{"id":519,"date":"2019-10-26T12:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=519"},"modified":"2019-10-26T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:18:13","slug":"rural-dorset-seeks-funds-for-5g-testbeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/10\/26\/rural-dorset-seeks-funds-for-5g-testbeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Dorset seeks funds for 5G testbeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday marked the culmination of eight fairly intense weeks as we submitted our bid to the Rural Connected Communities<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a summary of the proposal that our consortium of local, national and multi-national partners, which we have called 5G RuralDorset, has put forward to Government.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will address the cost and design challenges of using common wireless infrastructure at national scale to deliver services to rural communities. This will be evaluated by three service providers and across four different test-beds that respond to the needs of those living, working and visiting rural and coastal regions of Dorset and beyond.<\/p>\n

Rural 5G Testbed \u2013<\/strong> rural communities are poorly serviced by wireless connectivity. We will deploy a wide-area 5G wireless testbed allowing businesses and academia to prove the sustainable commercial case for improved 5G connectivity in rural locations. We will place new wireless technology on existing masts and fibre owned and operated by internet service provider Wessex Internet<\/a> allowing rapid deployment on a significant scale. The resulting connectivity will support uses in agriculture and provide access to digital services tackling rural issues including isolation and social care needs. This will show that existing and new infrastructure can be combined to deliver next generation connectivity more affordably.<\/p>\n

Connected Coast \u2013<\/strong> the UK\u2019s coastal regions generate significant economic wealth and support a range of leisure activities that boost health and well-being. But the coast can be dangerous. There are serious challenges communicating in such regions, with the first responder community and organisations including the RNLI, Maritime and Coastguard Agency and General Lighthouse Authority having very limited access to digital communications services. We will deploy a 5G services test-bed in the Lulworth Cove area and a further maritime safety test-bed on infrastructure along the coast. We will trial digital applications that engage with the public and improve the responsiveness of emergency services to incidents. We will evaluate the upgrade of existing infrastructure around the coast and develop the social and economic case for deployment, considering additional use cases from tourism and aquaculture to education and healthcare.<\/p>\n

5G Innovation Testbed \u2013<\/strong> we will build an advanced connectivity testbed at the heart of Dorset Innovation Park<\/a>, a Local Enterprise Zone and advanced-engineering centre which already supports large and small companies that develop innovative connected products and services. This testbed will be connected to other sites in the UK and focus on wide-area connectivity solutions for rural and coastal regions. It will support businesses operating in the county and across the supply chain to test and develop products before deployment in a collaborative and secure way in this strategically important location.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all the local and national organisations which provided letters of support for our bid.\u00a0 We should know whether we have been successful by Christmas.<\/p>\n

5G: The potential in rural Dorset<\/a><\/p>\n

What is 5G?<\/a><\/p>\n

Industrial Internet of Things<\/a><\/p>\n

Challenges of a 5G build<\/a><\/p>\n

Public Health Dorset statement on possible health concerns<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in staying up to date with our bid to Government and the latest digital news from Dorset then\u00a0follow us on twitter<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0sign up for our e-newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday marked the culmination of eight fairly intense weeks as we submitted our bid to the Rural Connected Communities competition. Here\u2019s a summary of the proposal that our consortium of local, national and multi-national partners, which we have called 5G RuralDorset, has put forward to Government. Summary We will address the cost and design challenges… Read more Rural Dorset seeks funds for 5G testbeds<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2019\/07\/5G.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}