the 5G-PHOS at the network layer using state-of-the- converged optical-wireless network art machine learning algorithms for architecture, which proved that our network status prediction, IoT Networking, product can provide useful insights for the simulation methodologies for Radio Access development of resource management Networks, Software Defined Networking techniques adapted to fronthaul (SDN) and Demand Response algorithms architectures with virtualization and for the Smart Grid. dynamic functional splitting capabilities.
85 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.is-wireless.com CONTACT [email protected]
IS-Wireless (SME, Poland) has successfully conference (in UK) on 13-14 November contributed to the 5G Essence project where 2019, shortly before the project finalizes. the company is working on a centralized IS-Wireless is working on the delivery of a radio resource management for the cloud- complete software defined (SD) RAN solution RAN solutions in the two-tier cloud networks to be showcased next year. (especially multi-RAT scheduling for 4G and 5G networks). Moreover IS-Wireless is currently together with the Thales (France), ORION (Greece) and other partners working on planning the public safety showcase for demonstrating the benefits of 5G mission critical applications in coexistence with centralized RAN. The final demonstration of the 5G Essence as regards “mission critical” will be presented during the B-APCO
86 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.lionix-international.com CONTACT [email protected]
LioniX International has successfully prototyped a twenty-to-one optical beamforming module for the ESA Aidan Project. The modules will be incorporated into high-capacity phased array antennas by antenna manufacturer and project partner Viasat. This next development phase is underway following a successful test flight in May 2021. The next-generation beamforming modules, highlighted at the test flight by the Netherlands Space Office, use stress-optic tuning to enable power- efficient broadband beamsteering.
20:1 optical beamforming module from the AIDAN project with direct RF connectivity (transmit module pictured only).
87 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.montimage.com CONTACT [email protected]
Montimage is a French SME created in 2004. 5G REPLAY It provides a complete network monitoring Contact information and security management framework (MMT) for 4G/5G based on intelligent distributed Partnership plan: monitoring agents and application for providing: Integration of Network Core and Monitoring fine-grained and configurable network visibility; solutions within your system security and performance monitoring based Network core: on Deep Packel/Flow Inspection and Machine Set-up of Proof of Concepts • Flexible, agile, scalable 4G and 5G-ready core; Learning; automated management and control; • Reduce high upfront investments in the core; Deployment and operation of Network Core and and, customizable dashboards to define new • Pay as you grow based on actual used Monitoring solutions collected statistics and configure new views or capacity; customize a large list of predefined ones. Acknowledgements • Reduce OPEX due to better automation and more optimized network; Montimage is innovation leader in the H2020 Development partly financed by French ANR, • Integrated with software-defined networking INSPIRE-5Gplus project and participates in the CelticPlus and H2020 projects: and network function virtualization; H2020 SANCUS project dedicated to Beyond CelticPlus SENDATE: by the Direction Générale • Improve operator ARPU by enabling 5G network security. It also participates in ANR- des Entreprises and Systematic Paris Region personalized services to their customers; MOSAICO project with Orange focusing on Cluster • Fast deployment in 5 minutes; secure low-latency for 5G applications. It also H2020 SANCUS and H2020 INSPIRE-5Gplus: • IoT ready network infrastructure (slicing, participates in the French 5GOpenRoad project Horizon 2020 EU research Program efficiency); to deploy its tools in the ”plateau de Saclay” to ANR MOSAICO: Agence Nationale de la • Reliable and robust core for emergency and showcase innovative services taking advantage Recherche safety networks; of 5G in the fields of connected/autonomous • Future proof with extensions to become 5G vehicles, industry 4.0, and connected health. To overcome the lack of solutions (TCPReplay core. and Scapy are not 5G-oriented) to formally create Montimage is member of 5GPPP TMV and SME or modify existing 5G network protocol packets Integration with optimized services; caching, Working Groups, and of the French Systematic and inject them into a network, making it easy to content delivery, IPTV and OTT services: regional cluster’s CoPil Digital Infrastructures & test the network functions. • Traffic savings in packet core of up to 40%; IoT. • End-to-end latency reduced by 60%. 5GReplay’s main architecture: Incoming network Montimage collaborates with several SMEs packets are filtered according to predefined (e.g., Cumucore Oy in Finland), Industrials (e.g., defined rules that determine which packets are Orange, Thales, Nokia in France, Telefonica to be modified, forwarded or dropped before in Spain) and Agencies (e.g., ENISA in Greece, being sent to the output NIC. Ministère des Armées in France).
With Cumucore it has developed a solution Network monitoring: combining their 5G core and Montimage’s security management framework (MMT) to • Intelligent distributed monitoring agents; obtain a highly secure elastic and automated 5G • Fine-grained and configurable network core network box (described in page 3 and 4). visibility; • Security and performance monitoring based It has also developed an open-source solution, on DPI and machine learning; 5GReplay (www.5Greplay.org, launched in • Automated management and control; October 2021), that allows replaying 5G network • Customizable dashboards to define new traffic and performing scalability, performance collected statistics and configure new views or and robustness tests of the different 5G network customize a large list of predefined ones; elements. • Dynamically updated topology; information, statistics, configuration of e/gNodeBs, MMEs and UEs.
