Bristol's Smart Internet Lab part of multimillion pound project to harness power of 5G

The aim of the project is to demonstrate the enormous benefits 5G can bring to the logistics industry.

13 January 2021

The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has secured over £3m from the Government to test how the country can seize the full benefits of 5G and help businesses harness the power of modern technology.

WECA’s 5G Logistics project programme will develop 5G products and services to support operations at Bristol Port and Gravity Smart Campus and demonstrate a smart and dynamic port environment. The project will focus on security, traceability, and real-time tracking of goods within and across extendable virtual boundaries – and between public and private networks.

The University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab will play a crucial role in the 5G Logistics project by providing the overall project architecture and technology vision development. The lab will lead on the end-to-end technical and system integration design, as well as supporting all work packages related to architecture and technology.

Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, Director of the Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol, said:

“The University is leading on the technology that forms the core of the free port, free economic zones, 5G-enabled use case. With an excellent track record in similar research and innovation projects, together with our know-how in 5G, IoT and AI, we will bring significant expertise to the research and development of the entire project.

“I am very confident we will fulfil our aim which is to demonstrate the enormous benefits 5G can bring to the logistics industry.”

To read the full press release see here.

Further information

The Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol is one of the UK's most renowned Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research centres which addresses grand societal and industrial challenges.

Our 200 experts on 5G radio/wireless, optical communications and networks challenge the complexity of tomorrow's world by fusing research expertise and innovation in a range of research areas such as: IoT, 5G & Beyond, Future Transport Networks, Smart Cities, Autonomous Netoworks, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Network, Convergence, Mobile Edge Computing and Network Softwarization.

Our unique offering across optical, wireless, IoT and cloud technologies enable us to bring together end-to-end network design and optimisation and impact regional, national and global ICT innovations.