This project has received funding from

the European Union’s Horizon 2020

research and innovation program under

grant agreement n° 101016912.

Disclaimer: This Newsletter reflects the Smart5Grid consortium

view, and the European Commission (or the 5G-Public Private

Partnership) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the

information it contains.

NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #3

‘Demonstration of 5G solutions for SMART energy

GRIDs of the future’

JULY-SEPTEMBER 2021

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

➢ Issue Highlights

➢ Communications & Dissemination Activities

➢ 5G-PPP Activities

➢ Period Deliverable

➢ Upcoming Deliverable

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

The third issue of Smart5Grid Newsletter presents the project’s activities during the third

trimester July-September 2021. This specific issue, focuses on a variety of dissemination

activites including presentations and two exhibitions (MWC 2021 & 5G World Summit),

the 5G-PPP Activities and the Period and Upcoming Deliverables.

In numbers, the activities of Smart5Grid during this 3 month period are:

➢ 2 Exhibitions

➢ 2 Presentations

➢ 1 Webinar

➢ 1 Article presenting the

project

➢ 5G-PPP Activities

➢ 1 Period Deliverable

➢ 1 Upcoming Deliverable

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Communication & Dissemination Activities

Smart5Grid project was successfully represented

by Nearby Computing partner in MWC 2021,

which took place in Barcelona, on the 28th of June

-1st of July, attracting the interest of the visitors on

the Smart5Grid use cases and the concept of

NetApps. MWC attracts some of the most

influential decision makers in the world. It’s where

2,400 leading companies and trailblazers share the

latest topics relevant to the future. For more

information you can follow this link.

Exhibition

Exhibition

5G World summit was held in London, on the

21st-23rd of September. A 5G World Event, ‘where

conversations that shape the industry take place’.

Smart5Grid’s partner, Athonet, attended the

event with a booth, as a Βronze sponsor. The

booth visitors could be informed about Athonet’s

involvement in research and innovation projects

funded by the European Commission and see the

last innovations brought by Athonet to the 5G

ecosystem, including solutions exploited within

the framework of Smart5Grid. Mr. Nanda Menon,

Director – Corporate development at Athonet and

CEO of Athonet UK, gave a speech on the Athonet

solutions for 5G and a demo. For more

information about the event follow this link.

session.

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Presentation

Dr. Irina Ciornei from UCY – KIOS CoE, participated at 5G-PPP Trials WG Plenary Meeting held online on July, 5,

2021 and represented Smart5Grid project. At this meeting, after an overview of the activities of the Trials WG,

there were three presentations about trials in newly started projects, including Smart5Grid. The Smart5Grid

presentation focused on the overall vision and goals of the project and briefly introduced the four use-cases

(demos) from the business perspective.

Presentation

ESO/EAD Partner represented the Smart5Grid project in

the Annual Energy Forum 2021, which took place in

Sofia, on 7-10th September. Mr. Daniel Shangov and Mr.

Krasimir Vlachkov, presented an overview about

Smart5Grid project during the plenary session

organized by the Scientific and Technical Union of

the Power Engineers in Bulgaria. The presentation

highlighted, Smart5Grid’s vision and main goals, the

Platform, as well as all 4 Use Cases with a special

emphasis on Use Case 3 and Use Case 4, which will take

place in Bulgaria and in Greek-Bulgarian cross borders

respectively. There was a description of their key aspects

and how the 5G paradigm can supplement and

contribute to achieving a more reliable, flexible,

predictable, and manageable grid in the context of

ever-growing RES penetration, including distributed

generation, prosumer & demand-side management

(DSM), and potential market aspects involved.

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Webinar

On the 22nd of September, a joint webinar, on ‘5G Tests and Pilots’, organized by 5G-IA, and India’s equivalent

organization, TSDSI. Smart5Grid partners were invited to present the vision of the project and some testing

results as part of the Smart Grids panel, which was formed from only few “hot verticals” which were selected

as per interest: 5G Smart Grids, 5G Smart City, 5G Broadcast, and 5G Media production.

The presentation from the Smart5Grid consortium, titled “From NRG-5 Trials to Smart5Grid”, and presented

by Antonello Corsi (Engineering), Irina Ciornei (Kios, University of Cyprus), and Daniele Porcu (Enel

GI&N), started by explaining the lesson learned from NRG-5 project, which focused on PMUs virtualization

using VNF and validating the performances of 5G with comparison of 4G and Ethernet (set as benchmark).

