Abstract
5G is being deployed in major cities across the globe. Although the benefits brought by the new 5G air interface will be numerous, 5G is more than just an evolution of radio technology. New concepts, such as the application of network softwarization and programmability paradigms to the overall network design, the reduced latency promised by edge computing, or the concept of network slicing – just to cite some of them – will open the door to new vertical-specific services, even capable of saving more lives. This article discusses the implementation and validation of an eHealth service specially tailored for the Emergency Services of the Madrid Municipality. This new vertical application makes use of the novel characteristics of 5G, enabling dynamic instantiation of services at the edge, a federation of domains and execution of real on-the-field augmented reality. The article provides an explanation of the design of the use case and its real-life implementation and demonstration in collaboration with the Madrid emergency response team. The major outcome of this work is a real-life proof-of-concept of this system, which can reduce the time required to respond to an emergency in minutes and perform more efficient triage, increasing the chances of saving lives.
Highlights
The new generation of mobile communications, 5G, is expected to bring significant improvements on many fronts: enhanced mobile broadband experiences to the end-user, ultra reliable extremely low latencies to enable industry automation, autonomous driving, and massive machine-type communications, which will make the wireless Internet of Things a reality
HEALTH MONITORING AND Augmented Reality (AR) APPLICATIONS In addition to the network services and their orchestration logic, we developed the three applications needed for the 5Genabled personalized health emergency service: (i) the monitoring application providing the heart rate measurements and location of users, (ii) the server application processing the monitored information, deciding if an emergency team has to be deployed and selecting the best one considering different information, and (iii) the AR service, required to compute and stream the information reproduced on the AR headset
The network functions of the different involved network services were deployed at 5TONIC and at CTTC premises in Barcelona, allowing us to resemble a scenario of a mobile operator providing services in Madrid, but having some of their core network entities in Barcelona
Summary
The new generation of mobile communications, 5G, is expected to bring significant improvements on many fronts: enhanced mobile broadband experiences to the end-user, ultra reliable extremely low latencies to enable industry automation, autonomous driving, and massive machine-type communications, which will make the wireless Internet of Things a reality. With the goal of realizing an improved and automatized emergency service, this article proposes a design and realization of a 5G personalized health emergency system It describes a real-life experience of the deployment of a system capable of detecting and responding to emergency situations in an automatic and personalized way, while enriching the tools at hand of the emergency team by enabling the use of AR services at the location of the emergency, thanks to the dynamic network reconfiguration. Kiril Antevski et al.: 5G-based ehealth monitoring and emergency response system work among healthcare professionals, who showed to prefer AR-based documentation systems respect to the current documentation procedures (i.e., books, tablets or smartphones). They only considered scenarios in which the AR application runs locally on the AR device. The study emphasizes the (WiFi) connectivity limitations, especially in the tele-medical support case, and the low battery durability of the AR devices
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