5G!Drones Athens Trials over the 5GENESIS Athens platform (Efgaleo Stadium & Cosmote Academy)

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Dr Harilaos Koumaras, scientific responsible for Media Networks Laboratory’s H2020 project 5G!Drones, along with representatives from partners Cosmote, HEPTA, CAFA Tech, robots.expert, Municipality of Egaleo and INFOLYSiS conducted technical flight trials with drones in 5G network at the Stavros Mavrothalassitis municipal stadium of Egaleo, on 19-20 October 2020 and on Cosmote Academy premises,on 21 October 2020, in Athens, both locations being part of the 5GENESIS Athens platform..

More information available:
https://www.iit.demokritos.gr/newsevents/5gdrones-feasibility-tests-athens/

5G!Drones project finalized a set of trials at the 5GENESIS Athens platform at COSMOTE premises

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On Wednesday 21st of October, 5G!Drones project finalized a set of trials at the 5GENESIS Athens platform at COSMOTE premises (Cosmote Academy) in Athens, Greece. The trials were executed using the Cosmote Edge server in the context of Use Case #4 (connectivity during crowded events). The main goal was to monitor the interoperability of drones and 5G under specific events. Many partners from 5GENESIS and 5G!Drones projects participated including NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, COSMOTE and INFOLYSiS (from Greece), CAFA Tech (from Estonia), and robots.expert (from Finland). More information and videos will follow. Stay tuned!

Feasibility tests by 5G!Drones project at the Athens 5GENESIS platform

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Feasibility tests were executed by 5G!Drones project at the Athens 5GENESIS platform (Municipal Stadium of Egaleo) for two consecutive days (19-20 Oct 2020). The trials main goal is to test the possibility of offering a better level of network services with drones under 5G and specifically to reduce dropped calls and degraded Internet connectivity during mass events. Many partners from 5GENESIS and 5G!Drones projects participated including NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, COSMOTE, Municipality of Egaleo and INFOLYSiS (from Greece), Hepta Airborne and CAFA Tech (from Estonia), robots.expert (from Finland). More information and videos will follow. Stay tuned!

9th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting photos!

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The 9th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting continued virtual! On the 2nd day of the meeting (3 Sept 2020), the commemorative team photos were also taken but not in the usual way…resulting in a very “colorful photo mosaic” on the GoToMeeting dashboard!

Τhe 9th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting goes virtual!

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5GENESIS 9th GA meeting: Due to the COVID-19 impact and safety restrictions that apply worldwide, the 9th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting goes virtual! It will run for 2 days (2-3 September 2020) discussing the project progress, trial activities, upcoming deliverables, demos and goals to be met during the 3rd phase of the project. Today, the first day of the meeting, the activities of WP3 and WP5 are under discussion among all involved partners. We stay online! We stay safe!

Edge Computing Whitepaper status – TB Meeting

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David Artunedo, Telefónica 5GENESIS partner, presented the current status of the TB white paper on edge computing, mentioning 5GENESIS as one of the core contributing projects, in the e-workshop organized by 5GPPP TB (26-27/5/2020).

3rd day of the 8th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting

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The 8th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting continues virtual! On the 3rd day of the meeting the commemorative team photos were also taken… but not in the usual way!

8th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting goes virtual, (5-7 May 2020)

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Due to the COVID-19 impact and safety restrictions that apply worldwide, the 8th 5GENESIS GA plenary meeting goes virtual! It will run for 3 days (5-7 May 2020) discussing the project progress, trial activities, upcoming deliverables, demos and goals to be met. Today, first day of the meeting, the activities of WP2, WP5 and WP7 are under discussion among all involved partners. We stay online! We stay safe! We keep progressing!

7th 5GENESIS GA Meeting, Madrid, Feb. 18-20

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The 7th 5GENESIS GA Meeting took place in Madrid, Spain from the 18th to the 20th of February 2020. 5GENESIS partners worked together in order to evaluate the project’s current status and to discuss its future actions.

Presentation of “5GENESIS” at the IMOC 2019 Industrial panel

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Dr. Valerio Frascolla (INT) was a panelist to the IMOC Industrial panel presentation “5GENESIS – An open Facility for experiments in 5G-and-beyond systems” at the IMOC 2019 conference(10-14/11/2019) in Aveiro, Portugal.