{"id":23389,"date":"2020-07-31T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=23389"},"modified":"2020-07-31T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:45:36","slug":"government-names-uk-5g-create-pilots-for-30m-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/government-names-uk-5g-create-pilots-for-30m-investment.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Names UK 5G Create Pilots for \u00a330m Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of this year the UK Government unveiled a \u00a330m package to support an open competition (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/government-hand-65m-to-new-uk-5g-mobile-broadband-trials.html\">here<\/a>), which aimed to look at how ultrafast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile (mobile broadband) could create &#8220;<em>new opportunities in industries including film, TV, video games, logistics and tourism.<\/em>&#8221; The winning projects have now been revealed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All of this forms part of the wider \u00a3200m <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/government-unveil-six-uk-winners-25m-5g-mobile-trials.html\">5G Testbeds and Trials Programme<\/a><\/strong>, which began in 2018 with a smaller selection of pilots but has since branched out. Under the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/5g-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>5G Create<\/strong><\/a> scheme several projects in Sunderland, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton and Suffolk will now benefit from funding to test their ideas and technologies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The \u00a330m package consists of \u00a316.4m from the government, which is to be match-funded by businesses and local authorities etc.<\/div>\n<p>The projects cover everything from AI-controlled traffic lights to exploring how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Sport can harness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> for watching live sports through virtual reality and helping to reduce the cost of the RAF&#8217;s future Tempest fighter jet (assuming that ever actually gets off the ground). You can see the full list below the quote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Matt Warman, UK Minister for Digital Infrastructure, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are helping innovative thinkers across Britain use their creativity to harness the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> and boost economic productivity, cut pollution and congestion, and develop the next generation of entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The new funding we are announcing today will help us pioneer new ways to seize the opportunities of 5G and bring tangible benefits for consumers and businesses across the country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One easily overlooked point concerns how this is the first time that the UK Government have involved Samsung as a 5G vendor in the programme, which Clive Dowden MP said is &#8220;<em>an important step towards diversifying our 5G network<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. more suppliers beyond Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson etc.).<\/p>\n<p>A second round of new projects to receive funding through 5G Create will be announced in the autumn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>5G FoF (Factory of the Future):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a39,517,019<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a34,793,162<br \/>\nProject location: North West<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p>BAE, Advanced Manufacturing Catapult and IBM will lead a large project in Preston that ultimately aims to deliver the Tempest fighter jet at half its current cost, and to drive UK global manufacturing competitiveness. The project aims to develop integrated solutions to some of the key challenges to deploying 5G technologies in manufacturing, using 5G to test use cases such as robotic assembly, reconfigurable product assembly lines and distributed and shared VR\/AR. The programme will establish a primary site at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) North West and secondary sites in BAE Systems Warton and AMRC Sheffield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>5G Festival:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a33,438,497<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a32,238,692<br \/>\nProject location: South East<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p>The \u20185G Festival\u2019 (5GF) project will demonstrate how 5G can enable the empowerment of the music industry to bring live festivals and music events to audiences no matter where they are in the world. Using a cutting edge, immersive platform that leverages high bandwidth and ultra-low latency 5G technology, audiences and artists will connect seamlessly across continents, driving new experiences from the home as well as major venues such as the Brighton Dome and the 02 Arena, using most advanced 5G facilities by Digital Catapult and Telefonica. For example a music fan in Edinburgh could experience their favorite artist live in LA, collaborating with another artist in London, all without having to leave their front room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Smart Junctions 5G:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a32,336,392<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a31,160,778<br \/>\nProject location: North West<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p>Visionable, Weaver Labs (both UK SMEs) and Transport for Greater Manchester aim to deliver AI traffic control systems to reduce congestion and pollution as well as improving productivity by cutting waiting times at traffic signals. The project aims to use a 5G small cell networks to decrease infrastructure costs for the connection of sensors at every junction, removing the need to mount hardware onto buildings in district centre locations as well as supporting connected bus projects and other mobility based public services. This project fosters innovation in the telecoms using open architectures and a new network deployment approach that allows for new domestic SMEs to contribute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>5G Edge-XR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a32,558,494<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a31,486,004<br \/>\nProject location: East Anglia<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>\u2019s Media and Research teams are working with TheGridFactory, Condense Reality, Dance East, Bristol University and Salsa Sound. Among the work to be developed are virtual and augmented reality experiences to complement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Sport\u2019s services. 5G Edge-XR will for example demonstrate how 5G networks, coupled with cloud graphics processing units, could enable people to view immersive sporting events from all angles across a broader range of devices including smartphones, tablets, AR and VR headsets and TVs. It will also help realise the vision and potential of 5G networks to create new opportunities for UK businesses at home and internationally, and encourage inward investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Liverpool 5G create<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a37,146,261<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a34,302,596<br \/>\nProject location: North West<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p>A group of local healthcare bodies, the University of Liverpool, BluWireless (a UK 5G kit vendor) Broadway Partners (a small UK mobile operator) will build a 5G network designed to benefit local NHS, social care services and other public bodies in a post-Covid-19 world. It will use private 5G networks to develop affordable connectivity for remote health and social care, improving future resilience and reducing inequalities that arise from lack of affordable access. This builds on the existing 5GTT funded project in Liverpool and develops the commercial business case for and testing new applications in the health and social care sector. The project will stimulate the development of low-cost 5G technology as well as improving future pandemic resilience and reducing inequalities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>5G CAVL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Total project value: \u00a34,851,780<br \/>\nDCMS funding: \u00a32,422,370<br \/>\nProject location: North East<\/p>\n<p>Project Summary:<\/p>\n<p>5G CAL will deliver a huge stride forward in Connected and Automated Logistics (CAL), taking 5G enabled solutions out of the testbed into an operational manufacturing environment. Nissan, Sunderland Council, the North East Motor Manufacturers Group and Three will deliver 5G-connected, autonomous 40-tonne trucks to distribute parts and assemblies across the Nissan plant, linking to many local SMEs in their supply chain. As with 5G FoF, this is about driving operational efficiencies and improving productivity. Their vision is to develop a globally unique centre of excellence and operational test facility for CAL at the Nissan Sunderland site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of this year the UK Government unveiled a \u00a330m package to support an open competition (here), which aimed to look at how ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) could create &#8220;new opportunities in industries including film, TV, video games, logistics and tourism.&#8221; The winning projects have now been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,60,38],"class_list":["post-23389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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