88 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.nemergent-solutions.com CONTACT [email protected] [email protected]
Q1 2019 marks the end of the first interoperable IoT vGW and also support the integration cycle for the H2020 ICT-17 virtualization process of core elements of 5GENESIS project and its five platforms in the 5GENESIS infrastructure among other Athens, Malaga, Limassol, Surrey and Berlin, core pieces and the KPI monitoring and together with its Portable 5G Demonstrator. analysis procedures. The 5GENESIS SMEs already had and will continue to have a significant impact on the project advances and achievements through the continuous provision of essential components and valuable expertise. With their work Nemergent, Fon, Athonet, RunEL, INFOLYSIS, Avanti, FOGUS and OneAccess bring to 5GENESIS standardized mission critical services, integration of WiFi and cellular access, a 4G/5G Core, a gNodeB, an
89 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.nextworks.it CONTACT n[email protected]
In the context of its activities across several 5G from business/service to network slice requirements; research. Starting from 5G PPP Phase 1, Nextworks has PPP projects, Nextworks has developed a strong the slice arbitration for efficient service sharing, re- already developed solutions for the joint orchestration asset of software prototypes for an advanced NFV usability and composition; multi-tenancy with service of cloud and network resources, as part of a wider MANO framework targeting 5G infrastructures isolation and SLAs management. strategy for energy efficient service deployments, with a and integrating innovative features for 5G telcos, demonstration at the 5G Global Event 2nd in November service providers and vertical industries. The core of The Plug & Play control framework, developed in the 2016. In this particular case, TIMEO orchestrated the Nextworks service management and orchestration SliceNet project (5G PPP Phase 2), allows to deploy automated configuration of the fronthaul/backhaul framework is built around the 5G Apps & Service customized slice control instances for verticals in network in the service lifecycle management (as further Catalogue, TIMEO (Transport Infrastructure and MEC the form of isolated control environments where demonstrated at EuCNC conference in June 2017); Enabled Orchestrator), SEBASTIAN (SErvice BAsed Slice customized control logic can be plugged to build the capability was further extended in the blueSPACE Translation, Integration and AutomatioN), the Plug a truly tailored slice control at runtime. These project to cover also optical-based transport networks & Play control of virtualized functions for 5G, and the functions have been designed from the beginning (public demonstration at ECOC 2018 conference), a 5GCity Software Development Kit. On top of these around the principles of modularity, flexibility and topic which is still attracting strong interest of network service management and orchestration framework, open interfaces, in order to simplify and fasten the vendors and potential customer. Similarly, Nextworks Nextworks has developed, in the context of the introduction of novel features, algorithms and even started very early to design solutions for sharing and 5G-MEDIA project, a 5G media use case for UHD media platform components. In this sense, Nextworks composition of network services in NFV frameworks, content distribution over virtualized Content Delivery assets are designed and prototyped to provide an which constitutes the baseline enabler for the efficient Networks (CDNs), which integrates and enhances open extensible and integrated framework to foster and management of network slices in shared and multi- source CDN solutions with Nextworks’ SmartHome stimulate the research in the network slicing and tenancy environments. Relying on these concepts, Symphony product. NFV area, providing an agile platform to quickly and SEBASTIAN already integrates basic mechanisms for efficiently develop, integrate and experimentally service-driven management, composition and sharing The 5G Apps & Service Catalogue, started as part validate innovative features in an ETSI NFV compliant of network slices (as demonstrated in EuCNC 2018, of the SELFNET project (5G PPP Phase 1) and environment. ECOC 2018, ICT 2018 and OFC 2019 conferences), with further advanced in 5G-MEDIA (5G PPP Phase 2), is the objective of efficiently arbitrating the execution of a generalized catalogue of descriptors that allows The 5GCity Software Development Kit is a toolkit multi-tenant and concurrent vertical services requesting service customers to bring their own VNFs and that allows wiring, in an arbitrary sequence, a pre- network slices. This topic is expected to draw much services into the 5G management and orchestration defined set of abstract functions defining the logical attention during 5G PPP phase 3, when several 5G layer, with unified ETSI NFV standard format where service chain of the Vertical service, generating the services will run in live trials. Here, Nextworks has applicable (aligned to the latest best of bread ETSI corresponding network service and virtual network already demonstrated a realistic 5G media use case that SOL specifications) and MANO specific translation function templates with all the complexity required