The European Commission's Innovation Radar is an initiative that identifies high-potential innovations and innovators emerging from research and innovation projects funded by the European Union. Innovation Radar helps bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications. This initiative fosters a vibrant ecosystem of European innovators and entrepreneurs, ensuring that ground-breaking research translates into tangible benefits for society. Data underpinning the Innovation Radar stem from periodic survey developed by the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
The first innovation is the Nomadic Node that was designed and implemented by the Smart Internet Lab research team to support the delivery of seamless connectivity and mobility of the services. The other two ground-breaking contributions are a result of collaborative efforts with our project partner, Digital Catapult, in designing an Inter-domain service orchestration platform for automating future networks as well as proposing an intelligent autonomous Profiling method for next generation NFV Orchestrators.
Two of these award-winning innovations are in “Exploring” category, which encompasses early phases of technological readiness, and one is in the “tech-ready” stage, which means that these innovations are progressing on technology development process (e.g. pilots, prototypes, demonstration) to prepare its future commercialisation. All innovations are a result of our participation in the EU-funded H2020 5G-VICTORI project.
Exploring
- Nomadic Node in support of delivering seamless connectivity and mobility of the services, University of Bristol.
- A Novel Autonomous Profiling Method for the NFV Orchestrators. University of Bristol and Digital Catapult.
Tech-ready
- An inter-domain service orchestration platform for automating future networks. University of Bristol and Digital Catapult
Dr Shadi Moazzeni, Lecturer in Networks at the University of Bristol and Bristol Cluster Lead for the 5G-VICTORI project says, “I am incredibly proud that the European Commission's Innovation Radar has recognised the University of Bristol as a 'Key Innovator' within the 5G-VICTORI project, highlighting our pivotal role in the development of three distinct innovations. This recognition underscores the power of collective expertise and reaffirms our commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation in the dynamic landscape of future telecom networks”.
Funded by the European Commission, 5G-VICTORI project (2019-2023) provided enhancements of existing infrastructures towards integration of a large variety of vertical and cross-vertical use-cases. The project aimed to transform current closed, purposely developed and dedicated infrastructures into open environments where resources and functions can be accessed, shared on demand and deployed to compose very diverse set of services in a large variety of ecosystems. It conducted large scale trials for innovative applications across different use cases focusing on Transportation (Railways), Media, Energy and the Factories of the Future (Digital Utilities) as well as use cases that can be applied across technologies such as Digital Mobility.
The 5G-VICTORI consortium is comprised of 26 partners across eight countries and it was led by the Innovations for High Performance microelectronics (IHP) Leibniz-Institut für Mikroelektronik and the Technical Manager was based at the Institute of Accelerating Systems & Applications (IASA)/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dr. Shadi Moazzeni, Lecturer in Networks at the University of Bristol, was the Bristol cluster leader, leading the Bristol cluster activities and project demonstration in the UK.