More safety and sustainability in road traffic thanks to 5G technology

At the final event of the BMDV-funded 5GoIng project, which was launched in December 2021, the project partners presented the results of their research. They gave an impressive demonstration of how vehicles and traffic infrastructure can communicate in real time and warn road users of dangers at an early stage. The project developed innovations such as 5G-controlled LED lighting, which can increase the safety of crosswalks, and a new dashboard for live traffic analysis. 5GoIng also created a digital test field that is available as a platform for testing and further developing new mobility technologies.

In the research project, the Fraunhofer Application Center “Connected Mobility and Infrastructure” in Ingolstadt was in charge of setting up the basic infrastructure, installing sensors, IT and communication systems and implementing the test field. The project work focused on infrastructure-side data communication as well as sensor data processing and fusion.