The city of Barcelona has the assets to become a leading 5G hub in Southern Europe, including its role hosting the Mobile World Congress. It offers an open, city-wide 5G lab and testbed for pilots with top companies in various industry verticals. The ecosystem includes operators, infrastructure providers, startups, solution providers, vendors, and R&D centers collaborating on use cases in areas like industry 4.0, healthcare, and mobility. Current pilot projects are testing collaborative robotics, remote surgery using 5G, and connected cars.

2. 5G BARCELONA 1
The city of Barcelona gathers all the necessary elements to
become a reference city and a pioneer 5G Southern Europe hub:
Barcelona & Mobile World Congress Assets to create an open 5G labR&D projects involvement 24/45 5GPPP H2020
Open and neutral city-wide lab
Pilot projects with top-companies within industry verticals
Single Point of Contact for a smooth execution of your activities
Access to labs & real-life environment
Ecosystem of multi-partners & Stakeholders
Co-invest in vertical pilots (PPP)
Co-invest in creating a 5G/IoT Laboratories
Partnership to competitive calls
Access to technical training, seminars, reports & Advisory
Share knowledge and knowhow in 5G arena
Define best practices of pilots
Participate in 5GBarcelona working groups
Adoption &
Validation of 5G
Business
Opportunities
Knowledge
& training
Visibility &
Awareness
Provide visibility to 5G solutions & services
Showcase pilots, use cases @ MWCongress
Export your solutions to generate new opportunities
Participation in sector dynamization activities

3. 5G BARCELONA 2
Operators
Service &
Infrastr.
providers
Start-UPs
& SMEs
End
Users
(B2C) &
Admin
Solution
Providers
(B2B)
Vendors
R&D
centers
ECOSYSTEM USE CASES AREAS

4. 5G BARCELONA 3
Scenarios &
use cases in
progress
Industry 4.0: Collaborative robotics in
advanced manufacturing
Jul 2018  Adaptation of the use case requirements for
robotics/ Internal tests
Sep/Oct. 2018  Deployment of antennas at car factory
Feb 2019  Showcase at MWC19
Health 2.0: Telementoring in connected
operating room
Jul-Dec 2018  Preliminary
Jan 2019  Test telementoring 5G
Feb 2019  Live telementoring in a surgery from MWC19
Mobility 2.0: Connected car
Jul-Sep 2018  Delimit the financing of the use case
Feb 2019  Showcase @ MWC19
Mayo 2019  Showcase @ Automobile 2019
The ThinX 5GBarcelona LAB
Sep. 2018 -> The Thinx Lab launch (IoT/5G Lab)
Enable the testing of new products & services with real IoT/5G network
Open lab to third parties with pre-commercial equipment vendors
MWCB hosts the Open Lab in Pier01 facilities
Launch September 2018
Provide an innovation ecosystem
CURRENT ACTIVITIES

5. MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL 4
Observatorio Nacional 5G
The activities of the ON5G are:
Share experiences of the 5G pilots and use cases executed in Spain,
compiling also relevant 5G international experiences
Contribute to standardization and innovation, allowing to align strategies and
share knowledge through Spain
Assist the Technical Office of the 5G National Plan in its labor to coordinate
public-private synergies in the deployment of 5G networks and services
Publications Events Other activities

6. THANK YOU!
Dr. Sergi Figuerola
CTIO i2CAT
sergi.figuerola@i2cat.net |@sfiguerola
M: +34.675.780.950