enables Media Service Providers to build flexible and towards ETSI OSM and other NFV-MANO stacks. It by the NFV-MANO layer. The 5GCity SDK abstracts adaptable media distribution service chains, made up of started as part as research activity and prototype infrastructure’s low-level details and automatically virtualized functions, and deliver UHD media contents in the SELFNET project and further advanced to a translates functional components and business while users are moving in a geographically distributed consolidated catalogue solution in 5G-MEDIA project. requirements into descriptors of virtual computing 5G networks, as successfully demonstrated at the Further extensions are planned in 5G EVE project (5G and networking resources for the operational service. Mobile World Congress 2019. PPP Phase 3) to support onboarding and exchange of In the 5GCity project, the SDK module is planned to slice, service and function descriptors from multiple be used in the three city-wide pilots of Barcelona Deeply involved in the development of the main research domains. (ES), Bristol (UK) and Lucca (IT) to design the various areas in network slicing and orchestration for 5G, network service and experimentation scenarios of the Nextworks is in a strong position to successfully propose TIMEO is an enhanced NFV Orchestrator originally Neutral Host, Media industry use cases (immersive highly innovative solutions to its customers, above all in developed in the context of 5G-Crosshaul project media and collaborative media), and waste the consultancy market. In this area, the development (5G PPP Phase 1) and further extended in blueSPACE management through video analytics. and demonstration activities performed over the 5G project (5G PPP Phase 2). It is an ETSI NFV compliant Apps & Service Catalogue, TIMEO, SEBASTIAN and the NFVO which implements the ETSI IFA interfaces and The open and modular nature of the 5G Apps & Service Plug & Play control platforms, already integrated with information models for service and VNF/MEC apps Catalogue, TIMEO, SEBASTIAN, Plug & Play control and a 5G media vertical use case for UHD media content package lifecycle management. It extends the NFV 5GCity SDK is key facilitator of an intense collaboration distribution over vCDNs, are key references and MANO models with mechanisms to support advanced of Nextworks team with other researchers in 5G success stories to present the company expertise to resource allocation strategies for transport network PPP, who can easily contribute to the evolution of the potential customers, thus increasing competitiveness (SDN based) and network+IT, can interface to packet frameworks in their specific area of expertise. For and differentiation from competitors. If that’s true and optical network controllers via Transport API, can example, the collaboration with academic partners that today many companies are offering integration manage power states for network and computing allows to introduce new resource allocation algorithms, services around several of the orchestration platforms devices and is able to handle management and while the possibility to easily integrate new drivers developed in mainstream open source projects, it is monitoring of both VNFs and PNFs. for NFVI domains opens opportunities to interact a fact that not so many are able to go beyond what is with multi-technology infrastructure providers. These available there in terms of features and functionalities. SEBASTIAN is a tool for service-driven slice collaborations create multi-faceted value chains that Moreover, most of the potential customers in this area management and orchestration, implemented as part continuously encourage to investigate new research are developing their own proprietary MANO solutions, of Nextworks activities in 5G-TRANSFORMER (5G PPP directions. requesting specialized skills to enhance them and Phase 2) and extended in SliceNet (5G PPP Phase 2) introduce innovative concepts. Nextworks’ PoCs in This set of assets allows Nextworks researchers to early and 5G EVE (5G PPP Phase 3). It allows modelling and public exhibitions are excellent opportunities to present introduce innovative functionalities for the management instantiation of vertical-driven services in 5G network new ideas developed by the company, demonstrating of 5G infrastructures and the orchestration of 5G services, slices, with multi-slice arbitration mechanisms. Key their technical feasibility and potential benefits. features of SEBASTIAN are the automated translation often anticipating the major themes and trends of the
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MORE INFORMATION www.solidshield.com CONTACT [email protected]
SDN collaborative research project (2016- 5G Security collaborative research project 2019). (2019-2022) Developed an exclusive, Telecom Industry- Pushed Systemic (see above) several steps oriented SYSTEMIC software security in a ahead, leveraging Intel’s SGX, enlarging the Security-as-a-Service packaging, accessible scope of measured code to its called libraries. to anyone with access to the software On-going work on liability management under deployment binaries and willing to with several partners with the objective of deploy secured software (by software-based delivering elementary and proven security techniques). properties to software.
