The iNGENIOUS project involves 21 organizations from 8 European countries developing next-generation IoT solutions using 5G and edge/cloud computing with a focus on supply chain management. The project contains 6 use cases: automated robots using 5G in factories, advanced asset tracking, and smart data management using AI/ML. Testbeds include factories in Spain and ports in Spain and Italy. The use cases demonstrate applications like remote control of automated robots and AGVs for safety, predictive models to reduce port wait times, and synchronized robotics and AGVs using 5G networks.

1. Nuria Molner – Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
23rd June 2022

2. 1. OVERVIEW
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FRANCE
FINLAND
SPAIN
ITALY
POLAND
GERMANY
LUXEMBOURG
IRELAND
21 organisations coming
from 8 different European
countries
UK
An external Advisory
Board formed by 9
organisations will
provide wider
feedback from
industrial and
communications side

3. 1. OVERVIEW
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iNGENIOUS aims to design and evaluate the NG-IoT solution, with a
particular emphasis on 5G and the development of Edge and Cloud
computing extensions for IoT in addition to providing smart networking
and data management solutions with AI/ML.
6 use cases for the supply chain management:
• Next Generation Automation: Automated robots, Improved driver’s
safety with tactile services.
• Advanced asset tracking: Platforms health monitoring, SAT-IoT inter-
modal asset tracking.
• Smart data management: AI/ML predictive models, DLT-trusted &
interoperable platforms.

4. 2. PROJECT USE CASES
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Next Generation
Automation:
• Factory Use Case
• AGVs Use Case
Advanced wide area
tracking:
• Transport Use Case
• Ship Use Case
Smart information flows:
• Port Entrance Use Case
• DLT Use Case

5. • The Port of Valencia (Spain)
• COSCO Shipping Lines boat (international waters)
• The Port of Livorno (Italy)
• ASTI Mobile Robotics (now ABB) factory (Spain)
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3. iNGENIOUS TESTBEDS, PoCs & DEMOS
OVERVIEW

6. 4. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
FACTORY
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Foresees the use of 5G-enabled multi-
task automated robots in future smart
factory production lines or warehouses,
targeting the interoperability of
wireless and wired environments and
the tactile internet where sensors and
actuators synchronously work with
latencies of few milliseconds.
AUTOMATED ROBOTS WITH
HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

7. 4. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
FACTORY
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Work performed:
• Development of a flexible
PHY/MAC for remote haptic
industrial robot control
• Integration of gNB and 5G
core
AUTOMATED ROBOTS WITH HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

8. • Objective: to interconnect varieties
of sensors and actuators to a
centralized controller running on
the edge.
• Demo with a robotic arm
equipped with a 3D sensor
camera to perform an inspection
operation over an AGV.
• The robotic arm and the AGV will be
synchronized thanks to the 5G
network.
ASTI factory Testbed
4. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
FACTORY
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9. 5. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
PORT ENTRANCE
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Aims to integrate artificial intelligence
to improve the access of vehicles to
ports and reduce the waiting times,
leading to corresponding savings on
direct costs for carriers.
SITUATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
AND PREDICTIVE MODELS IN
SMART LOGISTICS

10. 5. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
PORT ENTRANCE
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Work performed:
• AI algorithms for ports operations
improvements
• Anomaly detection module to
compare the followed path with the
predicted one
SITUATIONAL UNDERSTANDING AND
PREDICTIVE MODELS IN SMART LOGISTICS

11. • Demo:
• Situational understanding: trucks flows
considered predictive models for the TTT
estimation within the Port of Valencia
and Livorno
• tracking trucks inside the port facilities
and gather data to validate the models.
Livorno Port
5. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
PORT ENTRANCE
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12. 6. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
AGVs
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Is a safety-centric use case that
pretends to remotely control
transportation of goods with
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
thanks to tactile internet, edge
computing and immersive enablers
(Mixed-Reality engines, haptic gloves)
so that employees will be safe, away
from hazardous working locations such
as fuel port terminals.
IMPROVE DRIVERS’ SAFETY WITH
MR AND HAPTIC SOLUTIONS

13. 6. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
AGVs
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Work performed:
• Remote driving with immersive
Mixed-Reality (MR) cockpit.
• Autonomous AGVs control with
haptic gloves
IMPROVE DRIVERS’ SAFETY WITH
MR AND HAPTIC SOLUTIONS

14. 6. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
AGVs
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Work performed:
• Remote driving with
immersive Mixed-
Reality (MR) cockpit.
• Autonomous AGVs
control with haptic
gloves
IMPROVE DRIVERS’ SAFETY WITH
MR AND HAPTIC SOLUTIONS

15. • Demos:
• Drivers’ safety:
control AGV remotely
by means of mixed
reality and haptic
solutions.
Valencia Port
6. iNGENIOUS USE CASES
AGVs
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16. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957216
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DAVID GOMEZ-
BARQUERO
dagobar@iteam.upv.es
NURIA MOLNER
numolsiu@iteam.upv.es