Outcomes, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: LTE for Metro Testbed
The final deliverable will be a white paper
presenting the testbed’s solution and
technical recommendation for the rail
industry—including the profile and lessons
learned.
contributing member of the IIC, Huawei
collaborates with the IIC to promote the
application of innovative Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) and
conversations with relevant international
SDOs.
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In addition to metro testbed cases, the IIC
has launched a series of innovative activities
in the smart city field including smart water,
smart building energy saving, traffic
optimization, ambulance and firefighting.
These areas implement technologies in IoT,
networking, big data and cloud computing to
help realize smart transportation, energy
conservation, environmental protection,
clean water supply and efficient and safe
operations. Huawei anticipates collaborating
with other IIC member companies in smart
city-related testbed projects to promote the
research and development of new
technologies and applications in the smart
city field.
The IIC is a world-leading industry
organization that has accumulated a
plethora of experience in the industrial
internet field. Huawei’s industrial internet
goals and concerns led to the development
of the Huawei OpenLab ecosystem lab
where testbeds based on smart city and
metro ecosystems exist in the smart city and
transportation fields and extend to energy,
manufacturing and other industries. The IIC
ecosystem has helped Huawei establish
alliances with other IIC members, such as
China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT), and
the testbed team works together to conduct
technology tests efficiently—using the IIC’s
guidance for operating a testbed and
addressing an existing problem in the field.
Huawei chose partners for the LTE for Metro
Testbed using an end user perspective,
aiming to create and fulfill the role missing in
the end-to-end solution. The testbed team
expects to select more end users and system
integrators in the future to participate in
subsequent testbed projects in an effort to
enhance the maturity of the use cases in
commercial scenarios, as well as to build an
evolving ecosystem under the new network
deployment pattern.
Huawei and its testbed partners have
derived significant value from the IIC
ecosystem. The IIC provides a common
framework, interoperability guidance and
open standards to connect and integrate
devices with people, processes and data
while accelerating the development of the
industrial internet through innovative
business achievements. The consortium
gathers organizations in related industries to
jointly identify, integrate and promote the
best technologies and solutions for the
development of the industrial internet and
digital transformation. As an active
IIC Journal of Innovation
Because the lab test environment for the LTE
for Metro Testbed is quite complex, multiple
stakeholders in the industry chain needed to
work together to deploy the testbed. The
project requires an actual test environment
provided by the metro company, as well as
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