PRESS RELEASE
Real Wireless part of winning SUSTAIN-6G consortium selected to deliver European 6G sustainability lighthouse project
London, UK - 31 October 2024 - Real Wireless is excited to announce that it is part of the winning consortium that will deliver the SUSTAIN-6G (Sustainability Lighthouse) project, a European initiative focused on advancing sustainability in 6G technology.
The project, led by Nokia, will explore how 6G can address critical sustainability challenges across sectors such as energy smart grids, e-health, telemedicine, and agriculture, providing impactful solutions to meet environmental, economic, and societal needs.
Real Wireless has been selected to lead tasks centred on developing and applying a comprehensive methodology for assessing the sustainability impacts of 6G deployment scenarios and technical innovations within the project. This will include considering the twin themes of ‘sustainable 6G' (i.e. minimising the direct impact of 6G networks and equipment) and ‘6G for sustainability' (i.e. how 6G services can support various sectors to become more sustainable).
In addition, Real Wireless will drive the exploitation activities for SUSTAIN-6G, identifying key innovations and evaluating the potential long-term benefits of new 6G capabilities created by the project's European partners.
Julie Bradford, Head of Techno Economics at Real Wireless said, "We are delighted to continue to represent the UK in groundbreaking European projects such as SUSTAIN-6G. This project builds on Real Wireless' longstanding capability in techno-economic analysis, particularly in evaluating value and sustainability in wireless infrastructure. We look forward to collaborating with the prestigious and thought-leading team of European partners that the SUSTAIN-6G programme brings together."
Other project participants include network equipment and services vendors, communications services providers, industrial equipment manufacturers, European research institutions and universities, and many small and medium-sized enterprises.
SUSTAIN-6G will start in January 2025 and is scheduled to be completed in 2027.
More details about the SUSTAIN-6G focus areas:
- Energy smart grid: The consortium will explore how 6G could be used to create microgrids that manage electricity demand. SUSTAIN-6G will also investigate the use of AI technologies for real-time control of distribution networks. This could lead to more efficient and resilient grids that minimize disruptions while providing the flexibility to draw energy from diverse sources as the world transitions to renewables like solar and wind.
- E-Health and telemedicine: The consortium will generate new ideas on how 6G can make digital health more inclusive. 6G infrastructure could not only provide a far-reaching infrastructure for securely transmitting and analysing medical data, but it also could be the foundation for new home-based online assessment services. These networks could improve the diagnosis and treatment process in underserved communities. Meanwhile, AI could help detect disease outbreaks at early stages.
- Agriculture: The consortium will investigate how 6G connectivity could be allocated on a temporary basis to enable smart agricultural applications that require high bandwidth, sensing, telemetry, data analytics and automation. For instance, 6G's edge cloud capabilities could be harnessed to handle high-priority farming-equipment automation tasks during harvests or provide advanced processing capabilities that integrate data from field sensors, climate stations, soil analysis and satellite imagery to provide contextualized information during the growing season.
For further information on Real Wireless' existing work in sustainability, please visit https://real-wireless.com/topics/sustainability-and-net-zero/
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