Innovation is 5G

At the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW), the responsibility lies in establishing and expanding the sustainable 5G innovation network, which enables sustainable cooperation relationships between the telecommunications, information and user industries. The Wuppertal scientists analyze current 5G development lines and transferability potential, support the development of ideas and accompany application-oriented innovation projects, and are already looking at the next but one mobile communications standard, 6G. As the control center of the competence center, they are also the right contacts for all transfer questions.

The team at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) researches methods and procedures for the development and operation of telecommunications-based applications. A particular focus is on the question of meeting requirements at the interface between classic non-qualitative requirements and requirements for telecommunications services. The UDE application relevance in a variety of industries (insurance, health, waste disposal, trade) helps to examine the potential of 5G with regard to business model innovations.

The TU Dortmund is responsible for setting up and operating a flexible 5G experimental platform, which uniquely enables the implementation of innovative 5G demonstrators “on site” in companies. In addition to the high bandwidths, the focus is particularly on fulfilling quality guarantees for highly reliable and highly scalable communication using 5G network slicing. The team of scientists from Dortmund is investigating the use of the 5G frequencies currently being auctioned and will also test mobile gigabit transmission in the newly developed 5G frequency range at 26 GHz using new, dynamically tracking antennas.

The focus of the scientists at FIR e. V. at RWTH Aachen is the development of possible digitalization opportunities. In the 5G model factory built specifically for this purpose, a platform concept for 5G basic technologies is developed and tested in practice using a systemically agile development approach - the management of information flows is also taken into account. Here, companies are shown which use cases can only be implemented with 5G and what SMEs in particular need to take into account.