91 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.telcaria.com CONTACT [email protected]
Telcaria is an SME providing advanced multi-domain monitoring platforms, services to network operators and innovations in orchestration mechanisms equipment manufacturers worldwide. We to assist offloading and roaming scenarios partner with network operators to redesign among others. Additionally, Telcaria has their products towards NFV/SDN based disseminated its results in major events and network infrastructure and cloud-computing public demonstrations such as EuCNC. applications. We collaborate with the IMDEA Networks and top Universities in the area: Recently Telcaria successfully concluded UC3M, UPM, and UAH. This critical mass of EU/H2020 5G-CORAL, leading the SD-WAN networking expertise located in very close PoC which demonstrates how the SD-WAN proximity creates many synergies, having enables the federation of resources across the members of these institutions a history different administrative domains while of fruitful collaboration between them. maintaining the service uninterrupted and The company is currently working in three guaranteeing a certain level of QoE at the H2020 EU (5GEVE, 5GROWTH, and 5G-DIVE), Edge/Fog, enabling seamless migration collaborates as an expert in the Master of between radio access technologies across SDN&NFV technologies offered by UC3M domains by leveraging in roaming and and is currently actively developing and offloading capabilities. This PoC has had commercially distributing Alviu, its SD-WAN a positive impact by improving latency, solution. bandwidth and jitter by moving applications closer to the end-users, allowing service Telcaria has participated in EU/FP7 NetIDE providers to serve more users in the same and two other 5G network-related projects: area due to the increased capacity and EU/H2020 SUPERFLUIDITY and 5G-CORAL reduced latency of the Edge and Fog, (shortlisted in the Glotel Award for ‘Best contributing to reduce the bottlenecks 5G innovation’ and CSI Award for ‘Best 5G caused when application traffic moves from project and innovation’ in collaboration with user’s terminal to the cloud. Taiwanese partners), and is an active partner in 5G-EVE, 5GROWTH and 5G-DIVE. As an In the wake of 5G PPP projects, Telcaria has advanced network service virtualization SME, motivated current employees to develop Telcaria has benefited from the technology their professional careers to pursue a Ph.D. advances generated from the previously and has been able to hire new employees. mentioned projects acquiring the know- how for applying technologic achievements for rapid prototyping, design, validation, and direct deployment of Edge and Fog distributed computing platforms, advanced
92 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.ubiwhere.com CONTACT [email protected]
Founded in 2007, in Aveiro, Portugal, Ubiwhere is a high- leveraging Edge Computing and 5G radio technology and deployment of Network Services in a MANO tech SME that builds innovative, user centred software (such as C-V2X). The goal is to position such product Orchestration framework. solutions with two core areas of application: Smart Cities as a complementary feature of Smartlamppost: and Telecommunications. besides being able to equip such urban furniture with 5GCity (https://www.5gcity.eu/): This phase 2 project dedicated V2X radio components and Edge Computing shares the vision of Smartlamppost product in Our background on 5G deployments and our expertise elements, Unicle provides now Service Providers from the fact that both projects envision the usage of on the development of 5G network service orchestration the Mobility space, Mobile Network Operators and the urban furniture across a city to provide network platforms, MEC orchestration services and 5g services Automotive Industry with a platform which effectively and computational resources to third parties. based on NFV and SDN technologies, have allowed us to allows them to deploy VNFs and or Linux Containers Smartlamppost edge orchestration framework was take part and lead diverse RDI projects addressing the which will run co-located with the radio elements, considerably boosted by Ubiwhere’s participation in 5th generation network. More recently, and leveraged providing access to the user plane via the local the project and critical to Smartlamppost’s path to by the need of both our Telecommunication and Smart breakout and, thus, providing much reduced latency market. Additionally, this project allowed Ubiwhere City deployments and RDI projects, Ubiwhere has been which are key for CCAM (Cooperative and Connected to establish important partnerships and co-creation focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Automated Mobility) services and applications. activities with other partners of the project - namely, Blockchain. Such know- how drove our involvement in Accelleran, a Small Cell vendor, with whom Ubiwhere remarkable joint initiatives carried out by the EU, tackling NFVal tool is a software tool able to allow Network has already performed commercial activities in the challenges of the Europe of the future, namely 5G-PPP, Service programmer to validate both VNF and NS scope of Smartlamppost through 4G media trials in 5G-IA, BDVA, AIOTI, ERTICO and EIP-SCC IMET and packages (supporting different Orchestrators) and Portugal, following also the Neutral Hosting approach. boosted our contribution to prominent standardization in case an incompatibility is detected, allow its fast Having in mind the Edge Computing capabilities of our entities such as ETSI. identification by identifying its root cause. The tool Smartlamppost and alignment with the project’s goal performs three kinds of validation: of having different Service Providers from different Ubiwhere has been participating in the 5G-PPP program verticals deploying numerous applications leveraging through Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. This participation Syntax validation: The service descriptor and 5G, Ubiwhere has contributed with a V2X use case has fostered Ubiwhere’s position as an active part of the corresponding