The 5TONIC co-creation laboratory in Madrid has been confirmed as one of only four European test beds responsible for creating and testing proof-of-concept demonstrations for the EU-backed 5G-Transformer project.
Arturo Azcorra represented 5TONIC at the INTO 2018 International Innovation and Tourism Seminar and presented the opportunities that 5G technology offers for innovation and the development of new tourist services.
The 5TONIC team are recently returned from a successful visit to European Microwave Week 2018 (EuMW 2018) - a six day international event that included a special three day (September 25-28) exhibition in Madrid’s IFEMA Congress center.
As 5G prepares for commercial launch, more work is necessary on the use cases that will justify the steep investment required.
The 5TONIC co-creation laboratory recently gave an impressive demonstration of future 5G use cases to Julio Linares Lopez, chair of the GSMA’s strategy group and member of its Board. A group of 5TONIC’s senior executives from the member companies attended the event and presented the latest working examples of how 5TONIC is investigating the potential of 5G technology to drive new use cases in vertical markets.
The 5TONIC 5G co-creation laboratory in Madrid, together with some of its member companies, has been awarded a vital role in three high-profile EU-sponsored 5G development projects. The awards cement the laboratory’s position as one of Europe’s foremost 5G digital innovation centers.
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) pioneer Saguna Networks has become a new collaborator within 5TONIC’s 5G research and co-creation laboratory in Madrid. The company joins existing collaborators that include ASTI Mobile Robotics, IFEMA, Luz Wavelabs, and Rohde & Schwarz.
Handling robots remotely is already a reality that progressively will facilitate and change factory work as we know it.
Arturo Azcorra, IMDEA Networks’ director, vice-president of the 5TONIC Lab and one of the top European experts on the fifth generation of mobile communication networks (5G), discusses in this brief interview various aspects of current networking, with a focus on smart connectivity and the vision of networks as a service.
The 5TONIC co-creation and research laboratory near Madrid, Spain, has collaborated with Autonomously Guided Vehicle (AGV) specialist ASTI Mobile Robotics to launch a series of tests that demonstrate 5G technology could be used to drive AGVs around large factories without the need for pre-set routes or tracks to follow.
