6G-DATADRIVEN project for the development of 6G technology starts
Project coordinated by UC3M
6/12/23
The objectives of 6G-DATADRIVEN, a Spanish national scientific project of the UNICO R+D 6G programme that has recently been launched, led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), are to promote the "(r)evolution" of the industrial sector towards safer, more resilient and sustainable manufacturing through its automation and personalised reaction to emergency situations.
Companies with extensive experience in the telecommunications sector, such as ABB, Capgemini, Ericsson, Telcaria and Telefónica, will work alongside UC3M to design future communications networks (B5G and 6G) within the framework of this project. One of its main lines of research tries to maximise data use, using industrial manufacturing processes and emergency response as areas of application. The validation tasks will be carried out at 5TONIC, the open research and innovation laboratory on 5G technologies founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks.
In this context, the NETCOM group of UC3M’s Telematics Engineering Department recently held the first synchronisation meeting of the six subprojects that make up 6G-DATADRIVEN, together with the companies that participate in it. In the meeting, which took place on the Leganés Campus, UC3M lecturer and project coordinator, Carlos J. Bernardos, presented the project’s vision, outlined the steps to follow and developed synergies between the project’s partners.
“The 6G-DATADRIVEN project provides us with an exceptional opportunity to work on the development and evaluation of the technologies that will shape future 6G networks, together with the most relevant Spanish companies in the sector. This will catalyze industrial innovation in 5G and 6G in Spain, as well as UC3M’s leading position in 5G and 6G network research activities”, says Carlos J. Bernardos.
This proposal is one of the pillars for the deployment of advanced 5G and 6G technologies of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the Spanish economy (PRTR, in its Spanish acronym). The UNICO R+D 6G 2023 programme is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU Recovery Fund to promote convergence, resilience and transformation in the European Union.
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