function descriptors are syntactically which led to a new product called Unicle (https:// 5G ecosystem while opening doors to the creation of validated against the scheme templates specified by unicle.io) (currently in BETA). Having contributed innovative solutions with great business potential. Listed data model of the targeted Orchestrator also with the front-facing multi-tenant web platform below, are the products which were created or affected of the project, the technologies applied in the scope by Ubiwhere’s participation in the 5G-PPP program. Integrity validation: The validation of integrity verifies of this platform greatly influenced the development the overall structure of descriptors through the of our Urban Platform, which has already been also Smartlamppost (https://smartlamppost.com/) is a inspection of references and identifiers both within deployed in the city of Barcelona (one of 5GCity’s clean solution that leverages on urban furniture and outside the individual descriptors targeted cities for trials). to elegantly provide 5G network deployment, EV- charging stations and edge computing capabilities, Topology validation: This tool provides a set of 5GZorro (https://5gzorro.eu/): With this Phase 3 among other plug-and-play functionalities, targeting mechanisms to validate and aid the development of 5G-PPP project started in November 2019, Ubiwhere municipalities but also other vertical businesses (such the network connectivity logic identifying potential intends to continue its commitment to create a as MNOs). Its modularity, offers a flexible and cost- loops/cycles, unliked nodes and potential network multi-stakeholder 5G marketplace, aligned with effective way of tackling current e-mobility and 5G bottlenecks Smartlamppost’s dedicated Marketplace app (https:// communication barriers. smartlamppost.com). Through blockchain and Smart Below a list of the 5G-PPP projects as well as its main contracts technology, Ubiwhere hopes to design the The Urban Platform (https://urbanplatform.ubiwhere. contribution for the previously mentioned products: new set of shared business logic and SLAs as Smart com/) was created from Ubiwhere’s vision of a holistic Contracts and benchmark 5GZorro’s findings when perspective of the smart urban environment for SELFNET (https://selfnet-5g.eu/): SELFNET project applying such set of rules in the telecom space: cities actively looking to contribute back to those who enabled Ubiwhere to define and understand the Mobile Network Operators, Site Owners, Spectrum manage it and their inhabitants, providing a global lifecycle of a Service Orchestration framework with Regulators and, finally, Service Providers. With this and integrated view. Supporting centralised collection Self-Healing, Self-Optimization and Self-Protection convergence of 5G technology and DLTs (Distributed and processing of data from heterogeneous sources capabilities. Smartlamppost product vision was Ledger Technologies), Ubiwhere hopes to enhance and city systems, while providing the seamless born at the end of SELFNET project leveraging on the existing Smartlamppost Marketplace with a integration and standardisation of different kinds of its architecture as well as on its monitoring and new trustless layer, effectively providing all of these communication protocols and standards, the Urban self action capabilities for the edge computing and entities with built-in protection mechanisms - as Platform helps the city with correlation of information orchestration framework. example, guarantying a certain SLA based on different for knowledge extraction, forecasting, reporting and monitored parameters which, if verified, may impact assessment, as well as to meet the Sustainable SONATA (https://www.sonata-nfv.eu/): In the reflect positively or negatively in the billing process Development Goals (SDGs) by taking into account the context of SONATA, Ubiwhere’s contribution was (automated P2P payments, through blockchain Sustainable Cities and Communities Indicators from mainly focused on the SDK for Service development technology) . ISO 37120 and 37122, among other indicators. component. NFVal tool first version was created in the context of SONATA (supporting only SONATA MANO) As a final remark, Ubiwhere is always seeking for Unicle (https://unicle.io) has been created out of and later evolved by Ubiwhere’s R&I department strategic partners that can provide strategic value to Ubiwhere’s approach to V2X and its convergence with to support other NFV MANO orchestrators (latest both its research activities but also to its commercial 5G technologies. Knowing the ever-growing relevance version of NFVal presented to ETSI for integration endeavours. Ubiwhere is already paving the 5G market of 5G in this domain, Ubiwhere has been capitalising in OSM). Additionally, Smartlamppost’s platform with the outcomes of the research it performed in the its knowledge on ETSI MEC and the C-ITS stack to targeting Service Providers (a relevant stakeholder in 5G-PPP program and expects to follow this row in the create an Edge Computing framework focused on the broader 5G multi-stakeholder ecosystem) shares immediate future. the deployment and management of V2X-oriented SONATA’s vision of an SDK for the development 93 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.visiona-ip.es CONTACT [email protected] [email protected]
