The project consortium, consisting of the Institute for Industrial Information Technology (inIT) at the Technischen Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (TH OWL), the TU Ilmenau, NUROMEDIA GmbH, InnoZent OWL e.V. and Lufthansa Industry Solutions AS GmbH, came together at Lufthansa Industry Solutions' premises in Hamburg. The aim of the meeting was to present the first results of the project to the DLR project management organization as part of a milestone meeting. Fortunately, the first milestone was reached without any restrictions.
Focus of the project: Strengthening the resilience of 5G networks
The project focuses on the development of solutions to strengthen the resilience of 5G networks. The project partner LHIND is presenting an exciting use case from the field of turbine maintenance, namely "Virtual Table Inspection": a visual process for inspecting turbine parts using a mobile camera, which is implemented using a digital platform. The integration of 5G technology enables high-resolution image transmission, whereby high network availability with corresponding quality is of crucial importance.
Practical insights and replication in the SmartFactoryOWL
During their visit to Hamburg, the project participants gained practical insights into the process of an actual inspection. The Lemgo team, consisting of Maxim Friesen, Philip Sehr, Natalia Moriz and Henning Trsek, plans to replicate Lufthansa's use case in the SmartFactoryOWL.
The solutions developed there will be tested under real conditions. The demo scenario at SmartFactoryOWL will be expanded to include an additional radio cell in the existing 5G campus network. A 5G-capable camera system will also be used to transmit video streams to the edge cloud, which will then be evaluated based on defined criteria.
A remote-controlled ground vehicle, equipped with the developed measurement framework and corresponding interfaces, acts as a mobile measurement platform to identify faults in the 5G network.
A software-defined radio (SDR) is used to generate interference signals to test the system's robustness against interference. This setup enables the evaluation of the resilience mechanisms and the measurement framework in a realistic environment in order to validate the effectiveness of the solutions developed for 5G networks.
Henning Trsek summarizes the benefits of the DeSiRe-NG project: "The resilience of 5G networks is of crucial importance in industrial use cases. Our project makes significant contributions to increasing resilience through new methods for resource monitoring at the lower protocol layers."