AutoAir

Lead organisation: Airspan Communications Ltd Grant: £4.1m

AutoAir will aim to make 5G technologies available for the validation and development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) at the UK’s premiere vehicle proving ground at Millbrook. Fast travel speeds complicate cell-tower handoff, and autonomous vehicles will require more network bandwidth than is available currently. It will also investigate how these 5G connectivity solutions could be transferable to both road and rail transportation.

We are delighted to have won the UK’s 5G competition, as it further validates the 5G network solutions and associated toolsets that Airspan and its partners have created. 5G networks will be critical for the validation and operation of CAVs and the testbed will be both a showcase and blueprint for mass deployment of 5G along the UK’s transport corridors.

Paul Senior, Chief Strategy Officer, Airspan Networks and CEO of Dense Air 

The project is based on the accelerated development of 5G small cells operating in both licensed Sub 6 GHz and mmWave bands on a shared ‘neutral host’ platform which allows multiple public and private 5G operators to simultaneously use the same infrastructure using network slicing.

This video presents automotive applications of 5G with a focus on solving the challenges of deploying a hyper-dense small cell network, demonstrating the economic case for neutral host networks, delivering data rates in excess of 1 Gigabit per second to fast moving vehicles, development and trial of innovative technology for 5G networks. 

For more information, or if you have any questions about this video please contact Peter Claydon at: pclaydon@denseair.net