5G capabilities allow us to implement VNFs infrastructures. To do so, the system needs the deepest learning methods for image to deliver computer vision services through to have a record of the initial status of the processing is that we need to have a previous the network by deploying them around the area to have a reference to compare with. reference to compare with. As a result, network. More precisely, for our use case, the the development process has a different deployment should be done in the edge as The third one, based on thermal image, perspective from the standard designing of we need to lower the delay to the minimum implements an alert system for the hot deep learning models for computer vision. to increase drone autopilot reaction. The points of the, in our case, dehydration drone is piloted by a VNF, having a manual, chimneys of the gas plant. This can be To complement the explained above, automatic and remote flight control. The applied to any other case. Visiona’s quality probe may be deployed computer vision results, done from another in the different nodes of the network to All implementations are based on images analyse the QoS and QoE of the video that VNF, may change the drone path depending obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on the detection and drone flight mode. the operator is receiving remotely. The (UAV). As a result, image processing quality probe can detect no video (video Visiona’s approach to the preventive techniques are a crucial part of the is cut), freezing, packet loss, colour errors maintenance aims to detect, from an developments. More precisely, Deep or audio defects. It has also the feature of autopilot drone, different changes in the Learning techniques applied to this field demanding a new network path in case one target zones in order to predict possible such as Convolutional Neural Networks. This of those failures are detected in the video, dangerous conditions on the environment technique is the base of most of the cutting- if in the edge the video is correct, of course. or in the structures. edge implementations of deep learning based on images. Regarding the artificial intelligence applied to vision, Visiona developed three systems: People and vehicle detection system in Different challenges are going to be critical locations. addressed with our approach. First, the use of drone imagery is a demanding task for the Change recognition system on UAV detection system, due to the reduced size of imagery. the relevant objects related to the complete image. Subsequently, the development of an Abnormal hot points through thermal implementation robust to lighting variations, image. environmental conditions and other factors Our target with the first implementation is to produced by the different scenarios is one of analyse infrastructures and detect elements our main goals. that could imply a risk, such a person or a Related to the change detection system, vehicle in a forbidden and hazardous zone. the capability of adaptation is a crucial The second one is focused on finding factor for the viability of the algorithm. The environmental changes in areas close to key main variation between this approach and
94 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond MORE INFORMATION www.wings-ict-solutions.eu CONTACT [email protected]
The WINGS success stories are related to the In the area production and manufacturing, 5G engagement in international cooperation, enabled the enhancement of the WINGS offering including H2020 and 5G PPP projects. Through in aquaculture, namely the capabilities of the these activities, and especially, 5G PPP, AQUAWINGS platform, through the 5G-Heart vertical solutions that leverage on advanced project. Streaming of many and high quality and wireless technologies have been conceived, drone manipulation was enabled by 5G. More while contributions have been made for specifically, WINGS ICT Solutions is producing the development and validation of various a prototype product in the aquaculture area technology components. for maximizing the growth rate, minimizing the feeding costs and monitoring the health of fish. WINGS has success stories in all the main vertical The AQUAWINGS platform has been constructed areas that it addresses: utilities, food security, for the above purpose based on the 5G-HEART smart city applications, and industry / logistics. project obligations. The platform has already shown significant results through its dashboard Figure 3: WINGS “Remote vehicular monitoring & control” with which a fish farmer can monitor the growth platform user interface and health of fish. The platform consists of a and risk assessment for customs operations, number of sensors, a camera and a drone for Vulnerable Road User (VRU) protection monitoring the underwater environment, is and green driving support, utilizing 5G/IoT powered by photovoltaic panels and transmits connectivity and predictive analytics based on the data through a 5G network infrastructure. advanced AI/ML solutions. The WINGS platform, The WINGS platform is shown in Figure 2. which also supports service level continuity for cross-border operations, has been developed within the context of the 5G-MOBIX , 5G-CARMEN and 5G-ROUTES Horizon projects, and will be showcased in real-life trials at the Greek-Turkish Figure 1: WINGS Smart Parking device deployed at borders in Q4 2021. AIA In the area of utilities & infrastructures, WINGS is deploying its smart parking solution at Athens International Airport in the context of 5G-TOURS and at a municipality in Central Greece. The WINGSPARK solution provides the means for effective real-time monitoring and management of on-street parking slots, municipal as well as Figure 2: Camera to be installed underwater, for private parking lots. The technology foundation monitoring the production, and to transmit through comprises IoT (Internet of Things) parking cabling and 4G/5G. devices with embedded intelligence able to detect the presence of a vehicle with high In the area production and manufacturing, 5G reliability, a cloud-based platform enabling enabled WINGS to design and deliver services Figure 4: WINGS “Remote vehicular monitoring & real-time monitoring and management and in the area of Transport & Logistics. WINGS algorithms for forecasting of parking availability has developed a platform and On-Board Units control” platform user interface as well as a mobile application for the drivers. (OBUs) delivering cutting edge functionalities for For the Logistics sector, WINGS develops The WINGSPARK mobile application aims at the automotive/transport sector, while additional solutions for the smartification of warehouse enhancing the user experience by providing functionalities targeting logistics processes operations and the optimization of end to-end useful insights for parking spaces occupancy optimization are currently being added. In the logistics processes such as end-to-end cargo and trends when searching for a parking spot, Transport sector, working alongside COSMOTE, tracking & status monitoring, delivery route while reducing unnecessary driving and thus fuel TURKCELL and FORD, WINGS has developed optimization, seasonal storage optimization, consumption and CO2 emissions. The solution a “Remote vehicular monitoring & control” automation of storing, picking and shipping is also integrated with third party components platform which delivers advanced functionalities processes through the use of Automated Guided such as ANPR cameras, LED displays, barriers such as Driver and Cargo remote monitoring Vehicles (AGVs), Human-AGV collaboration and payment kiosks. & vehicle control override, remote inspection
