Deutsche Telekom is collaborating with global Ecosystem partners, including BMW, Valeo, 5GAA Alliance partners, and CAMARA Alliance partners to design, develop, test, and launch use cases for the automotive industry with 5G connectivity. This edition covers two automotive uses that Deutsche Telekom has demonstrated/launched with BMW and Valeo. Additionally, we cover the challenges and how they are mitigating them with the global ecosystem partners.
Use Case Overview
Deutsche Telekom demonstrated the Automated Valet Parking (AVP) use case in partnership with BMW Group and Valeo in a public parking garage in the center of Munich. A BMW driver drops his car at the entrance of a parking garage. The car is then driven automatically without any human interaction to the next free parking space. The BMW is controlled by the backend from Valeo, which connects over the public 5G network of Deutsche Telekom, enabling quality of service measures.
Benefits
Ecosystem partners and solution
Deutsche Telekom provided the public 5G network and tailored network APIs to fulfill the necessary requirements with quality on demand. The data packets are transferred with always the same delay even under high load conditions (stable low latency), or the bandwidth is kept on the same level even under high load (stable bandwidth). Moreover, during the BMW car maneuvering the data, the connection is prioritized against other data connections in the same mobile cell.
BMW car is controlled by the backend from Valeo, which connects over the public 5G network of Deutsche Telekom. Valeo installed the systems in the parking infrastructure itself to enable the AVP use case and tested the 5G interfaces with Deutsche Telekom to validate the capacities of the 5G cellular network. 5G Network Slicing with integrated APIs will be a future option to fulfill these requirements in a customer-adaptable way.
Why 5G?
For the AVP use case, communication between infrastructure and cars is a safety-critical element and requires high reliability and low latency. DT’s public 5G network delivers high reliability and stable low latency to ensure the necessary safety requirements for this use case.
Outcome & Outlook
The results are convincing: cars are controlled by the system, with absolute stability and security and great advantages compared to WLAN technologies.
To ensure a seamless experience across different networks and European countries, Deutsche Telekom initiated the recently launched CAMARA project together with ecosystem partners. CAMARA project is a global API alliance with the objective to create common network APIs and address enterprise customer demand.
Further examples of new network capabilities exposed via APIs are already identified: for example, To track a device’s location, which can be used to locate drones or other IoT devices. Remote activation of low-energy sensors which are in standby mode. Dynamically adapting the needs of applications to variable network conditions, e.g., streaming a video in SD quality when network load is high and going back to HD stream as soon as the capacity is there. This ensures a smooth video streaming user experience.
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