News Desk: New autonomous transport technology developed by AutoAir.
The AutoAirutoAir project created a testbed with high data bandwidth around its track to trial the development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) at its proving ground, Millbrook. This also acts as a testbed to trial the potential use of 5G connectivity on roads and rail to tackle poor mobile coverage.
The project developed the UK’s only independent 5G-enabled infrastructure for CAVs. The project deployed a hyper-dense small cell network using a ‘neutral host’ model using 4G, with O2 and a private network at Millbrook to share the same infrastructure, but using different networks. This was an important step forward towards providing alternative and cheaper connectivity solutions in future projects. It successfully launched its 5G test network in February 2019, showing a transmission of live 4K video at 1Gbps from fast-moving vehicles, to a screen on a bus. This was achieved using 23 small cells that were installed on the site. Having a small-medium enterprise company develop the hardware as part of the testbed’s consortium helped stimulate and support the UK supply chain. It is challenging and expensive to roll out 5G on roads and rail. This is why the 5G Programme is exploring this further in our current projects, 5G Connected Autonomous Logistics (5G CAL) in Sunderland and 5G Logistics in Bristol.
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