95 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond and autonomous product quality assurance. In the H2020 5G-HEART project WINGS is WINGS is developing these functionalities, in delivering, among others, a remote health the context of its participation in the VITAL-5G , monitoring system for workers in the DEDICAT 6G and Hexa-X Horizon projects, and is aquaculture industry. STARLIT aims at mitigating utilizing advanced technological concepts such as the hazards and risks for aquaculture workers warehouse digital twin, AI/ML predictive resource providing real-time monitoring and constant utilization & predictive maintenance, geofencing situational awareness of their health status and more. and environment. Workers are equipped with wearable devices measuring major vital signs and In the area of service sectors, WINGS offerings supervisors and/or professional caretakers with in healthcare domain have been drastically smart glasses, to remotely provide additional enhanced. This has been achieved through a insights to the medical experts. Thus, they can modular product suite titled STARLIT (Solutions be informed on the health status of the workers for digital health and wellness based on artificial being monitored with the appropriate alarms Figure 6: MigraineNet mobile application. intelligence and IoT), designed and developed raised if necessary, be on alert if the system by WINGS to provide support for wellness and identifies any abnormality in usual patterns digital health issues. STARLIT platform is based or forecasts time periods with increased risk For the prediction of seizures predictive models on AI, IoT, mobile and wireless technologies (4G, and improve their work due to the automated for Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals and Nb-IoT, 5G, Wi-Fi), visualisation and security, decision making and the direct communication a user interface for visualization purposes including dashboards, mobile applications, and from the dashboard and the smart glasses, the (signals, training models, inference/notifications) AR/VR applications in some cases. forecasting and visualization techniques. have been developed. A web application that incorporates various digital questionnaires Through our work in the H2020 DeepHealth is also being developed in cooperation with project we deliver solutions for the prediction psychologists from Otto von Guericke University of migraines, seizures, and the progression of Magdeburg (OVGU) in order to deliver a depression, while also exploiting the capabilities solution for assessing the status of subjects of High Performance and parallel computing. with predisposition or symptoms of depression providing further insights to the medical experts. The MigraineNet mobile application (US patent No: 10,943,696 B2) is a tool for migraine self- In the same area, WINGS is also delivering management developed by WINGS. The main advanced Electronic Medical Records (aEMR) features offered include: (a) easy recording of a and accompanying tools and functionalities migraine incident and its causes by the patient, (administration tool, database configuration and (b) collection of statistics about the nature of the e-shop) to be adopted by clients from diagnostic migraine incidents, their frequency and their units and healthcare settings. Figure 5: WINGS offering through STARLIT platform. weekly distribution, which can be used by the doctor to assess the patient’s health status, and Finally, in the H2020 5G-ERA project, WINGS will A remote health monitoring and emergency (c) prevention or mitigation of the strength of the use robots equipped with various sensors (audio, situation notification and optimal ambulance next migraine incident via its prediction up to one visual, signal, etc.) and cameras, complemented routing system is delivered through STARLIT in week in advance. With the support of Hellenic by AI algorithms for real-time situational the scope of H2020 5G-TOURS project. The main Headache Society, MigraineNet was used by response and decision-making, in order to aim is to address solutions for remote health 75 real patients, who recorded 875 migraine support healthcare and Public Protection and monitoring of people, especially when already incidents, from which useful insights were Disaster Relief (PPDR) use cases. diagnosed with a critical disease still compatible extracted about the nature of the incidents and WINGS digital healthcare solutions are shaping with home care (some form of cardiovascular the strategies followed by the patients to alleviate disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc.). The system the future of digital healthcare in Greece and the migraine’s pain. These observations are very abroad. allows real-time data collection and visualisation helpful for the doctors to better understand of the main vital signs and includes intelligence the clinical condition of the migraineurs. The WINGS is honoured to be part of the journey for the identification of current and forecasting application uses four different AI models, which of shaping emerging and future networking / of future health issues. In case of identifying were able to predict the occurrence or not of cloud / application technologies, in cooperation potential abnormalities, emergency notification/ a migraine incident with accuracy up to 73%, with its partners, including world renowned alerts are raised, and this, triggers, when making MigraineNet a suitable tool for migraine multi-nationals, for the benefit of the European necessary the dispatching of an ambulance and prediction. industry and citizen, while also having an eye to optimal ambulance routing showcasing real time the world. navigation of the ambulance to ensure the timely provision of medical help and immediate patient immediate transfer.
