Turin will be the capital of 5G during this weekend: today and tomorrow in Palazzo Madama and Piazza Castello new innovative services will be presented, such as a standard car driven remotely, virtual tourism in HD, smart city solutions for optimizing services public, industrial robotics and drones for environmental monitoring.
The new frontiers of fifth generation mobile technology were illustrated by the Councilor for Innovation & Smart City of the City of Turin, Paola pisano, by the Chief Technology Officer of TIM, Elizabeth Romano, by the Director of Strategy, Innovation & Customer Experience of TIM, Mario DiMauro, by the CEO of Ericsson Italia, Federico Rigoni, and by the Councilor for Productive Activities, Innovation and Research of the Piedmont Region, Josephine De Santis.
During the event, in collaboration with Ericsson, TIM switched on the first millimeter-wave 5G antenna in an Italian historic center in Piazza Castello.
"Today in Turin we demonstrated that we are taking big steps towards 5G – said Federico Rigoni, Chief Executive Officer of Ericsson in Italy -. Soon both consumers and industries will be able to benefit from the benefits deriving from the adoption of the fifth generation of mobile networks. In the year of Ericsson's centenary in Italy, this initiative confirms our commitment to the digital transformation of the country and strengthens a long-lasting collaboration with TIM characterized by continuous innovations and firsts".
The event is open to the public and everyone can learn about and experience the potential of the new 5G network through services that will soon be available thanks to the commitment of TIM, which was awarded the best 2,4G frequencies in the competition for 5 billion euros by the Ministry of Economic Development. The initiative strengthens TIM's leadership in the new technology, in an advanced stage of development, with multiple activities undertaken at national level and in the Republic of San Marino leveraging on a network of over 75 partners of excellence, including 8 university centers and research institutions, 40 large companies and 16 public administrations.
"Today in Turin, where our laboratories are based, we have activated the first millimeter wave 5G antenna in the historic centre - he has declared Elizabeth Romano, Chief Technology Officer of TIM -. 5G represents the real revolution that everyone will soon experience in their daily lives: these are applications and services made possible thanks to the quality of TIM's network infrastructure, ready to integrate the 5G technological standards after the technological firsts achieved on virtualization of the network components".
The flagship of the multiple application areas made possible by TIM's new mobile ultrabroadband network and Ericsson's cutting-edge technology is the first car connected and driven remotely on the 5G network . It is a system which, by receiving all the information on the surrounding environment, allows a person to control the vehicle by making it move remotely.
In more detail, the demo, created in collaboration with Objective Software, envisages an area inside Palazzo Madama, where the remote driving position is located with access to the relative video streams coming from outside, and an external area in Piazza Castello where the car moves. In front of the station, visitors can observe or try the experience of remotely driving the car that moves in a protected area of the square or watch live the vehicle that moves independently outside.
The control platform present on the car collects data and multimedia contents in real time from the various sensors, cameras and radars installed, transmitting them to the remote location, making use of the extreme reliability and security of the 5G network in terms of bandwidth for transporting the video stream of the vehicle and latency on sending the data provided. This application will allow the launch of the Smart Road project for the larger-scale experimentation of self-driving cars in some protected areas of the city in the coming months.
"With the absolute preview of the fully remote-driving car on the 5G network - he has declared Mario Di Mauro, Director Strategy, Innovation & Customer Experience of TIM - Turin takes a fundamental step towards the creation of the Gigabit society. The robotics, drones and smart city and virtual reality applications that we are showing the city today will be the drivers for the success of the digital business of the future, increasingly oriented towards connecting things as well as people thanks to the enormous potential of the new 5G ultrabroadband network. In this scenario we will maintain a role of absolute leadership with partners of recognized reliability and with the aim of simplifying the daily lives of our customers who recognize us as a leader in network quality and services compared to our competitors".
