Smart City 5G ICT Infrastructure (ART/293CP) | ASTRI - Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited

Project Title:

Smart City 5G ICT Infrastructure (ART/293CP)

Project Reference:

ART/293CP

Project Type:

Platform

Project Period:

03 / 02 / 2020 - 02 / 02 / 2022

Funds Approved (HK$’000):

17,213.016

Project Coordinator:

Mr Ka-Ho Alex MUI

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Sponsor:

Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited (Sponsor)
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Contract Sevice) (Sponsor)

Description:

In the Hong Kong Smart City blue-print, 5G has been defined as an important element in the Smart City Infrastructure to enable smart city applications demanding high bandwidth, massive internet-of-things and low latency communications. To enable Smart City applications using 5G involves not only deployment of base stations, but also an architecture with the ability to flexibly build applications that can leverage 5G connectivity. The project aims to research, define, develop and deploy the Smart City infrastructure enabled by 5G, including: - flexible sharing of resources (computing and network) between access edge, data center edge and centralized cloud; - flexible reuse of network and computing infrastructure to support multiple applications; and - service orchestration to allow data sharing between data sources (e.g. camera/sensors). The project team will focus on considering the deployment and application scenarios for Hong Kong specifically, including considering the potential use cases and application scenarios including Smart Mobility and Smart Government.

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Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under five Technology Divisions: Advanced Electronic Components and Systems; Artificial Intelligence and Trust Technologies; Communications Technologies; Innovative Mind; and IoT Sensing and AI Technologies. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

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