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3logic MK srl Italy Artklikk Ltd. Hungary 4GCelleX Israel Ascora GmbH Germany Abeeway France ASN Plus s.r.o. Czech Republic Accelleran Belgium aspien GmbH Germany ACORDE Technologies S.A. Spain Astius Technology United Kingdom ACTA Ltd Greece ATC Greece ADVANTIC SISTEMAS Y SERVICIOS S.L. Spain Ateknea Solutions Europe Spain AICO EDV-Beratung GmbH Austria Athonet Italy AITIA International, Inc. Hungary ATiT Belgium Albatronics Israel Atlantic Wireless Telecommunications Ireland Almouroltec, Lda Portugal Atlantis Consulting S.A. Greece Alpineon d.o.o. Slovenia Atlascom Ltd. Bulgaria AMBEENT WiRELESS Turkey AUSTRALO Spain Amledo & Co Sweden Avanti Communications plc United Kingdom Amphinicy Technologies Croatia AWE Communications GmbH Germany AMVG Turkey Aykan Teknoloji S.T.A.S. Turkey Ansur Technologies Norway Azcom Technology Italy Antares S.c.ar.l. Italy BALKANPLAN Ltd. Bulgaria Antycip Simulation United Kingdom b-com France AnySolution S.L. Spain Beacon Tech Ltd. Yoram Bar-Zeev Israel APFUTURA Spain Beia Consult International Romania AppArt Greece Bettair Cities Spain Bulgaria Applied RESearch to Technologies s.r.l. Italy Bianor Services EOOD (ARES2T) Blu Wireless Technology Ltd U.K Aradiom Turkey Bluegiga Technologies Oy Finland Aratos Technologies Greece Bluetab Spain Arctos Labs Scandinavia AB Sweden Business Integration and Business Montenegro ARDIC APPLIED RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT Turkey Intelligence INNOVATION CENTER C Tech Bilisim Turkey Ariadna Servicios Informáticos S.L. Spain CARD4B SYSTEMS S.A. Portugal Arteevo Technologies Ltd. Israel Cellusys Ireland ArtHaus DOO Skopje Macedonia CEVA-DSP Ltd Israel 97 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond Citypassenger France Epitomical Limited United Kingdom COMBALSAT ltd. Bulgaria Esempla Systems SRL Moldova COMSIS France ESPACI Spain Consultancy & Management Services Belgium ETA2U Romania Spain Consultora de Telecomunicaciones Optiva Spain EUROB CREATIVE Media SL Euroma United Kingdom Content Group Austria Austria EUROPEAN DYNAMICS S.A. Greece Core Network Dynamics Germany European Media Laboratory GmbH Germany Corporate Fiber Technologies AB Sweden Euroreporter Italy Creativ-IT Spain Evolution-net France Creativity Software United Kingdom Exagate Turkey Cumucore Oy Finland Excellis Business Consulting U.K CyberEthics Lab. Italy EXENTE Spain CyberLens Ltd United Kingdom Eyeled GmbH Germany CyRIC (Cyprus Research and Innovation Cyprus Center Ltd.) Feron Technologies P.C. Greece Das Photonics Spain FGFactory Ukraine DeFuTech Germany FIDO Intelligence Poland Delektre Oy Finland Filtronic Broadband Ltd United Kingdom Diamond Age GmbH Austria FirstPoint Mobile Guard Israel Digital Dispatch Finland FIVECOMM - 5G COMMUNICATIONS FOR Spain FUTURE INDUSTRY VERTICALS, S.L. DigitalTwin Technology GmbH Germany Florella Ltd Hungary Domos AS Norway Fogus Innovations & Services Greece Douglas Connect GmbH Switzerland FTI Communication Systems Ltd United Kingdom EANTC AG Germany Future Intelligence Greece Easy Global Market France GARD Israel EBNER electronic GmbH Austria GENERUM OY Finland eBOS Technologies Ltd Cyprus Gigasys Solutions Ltd United Kingdom eCom Scotland Ltd U.K Globberry Ukraine Edosoft Factory, S.L. Spain Globema Sp. z o.o. Poland EFP Consulting Ltd Israel Gluk Advice BV Netherlands Ege Sistem Bilisim Hiz. San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti. Turkey (egesys) Grado Zero Espace Srl Italy ELSIS Lithuania Gradus Bilisim Teknolojileri Ltd Sti Turkey Emblasoft Sweden Grant Thornton Advisory Czech Republic Emisfera Societa Cooperativa Italy gutura GmbH Germany Energy Sistem Soyntec SA Spain GWT-Tud Germany EPIDOTE CONSULTING Belgium Hedya srl Italy
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100 European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond Skaitmeninio Sertifikavimo Centras Lithuania TIGA TECHNOLOGIES SARL France Softeco Sismat SpA Italy Time Critical Networks Sweden Software Radio Systems Limited Ireland Torque Wind Turbine Netherlands Space Engineering S.p.A. Italy Tout Le Contenu SÃ RL Switzerland SPACE HELLAS S.A. Greece Treelogic Spain Spectrum Insight Ltd United Kingdom TRON ELEKTRONIK SISTEMLER AS Turkey SQS,S.A Spain Trust-IT Services Ltd United Kingdom Starhome GmbH Israel TST Spain Steininger Consulting Austria TTG Int.LTD Turkey Strosek Design GmbH & CO.KG Germany TTI Spain SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS Ireland UAB Telesoftas Lithuania SUNTECH LTD. Poland UBITECH Greece Super Radio AS Norway Ubiwhere Portugal SWAPCOM France UNIVERSAL K Ltd. Bulgaria United Kingdom SwissMedia - Swiss IT & Multimedia Switzerland Urban Hawk Ltd Association V.A.S. Telekom Turkey Synelixis Ltd. Greece Value Grid Germany SYNYO GmbH Austria Verhaert Belgium SystAG Systemhaus GmbH Germany VERTICAL M2M France TAGES France VirtuOR France Tamum Consulting France VISIONA INGENIERÍA DE PROYECTO Spain TARGET SISTEMI srl Italy VOCS Belgium Targeting Innovation Ltd U.K WAVECOMM S.r.l. Italy T-CONNECT SRL Italy WEST Aquila Srl Italy Tekever Portugal WIBU-SYSTEMS AG Germany Telcaria Ideas SL Spain Widian Ltd Finland Telebid Ltd. Bulgaria WINGS ICT Solutions Greece Telecompare S.A. Greece WIT-Software Lda Portugal Telemetry Associates Limited U.K WIZI Portugal Telenity Turkey WOM - While on the Move Finland TELETEL SA Greece Xenia Network Solutions Italy Telscom AG Switzerland Yonga Technology Microelectronics R&D Turkey The National Microelectronics Applications Ireland Centre Ltd YOUMOVE LDA Portugal The Quality Group it vision GmbH Germany Zeetta Networks Limited United Kingdom Thema TV France Think Light Sweden
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