Then, Smart5Grid has been introduced, highlighting the main evolutions from NRG-5:

1. Both Telco and Energy infrastructures are real and not simulated,

2. Smart5Grid approach is based on NetApps, that has been defined as a chain of one or more VNFs, that

can run on the Edge or somewhere in the Cloud, according to the need on performances.

3. Testbeds will be exploited by third-party experimenters, who will be facilitated by an Automatic

Validation and Verification Framework, included in the Smart5Grid architecture.

As a conclusion of the presentation, the business value of some use cases was briefly summarized, e.g. the

saving in Fiber Optic installation for covering wide areas monitoring or the increase of performance in using

virtual components (as also demonstrated in NRG-5) and/or the opportunity for standardization, e.g. in

aggregating Distributed Power Generation Resources, where there will be less and less need for dedicated

devices, by moving the computational power in the Edge/Cloud.

For more information about the presentation follow this link.

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More information about the related Smart5Grid activities can be found in the dedicated communication and

dissemination pages at Smart5Grid Website Communication and Dissemination.

Article

Smart5Grid project’s overview was presented on IEEE ComSoc

“COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND MODELLING

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE” Newsletter (June 2021). The leading partner was

Nearby Computing (NBC) and more partners contributed to this article. You can

read more about it here on page 13.

European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond Brochure

The latest Networld Europe SME brochure is now available and introduces INFOLYSiS, 8BELLS, UBITECH,

UBIWHERE and NEARBY COMPUTING, describing their background, achievements, and their plans for future

development. The leading partner of this activity was INFOLYSIS, as member of SME WG on behalf of

Smart5Grid project, and rest partners also contributed to this brochure.

Access it and find also SMEs related to Smart5Grid project. Find it online here.

The European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond Brochure introduces 8Bells, Fogus, INFOLYSiS, and Internet Institute, 4

EVOLVED-5G SMEs, describing their background, achievements, and FoF cooperation.

The latest #Networld SME brochure, where you can find the SMEs related to EVOLVED-5G project, among others, is now

available! Access it and find more information, online, here.

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5G-PPP Activities

5G-PPP Newsletter Issue 24

The latest Newsletter Issue (July-August 2021) of 5G-PPP is available at the 5G-PPP official website:

➢ https://5g-ppp.eu/newsletter-25-july-august-2021/

On the 16th of September, INFOLYSiS, Smart5Grid partner and SME WG member, attended the

NetworldEurope SME Working Group and the SME WG-European Digital SME Alliance workshop on 5G,

Edge Computing and IoT topics.

The Smart5Grid YouTube Introductory Video was referenced

in the 5G-PPP website. You can access it here.

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5G-PPP Newsflash Issues

The latest newsflash issues of 5G-PPP are available online and can be found in the following links:

➢ Newsflash Issue 62 (July 2021):

https://5g-ppp.eu/newsflash-july-2021/

➢ Newsflash Issue 63 (August 2021):

https://5g-ppp.eu/newsflash-august-2021/

5G-IA Workshop

5G-IA organized a Workshop “Smart Networks and Services Info Session” which took place on

11th June, during the EuCNC 2021 & 6G Summit. This workshop aimed to explain the scope,

objectives and structure of the European partnership on Smart Networks and Services (SNS), part

of the Commission proposal for a Council

regulation establishing the Joint Undertakings

under Horizon Europe. You may find more

information by following this link.

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Period Deliverables

D2.2 Overall Architecture, Design, Technical Specifications and Technology Enablers [M9]

(Public): This deliverable is led by ATOS partner, and it is about the Overall Architecture Design,

Technical Specifications and Technology Enablers.

Upcoming Deliverable

D7.3 Dissemination, Communication, Preliminary Exploitation and Standardization report

[M12] (Public): This deliverable is led by INF partner, and it’s aim is to report all the dissemination

and communication activities which took place during the 1st year of the project along with

Exploitation and Standardization progress.

All public Smart5Grid deliverables are available for

downloading at Smart5Grid website:

https://smart5grid.eu/dissemination-activities/deliverables/.

GA ID: 101016912

Topic: ICT-41-2020

Duration: 36 Months

Start Date: 1 January 2021

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