Acronym: TrialsNet
Project Title: TRials supported by Smart Networks beyond 5G (TrialsNet)
Duration: 36 months (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2025)

Description: Smart Cities have already attracted attention as one of the possible solutions to improve “livability” and people’s quality of life. Beyond 5G and 6G are candidate technologies to positively impact aspects of immense social value as sustainability, resilience, inclusion, trust, security, etc.

TrialsNet vision is to enable the realisation of compelling societal values through the implementation of 5G and beyond applications, which will be propaedeutic for the transition towards the next generation of mobile networks.

Objectives:TrialsNet will deploy full large-scale trials to implement a heterogeneous and comprehensive set of innovative 6G applications based on various technologies such as Cobots, Metaverse, massive twinning, Internet of Senses, and others, covering the three relevant domains of the urban ecosystems in Europe identified as i) Infrastructure, Transportation, Security & Safety, ii) eHealth & Emergency, and iii) Culture, Tourism & Entertainment. This future ecosystem is on course to be more collaborative and inclusive than previous generations of network, and TrialsNet aims to lead the way by promoting open architectures, large experimentation sites and taking a multi-stakeholder approach with the objective to connect the digital with the physical and natural worlds.

TrialsNet will propose technological innovations towards real-life services in the communication area, to enable Europe to achieve a leading position also in the standardization process (e.g., 3GPP, ETSI), thus securing a leading position for Europe in the global ICT market over the coming years.

Thanks to its activities, TrialsNet will contribute to Europe’s technological leadership in communication technologies and in future emerging enabling technologies, by strengthening European capacities in key parts of future services.

In the context of the three domains introduced above, TrialsNet is going to design and implement 13 innovative use cases that will be developed over wide coverage areas with the involvement of extended sets of real users in 4 geographical clusters, located in Italy, Spain, Greece and Romania respectively. The TrialsNet use cases have been conceived as transversal: the pan-European clusters of TrialsNet targets use cases for the identified domains and, most importantly, different implementations of the same use case are potentially developable in more clusters. This approach allows for a holistic evaluation of the network KPIs and KVIs of the 6G applications in different contexts and scenarios, including different network deployments and solutions.

HIT key role and responsibilities: CERTH/HIT participates in the organisation and execution of the project's Open Call, also coordinating the monitoring and evaluation of the activities and results of the selected proposals, as well as linking their results to existing project activities and large-scale pilot tests.

Also, CERTH/HIT participates in the identification, development, integration and demonstration of the Smart crowd monitoring and MCI and Emergency Rescue UCs which will be tested in real on site conditions in Technopolis, Athens, giving emphasis to the most vulnerable users/travellers.

Contact person:
Matina Loukea
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Aristotelis Spiliotis
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